Posted on 07/12/2014 12:20:03 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The Ridgewood, Queens, resident had been in hospice and suffering from bile duct cancer, according to Variety. Ramone was a drummer and producer who performed on the band’s first three albums.
Drummer Tommy Ramone, the last member of the original 1970s punk band the Ramones, died Friday of cancer, according to Variety. He was 62.
The Ridgewood, Queens, resident had been in hospice and suffering from bile duct cancer, the trade publication reported.
Ramone, born in Budapest, Hungary, was a drummer and producer who performed on the groundbreaking band’s first three albums, Variety said.
The Sex Pistols shook up rock n’ roll at a time when it was needed!
In 1988 the list of “Top 100 albums of the last 20 years” listed Sgt. Pepper as the top album (20th anniversary year of its release).
The number two was “Never Mind The Bollocks”.
The Sex Pistols — one of the best conservative songs EVER — a MILITANTLY conservative song, is by the Sex Pistols, off their debut album “Never Mind the Bollocks”.
It’s “Bodies”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfChDxrz4Ow
http://nymag.com/arts/popmusic/features/johnny-ramone-2012-3/
And just for fun:
http://nymag.com/arts/popmusic/features/johnny-ramone-top-ten-lists/
http://nymag.com/arts/popmusic/features/johnny-ramone-grades/
Heroin. But of course addicts will substitute other opiates when they are desperate. Perhaps I should not speculate on Tommy's drug habits, but he hung with a tough crowd. And, as I say bile duct cancer is highly correlated with substance abuse. Bile duct cancer (Cholangiocarcinoma) - Prevention
From Wikipedia:
Dee Dee:
Dee Dee struggled with drug addiction for much of his life, particularly heroin. He began using drugs as a teenager, and continued to use for the majority of his adult life. He appeared clean in the early 1990s but began using heroin again some time later. He died from a heroin overdose on June 5, 2002.[1]
According to other sources "Joey and Marky struggled with alcoholism."
I remember Joey saying in an early interview that we probably could have won Vietnam “if it wasn’t for all the communist hippie protesters”. I loved the Ramones.
Indeed.
A few months ago, I found “Somebody That I Used to Know” on youtube and fell in love with it, but I have never heard it on radio. I listen to a lot of different music, spanning generations, that would not be available except for youtube.
Also, Pandora radio sometimes surprises me.
I love the new media, they provide so much more variety than radio or TV.
It’s a very 80s song. Very influenced by Sting. maybe a little Peter Gabriel.
LOL!
I think Gotye is influenced by a lot of older music. His biographical video says that he likes buying old vinyl records. Sadly, at this point, he appears to be a one-hit wonder.
Another good young artist is Passenger. I think he has a couple of hits now.
Wrong. Punk came out of the NY music scene (think CBGB niteclub) in the mid 70's and quickly spread to England. The New York Dolls, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Clash, etc were around in the mid to late 70's. They pretty much died out in the early 80's with the big hair bands and the single hit wonders.
Personally, I think the 80's was the best era for melodic rock, not counting 60's Motown and the like. I have 8 cd's off hits from that decade and they sound as good now as they did then. Some early 90's was also good. Since then - regurgitated rock and pop flash. Boring.
Let it go.
Really? Second greatest band of all time? So you never heard of the Stones, Who, Aerosmith, Kinks, etc. who predated them and where the punks got their influence from, just at a faster tempo? How sad you actually think that punk noise was cool. You have NO idea what cool is and it definitely wasn't punk as much as CBGB in NY liked to think so.
So where is punk today? Ever here it on a radio station or on a jukebox? Of course not - just noise and yelling. But the Stones are everywhere on jukeboxes and in so many movie soundtracks. They started with covers of Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf and others on the Chess label. Then came Motown with all their beautiful arrangements that punk never had.
We like what we like. Fair. Just please don't compare the punk movement to actual musicians who wrote real songs and yes, that includes the first Boston. Sue me for liking melodic rock.
Holy crap dude. Did you fall into a time warp?
The last time I posted to you or anyone on this thread was over 10 days ago.
It looks like it is YOU who needs to “let it go”.
Plus, since you brought it up, your rant is still just your opinion.
( I have been on FreeRepublic for 14 years. I have never had someone tell me to “let it go” 11 days after the fact.)
You are being ridiculously pushy on this thread.
I just read your last post to someone
Who the hell are you to tell another FReeper what kind of music they are allowed to like or enjoy?
Get over yourself. No one died and made you king around here.
Actually 3 "pretentious" songs on the first album. Please, "More Than a Feeling" took you to so many different places musically. How can you listen to that song and not tap your foot?
"Steve Miller Band - 1 hit wonder."
Sorry, he had many top 40 hits. Just on his "Stranger In Town" album he had 4 hits: "Hollywood Nights"; "Still The Same"; "Old Time Rock n Roll"; "We've Got Tonight".
"Fleetwood Mac - pretentiousness lead by biggest whore in music."
Don't know what who the whore was, but they were just mellow and cool. Sorry they didn't thrash. Someday when you're more mature, you may want to listen to "You Can Go Your Own Way" and appreciate the amazing lead by Buckingham. Many guitar afficiadoes admire his finger picking on that song and others.
"Sex Pistols - honest rock and roll , raw YES , real YES , and Sid had no musical talent , played with instruments STOLEN from the bands you mentioned ..."
Just what I've been trying to say. Punk was raw but had NO soul and just thrashed about. Just garage bands with a fast tempo and maybe some current message lyric wise. The kids wanted something different as kids need, but the bands were just noise, mostly. Glad punk died and even though I didn't care for the big hair bands, at least they started writing melodic rock again, rather than noise.
Punk is a distant memory. Even my own kids prefer Zepplin and other classic dinasour rock over the their own era music. That says everything.
No, I'm being very opinionated on this thread, and that's what we do when discussing subjective tastes. Don't like my input, don't read it.
Yes, it is just my musical opinion and that's all it is. I wasn't dictating anything to anyone - just stating my opinion, which we all do. I thought we get to say such. Guess I was wrong according to you. That's why I rarely post here anymore, because folks like you jump when someone doesn't agree with you or rubs you wrong.
Guess you're the latest music hall monitor. Didn't know it existed. I'll try to couch my opinions in the future to cooperate with your policies - not.
BTW, "let it go" was a different way of saying let's agree to disagree. Sheesh, can you be more controlling? Oh, wait, you've been around here for 14 years, so you have the right to tell me to back off from my opinions? Guess what? I was the head coordinator for THE first Free Republic event at the "March For Justice" effort in DC back in 1998. I have been intimately involved in other FR events. I was a founding member of VetsCor (see sidebar) and later the Chairman. I don't need your sh*t. So get out of my face.
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