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Sorry about that. I've bookmarked some FReepers' names and thought I had seen you post something to that effect once.

I know someone who did personally know CJ and Marky (she didn't like Johnny Ramone because he was a Republican). She also knew some of the roadies.

I saw the Ramones play 3 times and met them at 2 different signing appearances (once with Dee Dee in the band). I never paid to see them (a friend knew the club owner once, CJ put me on the list once, and my friend got them to put me on the list at Lollapalooza once).

I've read a couple of Dee Dee's books. His final book (Last Testament of Dee Dee Ramone) has some exagerations in it but it is very clear that Dee Dee may have been from Germany but he had no love for what Europe has become. He also found that even pre-9/11 there was a lot of hatred of America and Americans over there. Dee Dee didn't seem to be big on socialism. He may have been more libertarian than conservative. He wanted his drugs but in the end they killed him. He had fought his addiction for decades. He had watched famous friends die of heroin and he kept wondering when it would happen to him. He didn't want to die and tried to get off of it (and he may have remained clean awhile). If he had gotten the legalization that he wanted, he would have been dead far earlier.