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omg, i was just flipping through spin today- dedication to punk edition. first time i crowd surfed was to him singing frown.gif

damn, and he was still rather young . . .

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Thank you Joey.

I wanna Be Sedated.

On a similar note, i have a CD of a brass band doing instrumental covers of Ramones tunes. OMG it kicks ass.

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A true genius is lost .. sure, the band only played 3 chords and only wrote songs about sex and partying and high school life, but that was the whole point of The Ramones existence ... after years of 24 minute opuses from Pink Floyd and Yes, someone finally got pissed off enough to go back to the simple rock themes of the 1950s and early 60s. And there's no one who will disagree that the punk movement in the late 70s - and the post-punk revival in the early 90s - was bad for the history of rock. Now if we can only banish 1980s hair-band rock from our collective memories ....

Godspeed, Joey ...

.. now let's get back to talking about DJs

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Here's the article from AP...I wanna be sedated!!!

Punk Rocker Joey Ramone Is Dead at 49

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> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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>

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> Filed at 11:31 p.m. ET

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>

> NEW YORK (AP) -- Singer Joey Ramone, the punk rock

> icon whose

> signature yelp melded with the Ramones' three-chord

> thrash to

> launch an explosion of bands like the Clash and the

> Sex Pistols,

> died Sunday. He was 49.

>

> Ramone, the gangly lead singer with the leather

> jacket, tinted

> glasses and permanently-torn jeans, was hospitalized

> last month

> with lymphoma. His death was confirmed Sunday by

> Arturo Vega, the

> Ramone's longtime artistic director.

>

> The Ramones -- its four members adopted the common

> last name after

> forming the band in 1974 -- came out of Queens, a

> motley collection

> of local losers with limited musical skills. Joey

> became the lead

> singer only after his drumming proved too

> rudimentary to keep up

> with his bandmates' thunderous riffs.

>

> While British bands such as the Sex Pistols and

> Clash received the

> media attention once punk rock exploded, both were

> schooled by the

> Ramones' tour of England that began on the U.S.

> Bicentennial --

> July 4, 1976.

>

> ``They changed the world of music. They rescued rock

> and roll from

> pretentiousness and unnecessary adornments,'' said

> Vega.

>

> Their ``do-it-yourself,'' garage-rock influence

> still echoes today

> in bands like Green Day and the Offspring. The

> low-tech Ramones

> spent just two days and $6,000 recording their 1976

> debut album.

>

> ``They're the daddy punk group of all time,'' said

> Joe Strummer,

> lead singer of the Clash, in a recent Spin magazine

> interview.

>

> Despite their influence and critical acclaim, the

> Ramones never

> cracked the Top 40.

>

> Bruce Springsteen, after seeing the Ramones in an

> Asbury Park,

> N.J., club, wrote ``Hungry Heart'' for the band --

> but his manager

> convinced The Boss to keep the eventual hit single.

>

> The Ramones' best-known songs reflected their

> twisted teen years in

> Queens: ``Beat on the Brat,'' ``I Wanna Be

> Sedated,'' ``Now I Wanna

> Sniff Some Glue,'' ``Teenage Lobotomy,'' ``Sheena Is

> a Punk

> Rocker.''

>

> Joey Ramone was born Jeffrey Hyman on May 19, 1951.

> His career

> started during the early 1970s glam-rock era, when

> he played in

> several New York bands -- occasionally under the

> name Jeff

> Starship.

>

> But his collaboration with Dee Dee, Johnny and Tommy

> Ramone was

> something special. They became fixtures in downtown

> clubs like

> CBGBs and Max's Kansas City, joining fellow punkers

> like Patti

> Smith and Richard Hell.

>

> The scene eventually produced commercially

> successful bands like

> Blondie and the Talking Heads.

>

> The Ramones recorded their first album of

> two-minute, three-chord

> blasts in February 1976. The band then earned a

> loyal cult

> following with a seemingly endless string of tours

> where they would

> crank out 30 songs in 90 minutes.

>

> In 1979, Joey and the band appeared in the Roger

> Corman movie

> ``Rock N' Roll High School,'' contributing the title

> song to the

> soundtrack. They also did the title track for the

> film ``Pet

> Semetary,'' based on the book by Ramones fan Stephen

> King.

>

> Their last real stab at commercial success came in a

> bizarre 1980

> collaboration with producer Phil Spector -- a

> session that bassist

> Dee Dee Ramone recalled most for Spector's pulling a

> gun on the

> band inside his Beverly Hills mansion.

>

> Joey eventually wound up singing a syrupy version of

> Spector's

> classic ``Baby, I Love You'' -- the strangest

> recording of the

> band's 22-year career. The Spector-produced ``End of

> the Century''

> did become the Ramones' best-selling record, hitting

> No. 44 on the

> charts.

>

> Five years later, the band released ``Bonzo Goes to

> Bitburg'' --

> Joey Ramone's angry rant about President Reagan's

> visit to a German

> military cemetery.

>

> The Ramones disbanded in 1996 after a tour that

> followed their

> final studio album, ``Adios Amigos.'' A live

> farewell tour album,

> ``We're Outta Here!'', was released in 1997.

>

> Since the band's demise, Joey Ramone kept a fairly

> low profile --

> occasionally popping up to perform or host shows at

> Manhattan

> clubs, making occasional radio show appearances, and

> working on a

> solo album that was never released.

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Originally posted by roby:

And there's no one who will disagree that the punk movement in the late 70s - and the post-punk revival in the early 90s - was bad for the history of rock.

/B]

What are you? A fucking moron?

trained pussy.

-iliana

(fuck you)

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Originally posted by iliana:

What are you? A fucking moron?

trained pussy.

-iliana

(fuck you)

whoops ... I deserved that nasty comment .. big typo ... I meant that the punk movement was "good" for the history of rock ... I think I used a double negative in my earlier post .. I'm still all banged up from Digweed/Tenaglia ...

Thanks for pointing out my fuck up, in your sensitive shy way ...

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Joey was one of those people whom whenever you were driving in your car or whatever and he'd come on you'd just start moving. The Ramones music always put a smile on somebody's face and always kept you happy. He was without a doubt a legend and will surely be missed.

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