<P> The band's logo was created by New York City artist Arturo Vega together with the Ramones . Vega was a longtime friend who had allowed Joey and Dee Dee to move into his loft . Vega produced the band's T - shirts, their main source of income, basing most of the images on a black - and - white self - portrait photograph he had taken of his American bald eagle belt buckle which had appeared on the back sleeve of the Ramones' first album . He was inspired to create the band's logo after a trip to Washington, D.C.: </P> <P> I saw them as the ultimate all - American band . To me, they reflected the American character in general--an almost childish innocent aggression...I thought,' The Great Seal of the President of the United States' would be perfect for the Ramones, with the eagle holding arrows--to symbolize strength and the aggression that would be used against whomever dares to attack us--and an olive branch, offered to those who want to be friendly . But we decided to change it a little bit . Instead of the olive branch, we had an apple tree branch, since the Ramones were American as apple pie . And since Johnny was such a baseball fanatic, we had the eagle hold a baseball bat instead of the (Great Seal)'s arrows . </P> <P> The scroll in the eagle's beak originally read "Look out below", but this was soon changed to "Hey ho let's go" after the opening lyrics of the band's first single, "Blitzkrieg Bop". The arrowheads on the shield came from a design on a polyester shirt Vega had bought . The name "Ramones" was spelled out in block capitals above the logo using plastic stick - on letters . Where the presidential emblem read "Seal of the President of the United States" clockwise in the border around the eagle, Vega instead placed the pseudonyms of the four band members: Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, and Tommy . Over the years the names in the border would change as the band's line - up fluctuated . </P> <P> The Ramones had a broad and lasting influence on the development of popular music . Music historian Jon Savage writes of their debut album that "it remains one of the few records that changed pop forever ." As described by AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, "The band's first four albums set the blueprint for punk, especially American punk and hardcore, for the next two decades ." Trouser Press's Robbins and Isler similarly wrote that the Ramones "not only spearheaded the original new wave / punk movement, but also drew the blueprint for subsequent hardcore punk bands". Punk journalist Phil Strongman writes, "In purely musical terms, the Ramones, in attempting to re-create the excitement of pre-Dolby rock, were to cast a huge shadow--they had fused a blueprint for much of the indie future ." Writing for Slate in 2001, Douglas Wolk described the Ramones as "easily the most influential group of the last 30 years ." </P>

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