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Tommy Ramone, Last Original Member of the 1970s Punk Band The Ramones, Dies at 62
New York Daily News ^ | Saturday, July 12, 2014,

Posted on 07/12/2014 12:20:03 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: Rummyfan

Christine McVie or Stevie Nicks? Or Lindsey Buckingham?
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I was thinking Stevie Nicks ,, she was so infamous that SNL did many skits mocking her ... maybe it was because she aborted Don Henleys child..


81 posted on 07/12/2014 6:09:02 AM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: nickcarraway

bile duct cancer..... painful way to meet Your Maker. RIP Tommy!


82 posted on 07/12/2014 6:13:25 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: nickcarraway

Dang. Rest in peace.


83 posted on 07/12/2014 6:24:53 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: A Navy Vet

Second greatest band of all time...after the Beatles. RIP Tommy.


84 posted on 07/12/2014 6:51:43 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: A Navy Vet

Sex Pistols sucked, yes, but The Ramones had some nice simple melodic tunes...Beach Boy style. Nothing like typical punk crap. A lot of bad songs, but a lot of good ones. Doesn’t hurt that they were Republicans.


85 posted on 07/12/2014 7:42:00 AM PDT by Phillyred
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To: A Navy Vet

Listen to their version of Needles and Pins. Awesome.


86 posted on 07/12/2014 7:44:16 AM PDT by Phillyred
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To: lee martell

Just watched an interesting documentary on youtube from BBC4 (part of the 3 part Punk Britannia doc).

Part 1 - The Roots of Punk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrX5-V8pQr8&list=PL5Ssj_AykzW0PFrD0Aw7ku3F6m6om-emH

It covers pub rock, the rockabilly revival of the early 70s, and more. Some of it as a reaction to arena rock/”super rock”, glam, and prog.

It’s also good to see one of the early performers claim that any rock and rollers in the 70s who said they “hated the Beatles and the Stones” was a liar.


87 posted on 07/12/2014 9:30:07 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: A Navy Vet

Fleetwood Mac were much better as a blues band (early days) than a fern bar “soft rock” act.


88 posted on 07/12/2014 9:31:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: A Navy Vet

Motown wasn’t about connecting singer/songwriters to an audience. It was a “hit factory” churning out studio product (studio writer, studio performers, packaged singers).

It was mixed to sound good on an AM car radio.

There is much better 60s soul than Motown.


89 posted on 07/12/2014 9:33:51 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: nickcarraway

How sad. Rest in peace, Tommy.


90 posted on 07/12/2014 9:34:20 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: csvset

Boston stinks. The Ramones were great.


91 posted on 07/12/2014 9:37:34 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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92 posted on 07/12/2014 9:38:08 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: a fool in paradise

I liks Motown as well as Stax and Chess. For me it depended on the artists.

There was a lot of pop sound in Motown, but now and then the soul came through.

I think if you put our a dozen records a week for years, you’re going to get some of them right.

One of my favorite experiences was at the Long Beach Blues Festival in 1994. They brought out these two old guys from Mississippi and they sat in chairs on the edge of the stage. They played 4 songs and left. Both in their late 80s and rarely had played outside the state. That was a special time.


93 posted on 07/12/2014 9:40:15 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Open Borders, pro-terrorist, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: exDemMom

There’s a WHOLE WORLD of music that never made the radio playlists. And the playlists of today are even more restricted (and that goes double for the “forgotten” hits that charted years ago).

To listen to “classic rock” radio of today is to mean that the Beatles never existed, Led Zepplin had only 4 songs, Jimi Hendrix 2 song, etc....


94 posted on 07/12/2014 9:40:39 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: sushiman

In the late 1960s, Klaus Flouride played in the band Magic Terry & The Universe, which included 1980s rock singer Billy Squier.


95 posted on 07/12/2014 9:43:00 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: Jack Black

Springsteen wrote “Hungry Heart” for the Ramones and then took it back for himself.


96 posted on 07/12/2014 9:45:02 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: nickcarraway

In the past decade, Tommy had a bluegrass band called Uncle Monk

Round The Bend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzf4FRMX22k

Mr. Endicott
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2FdHs3Sko

And solo accoustic “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0VOiNxC2Ao


97 posted on 07/12/2014 9:48:50 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: Fresh Wind

“overblown nonsense of the English “progressive” bands had run its course”

never. :-) Progressive bands and their descendants still exist and perform. They don’t have mass following but ... heck ... the masses elected Obama twice. Yes, ELP, Kansas, Gentle Giant etc could actually play their instruments and write music beyond 3 chord rock. not everyone likes that style of music and that is fine. I saw Yes last year. Not as good as they were in the 90s but still incredible they could still perform whole albums of complex music live.

Having said that ... I like all kinds of music and hard rock. I confess to liking at least one Ramones song — “Glad to see you go” ... “in a fit of passion ... get the the thrill like Charles Manson”. strange but original


98 posted on 07/12/2014 9:58:54 AM PDT by plain talk
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If chart "success" is the true sign of quality, then the Sex Pistols were better than the Eagles, Queen, ELO, ELP, or even Donny Osmond.


99 posted on 07/12/2014 10:16:25 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Just last week, we were in the break room at work, and the news was talking about the big GM recall, and the new Camaros. So I said something about 'bitchin Camaro'.

This 18 year old kid said his dad always says that, 'bitchin Camaro.'

Made me feel old.

100 posted on 07/12/2014 10:22:49 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Fightin' in a basement)
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