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Johnny Ramone: Rebel in a rebel's world
Washington Times ^
Posted on 03/12/2004 8:51:11 AM PST by RUCKUS INC.
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:41:26 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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For 100 nights a year over three decades, punk-rock guiterrorist Johnny Ramone stood with his head down, face in an intense scowl of concentration, legs shoulder-width apart, hammering at his blue Mosrite with a blurry right hand. The cacophony was pure bliss, a white noise ringing that punched holes in all that was peaceful, shards of the power chords busting into little aural stars, like the lights you see when you smack your head, only in your ears. It was such good, loud pain. Johnny dropped his job as a construction worker in 1974 and held down stage right for 22 years as the guitarist for the most influential rock band of the last 30 years. The Ramones fertilized the punk-rock scene first in their hometown of New York City, then in England. Eventually
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KEYWORDS: johnnyramone; ramones; rightwingcelebs
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To: bc2
There needs to be a punk ping list. One would be amazed at the musicial tastes and fashion leanings of certain Freepers.
Never can understand why we can't get it together and pull together a conservative/libertarian webzine to return to punk to its true individualistic, rebellious roots.
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posted on
03/13/2004 6:48:29 PM PST
by
lavrenti
(I'm not bad...just misunderstood.)
To: bc2
it's about time someone in the punk community spoke up and spoke up about the so-called punks of today, I'm a former gothic and a former punk, I don't look like a punk anymore, but I still wave the flag proudly and am sick of the whiney wannabes out there, God bless dude, take care
102
posted on
03/13/2004 8:00:37 PM PST
by
BlindedByTruth
(all single female Ohio Freepers 21-35, Freep-mail me if interested (24/m/Cleveland area)
To: labowski
Ping me, I'm a rocker!!!
103
posted on
03/14/2004 5:22:26 AM PST
by
baltodog
("Never feel sorry for a man who owns his own plane.")
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To: bc2
Punk has always been about personal freedoms, individualism, and anti-authoritarian.
Since when did this equal left-wing thought policing, colectivism, and Big Government?
These trendies out there pretending to be punk today just don't get it.
105
posted on
03/16/2004 12:35:31 PM PST
by
counterpunch
(click my name to check out my 'toons!)
To: bc2
Put me on the punk rock pinglist!
106
posted on
03/16/2004 12:38:15 PM PST
by
counterpunch
(click my name to check out my 'toons!)
To: labowski
Shane isn't as much "left-leaning' as he has that Irish middle class attitude of everyone is out to get the working man, he is an Irish nationalist as are a lot of Irish who see the EU as destructive to their culture:
"this land was always ours, it was the proud land of our fathers, it belongs to us and them, not to any of the others"
i was sitting w/ my friends father in galway a few months ago and he went on about it, I feel bad for them, it is so expensive over there now.
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posted on
03/16/2004 1:10:15 PM PST
by
Conservomax
(shill: One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into part)
To: Darksheare; Jen
Pinging you to a great article.
To: FormerLib
If you know him, tell him I said "hey". ;-)
To: counterpunch
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posted on
06/15/2004 10:30:50 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. ~~Ronald Reagan)
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