Johnny Ramone Has Cancer

[BoondockSaint]

Another legend about to pass away. (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story?id=6185029&pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single1)

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[Tall_James]

That fucking sucks. God bless you Johnny. Beat on that cancer brat with a baseball bat.


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[Freakshow]

It's not been a good millenium for those guys.

That really sucks.

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[badorties]

just a complete bummer ...

he wasn't always my favourite (his politics and complaining was a bit off-putting), but in my skewed universe he's the most important (and greatest) guitarist of all time ...

not for talent or virtuosity, but for the inspired generations that picked up a guitar and made the most out of three chords ...



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[Davios]

Although I certaintly didn't agree with all of Johnny's political beliefs, I have to say that they made me appreciate him so much more. In his world, to think the way he did was and still is incredibly unpopular but he stuck to his guns. If anyone's interested there was a really good article in the washington times about him. Here's the link to it.

Johnny Ramone: Rebel in a rebel's world (http://www.washtimes.com/entertainment/20040311-085521-1823r.htm)

[JohnnyCash]

Thats awful. First Joey, then DeeDee. Now Johnny. I
really hope he beats this.
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[keithy_19]

I guess God feels like getting the band back together.

I hope for a recovery...

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[Recyclerz]

Let me add myself to the list saying that this stinks and I don't like it. Prostate cancer in the 50's is usually pretty virulent and incurable (eg. Frank Zappa, Bill Bixby).

At least Johnny has and Joey and Dee-Dee had lived long enough to get their props. Half the Village is going to have streets named after dead punk stars.

These guys really were/are the anti-Spinal Tap.




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[FMJeff]

geez it sucks to be a ramone...

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[Shecky]

I feel sorry for their mother.

[curtoid]

Johnny is a really great, but extemely intense guy who could easily be confused with being a self-righteous prick (especially if you read the Monte Melnick book).

Johnny was the real leader of the Ramones - Dee Dee and Joey wrote, and of course Joey got a lot of the attention for being the front man, but nothing got done without Johnny signing off on it, or coming up with it in the first place. He made the most important decisions -some good ones, but others, like not signing with Epitaph in the early 1990s, not so good.

His personal politics never bothered me because they never influcenced their songs or their shows - "Bonzo Goes To Bitburg/ My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down" is the only exception, and he was furious about it, not only because it criticized the President, it was also not what the Ramones were all about.

To see The Ramones live left no doubt what a terrific guitar player he really was. For an hour and ten or fifteen minutes they would easily rip through thirty songs, and the intensity at which he attacked the guitar made you wonder how he, and the rest of the Ramones, keep up their non stop schedule.

When Dee Dee left (to become a Rapper!), Johnny had an active hand in replacing him with Chris Ward, a young kid (AWOL from the Marines, I believe) who modeled himself after Dee Dee, and really took the kid under his wing. With "C.J." the band easily added about 8 more years to their career, right at a time when "punk" was "breaking" - you have to wonder if Joey hadn't been sick, would they really have split in 1996?

In any event, they retired about 5 years after he would have preferred (he hated the idea of the old punk rocker, and always said that this music was supposed to be for the kids, by the kids), and when they did he settled into California into the life of retired rock legend.

In the last couple of years, you can't go to the movies, it seems, without hearing a Ramones track. "School of Rock" used a couple of my favorites ("Rock and Roll Radio" and "Something to Believe In"). Then there was "Jackass The Movie" ("California Sun'), "House of a 1000 Corpses" ("Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue"), "Jimmy Neutron" ("Blitzkrieg Bop"), "Royal Tenenbaums" ("Judy Is a Punk") and the classic "Freddy Got Fingered" ("We're a Happy Family").

There is a documentary on the Ramones that played at Toronto last year called "End of the Century" that is supposed to be pretty good.

Any-who - I love the Ramones. I miss seeing the Ramones. It sucks that they never got the level of success that bands today do - bands that were influenced by bands that were influenced by the Ramones. I feel really lousy that they never got to enjoy their retirement after working so hard, for so long, and I really feel bad for their close family and friends.

Hang in there Marky!

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This message was edited by curtoid on 6-16-04 @ 11:00 AM

[Davios]

I guess the original reports were exaggerated.

Johnny Ramone Is Not Dying, His Doctor Says (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1488468/20040616/ramones.jhtml?headlines=true)

[fiestygal]

another one????!!!!!!!!!!....

What did the 5 fingers say to the face..


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