Jerry Only
Jerry Only
Jerry Onlyis an American musician, well known as the bassist for the Misfits and later the vocalist as well...
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth21 April 1959
CityLodi, NJ
held joey johnny ramones
The Ramones went through a couple different line-up changes, and Johnny and Joey held through the whole thing. So right now I'm the only one hanging in there.
crooked dragged goes list
We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.
dime
Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.
bands ramones
We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
dealing hard hit metallica somebody time
If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.
buy cd kids packaging sell
The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10 kids can burn them. So you have to really be on your toes.
discovered obviously
I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.
best job possibly
My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.
hated locked music
I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.
based bunch good great money music people pursuit songs together
Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.
everybody kidding realized situations
There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.
cost funds gig last misfits money paid work
The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.
roles
We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.
horse hour manhattan northern riding ski slope town
We're about an hour out of Manhattan up in northern NJ. We've got a ski slope in our town and horse riding and all that kind of stuff.