The Ramones

[Tagger]

Originally Posted by Young Salt

an xfiles quote.....the one where the lone gunmen were killed.....
the gunman langly often wore a joey lives tshirt. This guy asks him who joey is......then tells him to get a real hero, he responds...

Langly: You want to know why Joey Ramone's my hero? 'Cause people like you never managed to grind him down. They never stole his spirit. He never gave in, never gave up, and never sold out. Right till his last breath. And he's not dead. Guys like that, they live forever

Thats beautiful ..

[Joe]

A buddy of mine was a huge Ramon fan...I went to a lot of Ramon shows. I probably saw The Ramons thirty times and every show was exactly the same except for intro. Now they're hailed as inovators - there has been more interest in them since the closing of CBGB's last week.

Joey Ramon: "Hey its really great to be back in ______ _____. Take it DeeDee."
DeeDee Ramon: "One! Two!Three! Four!"

BLAM, BLAM, BANG, BANG. Thirty two minute songs - a short break and thirty more.

My ears are still ringing.

[Tagger]

Originally Posted by Joe

Joey Ramon: "Hey its really great to be back in ______ _____. Take it DeeDee."
DeeDee Ramon: "One! Two!Three! Four!"

BLAM, BLAM, BANG, BANG. Thirty two minute songs - a short break and thirty more.

My ears are still ringing.

I think its street music , more attitude and youth than technical playing ability. They were probably the first punk band to make it big as far as videos .Now they're nastalgic .. They had some catchy tunes.. Simple but, I still love hearing "I want to be sedated" or " Rock and Roll High School". Some kids listen to them now . I guess if you can stand the test of time, you did something right .

[Karl F]

you nailed it Ed.. Garage Rock at it's purest form.. and they knew it.. DeeDee was once asked why he played so fast.. "band rule.. all songs no longer than 2 minutes".. Joey once said.. "Yeah we suck, but we rule at suck, don't like it, F*** you!".. they put on no airs at all.
And you are right, if they got longevity, they had something goin on.
I see Ramones bumper stickers on a lot of kids cars at the local High School.

Anybody get Howard TV?.. I understand he has all the old Ramone interviews & performances, unedited, from the old show, on the PPV list.

[Joe]

It certainly was raw. Early punk was as much a rejection of the music culture as it was of society.

Popular music in the pre-punk era was populated by musicians with a high level of virtuosity. Bands Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Peter Frampton, etc, usually the musicians that made it were either prodigies, classically trained, or both. The talent required had a discriminating quality to it.

Punk said, “All you need is three chords and something to say.” Rap and Hip-Hop are offshoots of this social rejection; but without the three-chord prerequisite. They’ll run a beat track behind you and you can rhyme without the burden of music lessons. Punk taught us that style is substance.

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"Beat the Brat with a baseball bat"

Jim Carroll, wow a blast from the past how about Pop O Pies? "Bake those donuts with extra grease this batch is for the chief o police"