Editing Dee Dee Ramone (section)

===Later music projects===
In 1987, before leaving the Ramones, Dee Dee embarked on a brief [[hip hop]] career as rapper "Dee Dee King" with the album ''[[Standing in the Spotlight]]''. Dee Dee had recorded "[[Funky Man (Dee Dee King song)|Funky Man]]" as Dee Dee King in 1987. Music critic Matt Carlson wrote that the album "will go down in the annals of [[popular culture|pop culture]] as one of the worst recordings of all time".<ref>{{cite web|last=Carlson |first=Matt |url={{AllMusic|class=album |id=r10919 |pure_url=yes}} |title=Standing in the Spotlight – Dee Dee King |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=July 20, 2011}}</ref> After the album failed, he returned to punk rock with various short-lived projects such as Sprocket (which also featured Richard 'The Atomic Elf' Bacchus of [[D Generation]] and the Spikey Tops). In 1987 Dee Dee wrote and produced a song called "Baby Doll" for [[the Chesterfield Kings]] ("Baby Doll"/"I Cannot Find Her", acoustic version 1987, Mirror Records, later recorded by American rock and roll band [[The Connection (band)|the Connection]], on their album ''New England's Newest Hit Makers'').
Months after he left the Ramones, in the fall of 1989, Dee Dee already performed songs such as "Poison Heart" and "Main Man" (later to be recorded by the Ramones) with his band the Spikey Tops.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://collectorsfrenzy.com/details/390476699720/DEE_DEE_RAMONE_And_The_Spikey_Tops_Street_Animal_112589_NM_LP_RAMONES |title=Dee Dee Ramone & The Spikey Tops – Street Animal, November 1989 |access-date=November 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105090723/http://collectorsfrenzy.com/details/390476699720/DEE_DEE_RAMONE_And_The_Spikey_Tops_Street_Animal_112589_NM_LP_RAMONES |archive-date=November 5, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1991, Dee Dee was briefly involved with transgressive punk rock singer-songwriter [[GG Allin]], playing the guitar with Allin's backup band [[the Murder Junkies]]. His involvement lasted approximately one week, enough for him to be briefly interviewed during the filming of [[Todd Phillips]]' Allin documentary ''[[Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies]]''. In the film, Dee Dee reveals that he was unaware of the band's name, even after joining. Rehearsal recordings of him with Allin and the Murder Junkies appears on the ''Hated'' soundtrack, as well as on the posthumous live Allin compilation ''Res-Erected''. Video footage of the rehearsals is available on DVD through Allin's estate's website.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ggallin.com |title=Official Site of the True King of Rock and Roll |publisher=GG Allin |access-date=July 20, 2011}}</ref> Dee Dee never actually played a live gig with the band.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.staythirstymedia.com/1206media/HTML/1206merleallin.html |title=Thirsty : December 2006 : Merle Allin Featured Interview |publisher=Staythirstymedia.com |access-date=July 20, 2011}}</ref>

In 1992, Dee Dee formed another short-lived project named [[Dee Dee Ramone and the Chinese Dragons]], which was followed by the most successful of his post-Ramones projects, a group named [[Dee Dee Ramone I.C.L.C.]] (Inter-Celestial Light Commune), which lasted from 1994 to 1996. The group featured New York City bassist [[John Carco]] (formerly of [[Queens]] [[New York hardcore|hardcore]] group Misguided) who befriended Dee Dee when the two attended [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] meetings together during the summer of 1992. After writing more than a dozen songs and recording several demos for an upcoming Ramones album with producer [[Daniel Rey]], Dee Dee decided to keep the material for his new band. After working with several drummers and playing several live shows in the New York City area, Dee Dee and Carco moved to [[Amsterdam]] to record a four-song [[Extended play|EP]] and fourteen-track album for [[Rough Trade Records]]. ''[[I Hate Freaks Like You]]'' was released on April 17, 1994. It features [[Nina Hagen]] on two of the album's fourteen tracks. The three-piece line up now consisted of Dee Dee (vocals, guitar), Carco (bass, vocals), and Dutch drummer Danny Arnold Lommen.

I.C.L.C. would go on to promote the ''I Hate Freaks Like You'' album by touring 22 countries over a 10-month period.<ref name="auto2">{{cite web|url=http://ramones.kauhajoki.fi/gigs/deedee/barbara.html |title=Ramones: Interview With Barbara Zampini |publisher=Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone |access-date=July 20, 2011}}</ref> In January 1995, the group had completed their 10-month tour and returned to their headquarters in [[Amsterdam]] to begin recording a second album. The group was soon dropped, however, by their record label, Rough Trade World Service. With this development, bassist John Carco left the group and moved to Los Angeles where he formed and played with Frankie O. and [[Pete Stahl]] (singer of D.C.H.C. group [[Scream (band)|Scream]]) in the group Metro. Carco would later pursue an acting career. Songs written by Dee Dee and Carco for the never-released second I.C.L.C. album would appear on the Ramones' final album ''[[¡Adios Amigos!]]''. One of these songs, "Born to Die in Berlin", appeared as the final song on the final Ramones' album, and featured Dee Dee singing in German on the bridge of the song. "Fix Yourself Up" was recorded by Dee Dee on the album ''[[Zonked]]''.

