The Stems: Not a Monumental Achievement
The Saints, after hearing the Ramones, reportedly, figured the New Yorkers had ripped them off.
Apart from that being a weird and endlessly hilarious commentary on how the dissemination of media’s changed in the last forty years, there’s really no way to figure out who did what first. It’s too much to figure that anyone involved with the Ramones or the Saints cataloged dates for initial practices or impromptu jam sessions.
