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Breaking news: Johnny Ramone dies
AP | Sept. 15, 2004 | AP

Posted on 09/15/2004 8:28:23 PM PDT by JellyJam

Johnny Ramone, member of punk legends ’The Ramones,’ dies at 55

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Johnny Ramone, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal punk band “The Ramones,” has died. He was 55.

Ramone died in his sleep Wednesday afternoon at his Los Angeles home surrounded by friends and family, his publicist said. He had battled prostate cancer for five years, and was hospitalized in June at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Ramone, born John Cummings, was one of the original members of the Ramones, whose hit songs “I Wanna be sedated” and “Blitzkrieg Bop,” among others, earned the band induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

The band’s singer, Joey Ramone, whose real name was Jeff Hyman, died in 2001 of lymphatic cancer. Bassist Dee Dee Ramone, who was born Douglas Colvin, died from a drug overdose in 2002.

Johnny Ramone founded “The Ramones” in 1974 with Joey Ramone, DeeDee Ramone and Tommy Ramone, the only surviving member of the original band.


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To: Clemenza

Thank you for the info. You know the band very well.


41 posted on 09/15/2004 8:58:01 PM PDT by roadrunner96
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To: ConservativeMan55
Johnny Ramone was a proud Reagan conservative and was always amazed how the rock culture, as a whole, blindly followed liberalism. He lived in the heart of the leftist echo chamber but was a consistent voice against these morons. I have a copy of an excellent interview he gave last year talking about his politics. I'll post it if I can figure out how to do it.
42 posted on 09/15/2004 8:59:00 PM PDT by Mase (Some of my friends voted yes, some of my friends voted no. I always vote with my friends)
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To: JellyJam; All

How sad

The Ramones were my fav band


43 posted on 09/15/2004 8:59:12 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("Not everybody , in it, for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: Clemenza

Last post here for me tonight at least.

For Punk Music, they and the Clash is who I liked, we all have opinions. The Clash's success is almost commercialized now, but of course, they lost one of their band leaders in the last few years as well.

Just my opinion.


44 posted on 09/15/2004 9:00:30 PM PDT by roadrunner96
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To: Jhensy

damn....hope he mailed in his absentee ballot! Gabba Gabba Hey!

Saw the Ramones @ CBGB's

R.I.P.


45 posted on 09/15/2004 9:00:35 PM PDT by Republic Rocker
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To: Mase

I am not too sure he was a Conservative.

46 posted on 09/15/2004 9:01:16 PM PDT by pete anderson
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To: roadrunner96
Despite their leftist politics, London Calling and The Clash are two albums that I never get tired of playing.
47 posted on 09/15/2004 9:02:38 PM PDT by Clemenza (I LOVE Halliburton, SUVs and Assault Weapons. Any Questions?)
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To: pete anderson

Read my post #22. That song caused a bit of a rift in the band.


48 posted on 09/15/2004 9:03:22 PM PDT by Clemenza (I LOVE Halliburton, SUVs and Assault Weapons. Any Questions?)
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To: shadowman99
Home of the brave.


49 posted on 09/15/2004 9:05:17 PM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: Clemenza

Disco Rules!


50 posted on 09/15/2004 9:05:20 PM PDT by Coleus (www.catholicTeamLeader.com)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

18 Seconds. Foiled again.


51 posted on 09/15/2004 9:05:30 PM PDT by bootyist-monk (<--------------------- Republican Attack Machine)
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To: Clemenza
I am a fan of the Ramones, I saw them play several times and even got a bloody nose while in the pit.

But, if you listen to the songs lyrics and see the cover art I do not see how Johnny could have been a true conservative.

52 posted on 09/15/2004 9:06:16 PM PDT by pete anderson
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To: pete anderson

I had the wonderful opportunity to actually speak to him about his politics almost a year ago, and he told me that when he was a construction worker in Queens, NY during the Vietnam War, he and his fellow workers used to drop bags of cement on to the hippies who were protesting the war beneath their construction site.


53 posted on 09/15/2004 9:08:38 PM PDT by paltz
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To: GalaxieFiveHundred

Thanks for that Galaxie; to me, they say Brooklyn, or New York, I haven't been there, but to me, that's what they are; and so original...


54 posted on 09/15/2004 9:08:50 PM PDT by roadrunner96
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To: JellyJam

How sad. And he was a Bush fan, too.


55 posted on 09/15/2004 9:09:08 PM PDT by NYCVirago
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99

I just started up "Radio@AOL", tuned to the Punk station, and that exact song was playing. Coincidence? Something higher? Eerie, nonetheless.


56 posted on 09/15/2004 9:09:22 PM PDT by richmwill
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To: Coleus
Disco Rules!

The most played CD at Clemenza's house these days is Saturday Nigth Fever. I even have the original double album.

57 posted on 09/15/2004 9:13:12 PM PDT by Clemenza (I LOVE Halliburton, SUVs and Assault Weapons. Any Questions?)
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To: Age of Reason
If that's a conservative, this country is lost.

I guess he doesn't live up to your Ned Flanders standard.


58 posted on 09/15/2004 9:15:38 PM PDT by kezekiel
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To: Mase

I am not sure a Proud Reagan Conservative would be in a band with these lyrics:

(Bonzo Goes To Bitburg)

You've got to pick up the pieces

C'mon, sort your trash

You better pull yourself back together

Maybe you've got too much cash

Better call, call the law

When you gonna turn yourself in? Yeah

You're a politician

Don't become one of Hitler's children

Bonzo goes to bitburg then goes out for a cup of tea

As I watched it on TV somehow it really bothered me Drank in all the bars in town for an extended foreign policy

Pick up the pieces

My brain is hanging upside down

I need something to slow me down

Shouldn't wish you happiness, wish her the very best

Fifty thousand dollar dress

Shaking hands with your highness

See through you like cellophane

You watch the world complain, but you do it anyway

Who am I, am I to say

Bonzo goes to bitburg then goes out for a cup of tea

As I watched it on TV somehow it really bothered me

Drank in all the bars in town for an extended foreign policy

Pick up the pieces

My brain is hanging upside down

I need something to slow me down

If there's one thing that makes me sick

It's when someone tries to hide behind politics

I wish that time could go by fast

Somehow they manage to make it last

My brain is hanging upside down

I need something to slow me down

59 posted on 09/15/2004 9:15:58 PM PDT by pete anderson
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To: pete anderson

When you're the sole conservative in a band with three liberals you're not going to win every battle.


60 posted on 09/15/2004 9:16:56 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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