Dee Dee formed a Ramones' tribute band called [[the Ramainz]] with his wife Barbara ("Barbara Ramone", bass) and former Ramones' member Marky (drums). They recorded an album, ''Live in NYC'', released in Argentina and many other countries, and played a couple of times with [[C.J. Ramone]].

Dee Dee also recorded several solo albums. ''[[Zonked!]]'', the first album release under the Dee Dee Ramone moniker, was retitled ''Ain't It Fun?'' for the European release. Other than the addition of the bonus track "Please Kill Me", the releases are the same the line-up for this album was Dee Dee Ramone on guitars and lead vocals, Marky Ramone on drums, longtime partner Daniel Ray producing and on guitars, and Barbara "Ramone"/Zampini on bass and lead vocals. Guests included Joey Ramone singing lead on "I am seeing UFOs", and [[the Cramps]]' vocalist [[Lux Interior]] doing so on "Bad Horoscope".

The second solo album was called ''[[Hop Around]]''; the line-up consisted of Dee Dee Ramone, Barbara Ramone/Zampini, [[Chris Spedding]] on guitars and Billy Rogers on drums. Dee Dee also released ''[[Greatest & Latest (Dee Dee Ramone album)|Greatest & Latest]]'', with Barbara, Spedding and Chase Manhattan on drums. This album consisted of re-recordings of Ramones songs, a re-recorded solo song ("Fix Yourself Up", originally from ''Zonked!''/''Ain't It Fun?''), cover-songs and an unreleased new solo-song ("Sidewalk Surfin'").

In the 21st century, Dee Dee teamed up with [[Paul Kostabi]], leader of the [[hardcore punk]] band [[Youth Gone Mad]] and former guitarist for [[White Zombie (band)|White Zombie]]. An established artist, Kostabi was instrumental in getting Dee Dee's new career as a painter off the ground. Together with Barbara, the trio collaborated on several hundred works that sold quickly for a few hundred dollars each. In 2012, the tenth anniversary of Dee Dee's death was observed by a show at a prominent art gallery in California.<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=http://deedeeramone.com/archives/DeeDeeBirthday2012.html |title=Happy Birthday Dee Dee Ramone! |publisher=Deedeeramone.com |access-date=July 3, 2013}}</ref>

On [[Halloween]], 1998, while staying at the [[Hotel Chelsea]], Dee Dee and Zampini met the Hollywood band SEXYCHRIST, which featured adult film star [[Kurt Lockwood]]. Lockwood encouraged them to move to Hollywood, and together the two bands shared a successful tour of the U.S. in early 1999. Afterwards, Dee Dee formed the Dee Dee Ramone Band, with members including [[Christian Martucci]] (vocals and guitar), Anthony Smedile (drums), Chase Manhattan (drums), and [[Stefan Adika]] (bass). With the exception of one show at the Spa Club in NYC and a Club Makeup performance, this would be his last touring band. Dee Dee would release a book, entitled ''Legend of a Rock Star, A Memoir: The Last Testament of Dee Dee Ramone'', written while on tour in Europe in 2001.<ref>{{cite book |last= Ramone |first= Dee Dee |title= Legend of a Rock Star, A Memoir: The Last Testament of Dee Dee Ramone |publisher= Thunder's Mouth Press, formerly [[Four Walls Eight Windows]] |year= 2002 |isbn=978-1-56025-389-1 }}</ref>

Dee Dee later moved to California, where he continued to make music and pursued an acting career. He was  unsuccessful as an actor but landed a major role in the 2002 low-budget film ''Bikini Bandits''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361394/|title=Bikini Bandits|date=November 12, 2002|via=IMDb}}</ref> He contributed the song "In a Movie" to the film's soundtrack, featuring his wife Barbara on lead vocals.

His next album, a live album produced by [[Gilby Clarke]] (formerly of [[Guns N' Roses]]) would have been recorded on June 12, 2002, at Hollywood's Key Club, but plans fell through. [[Bootleg recording|Bootleg]]s of the Dee Dee Ramone Band exist, amongst them ''Live in Milan, Italy''. Dee Dee's final studio recordings were released by [[tREND iS dEAD! records|Trend iS dEAD! records]] as the 2002 album ''[[Youth Gone Mad featuring Dee Dee Ramone]]''. He also worked with the band Terrorgruppe.