High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tommy Ramone, also known as Thomas Erdelyi (born Erdélyi Tamás; January 29, 1949), is a Hungarian American record producer and musician. He is the last surviving original member of the pioneering punk rock band The Ramones. Erdélyi was born to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. He grew up in Forest Hills, a neighborhood of New York City's Queens borough. Tommy and guitarist John Cummings (later to be dubbed "Johnny Ramone") performed together in a mid-60's four-piece garage band called the Tangerine Puppets while in high school. In 1970, the then 21-year-old Erdelyi was a studio intern for the production of the Jimi Hendrix album Band of Gypsys.