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Topic: Johnny Ramone Dead at 55
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Tangento
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posted September 16, 2004 01:34
    
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We're a happy family
We're a happy family
We're a happy family
Me mom and daddySitting here in Queens
Eating refried beans
We're in all the magazines
Gulpin' down thorazines We ain't got no friends
Our troubles never end
No Christmas cards to send
Daddy likes men Daddy's telling lies
Baby's eating flies
Mommy's on pills
Baby's got the chills I'm friends with the President
I'm friends with the Pope
We're all making a fortune
Selling Daddy's dope
man, those were some good times -------------------- "You have the option to drill additional holes in the label,
causing the record to rotate off the side of the turntable" -Tom Ellard - Severed Heads
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Slaytanic
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Member # 28
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posted September 16, 2004 11:11
I woke up with the bad news as well. Bad bad news. quote:
Originally posted by schroeder:
I will play my favorite Ramones cd today: HALF WAY TO SANITY
Great pick, think I'm playing this one as well. -------------------- "Forty-five moments of perfection translated through a cautionary escape into the perils of the mundane, the inherent entropy in ultimate order, and the potential threats of eternal, unchecked apathy in civilization; all cloaked in musical expression so thoughtful, creative and forward thinking that almost a quarter-century later, few can even comprehend it, much less match it." (autothrall)
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Heimdall
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posted September 16, 2004 19:15
I've never been much into the Ramones but this is sad. Where is this world going when all the greats die?I hope we won't get one of the (Monty) Pythons dead next. -------------------- The demons are so creative...
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Peter Nubile
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posted September 20, 2004 01:03
 Yes indeed ladies and gentlemen, tis a very sad thing which happened the other day out there in the world of Rock 'N Roll... I'm at the moment kind of at a loss for words but, having said this, I must state right here that I have long admired the amazing Ramones phenomenon and looked at Johnny in particular as being one hell of a cool dude and no fooling either! I always used to get a real kick out of watching Johnny in action, he had some really funny mannerisms; almost a kind of a charming naivete which, from my perspective, made him all that much more remarkable and enjoyable to watch and listen to...  -------------------- "Woah, ho, ho, and a pint of Hefeweizen!!!"
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Tangento
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posted September 24, 2004 21:28
...thought I'd add this:
Sad to See You Go
Johnny Ramone, 1948–2004 Johnny Ramone was a guitar hero who hated guitar solos. He’d go entire decades using only two barre-chord formations in concert, up and down the neck with curt precision, slipping in a sneering half-second string bend every few years. The guitarist, who died at his Los Angeles home September 15 after a battle with prostate cancer, didn’t even play most of the scattered licks — they were too short to be called solos — that were overdubbed on the Ramones’ 14 studio albums. Yet his morbidly relentless down-stroke philosophy — just a Mosrite strummed impossibly fast, plugged into a fortress of Marshall stacks — instigated virtually every other punk rhythm guitarist, and acted as the louder-faster starting point for countless aggro-rock and metal groups, from Bad Brains and the Misfits to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica. Born on Long Island, John Cummings eventually replaced his teenage-hoodlum tendencies with the guitar, encouraged by the swaggering, anyone-can-do-it simplicity of Slade and the New York Dolls. He took the hardest power-chord elements of the Stooges, the Who, the Stones and the early Kinks, sped them up and basically ditched everything else. Although Johnny Ramone was an admittedly limited musician, he was the primary architect of the Ramones’ mesmerizing wall of sound; most bands need two guitarists to approximate the endless sea of distortion he churned out with such deceptive nonchalance. His militaristic approach to touring, rules and dress codes may have frustrated lead singer Joey and main songwriter Dee Dee when they wanted to go in different directions, but Johnny generally had the band’s best (and most punk) musical instincts. He recognized that there were a million great tunes hidden in that mind-clearing blur of fuzz; you just had to keep ’em to jukebox length. —Falling James
 -------------------- "You have the option to drill additional holes in the label,
causing the record to rotate off the side of the turntable" -Tom Ellard - Severed Heads
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Mr Eddy
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posted October 01, 2004 00:57
Really, really sad... But, as we all know, the guy left his mark in rock's history and this is a privilege of few. I must confess that I was fonder of Joey and Dee Dee, but Johnny was the main force behind the Ramones. He was the one who kept the band touring relentlessly for 2 decades and I was lucky enough to saw them live twice (first time in 1990 and the other one in the farwell tour). R.I.P. Johnny
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