Reinhardt joined the Ramones in February 1983 before the release of "Subterranean Jungle", and appears in two music videos from that album, although he did not play on the record itself. In his first months with the group he broke the tradition of adopting the Ramones surname and instead performed under the stage name Richie Beau. However, by the time of his first recordings with the band he had switched to the name Richie Ramone. He played on the Ramones albums "Too Tough to Die", "Animal Boy" and "Halfway to Sanity" and appears on their compilation albums "Greatest Hits", "" and "Weird Tales of the Ramones", and on the Ramones live DVD "It's Alive 1974-1996". He penned the Ramones' hit song "Somebody Put Something in My Drink" which is included on the album "Ramones Mania", the first Ramones album to go gold, as well as "Smash You", "Humankind", "I'm Not Jesus", "I Know Better Now" and "(You) Can't Say Anything Nice". Richie's songs "I'm Not Jesus" and "Somebody Put Something in my Drink" have been covered by new generations of bands worldwide, particularly metal bands like Children of Bodom and Behemoth.