2 Rock Guitarists Dead In Last 24 hours...Ratt's Robbin Crosby and The Ramones Dee Dee Ramone

AP/Reuters/All media outlets | 6-7-02 | my favorite headache

[My Favorite Headache]

I am posting this thread if anyone cares to add to it. I am a fan of so many different styles of music and the last 24 hours has claimed the lives of 2 men who took part in 2 totally different rock bands during 2 totally different periods of popularity.

The death's of Layne Staley from Alice In Chains was a waste. A total waste of incredible talent, gone forever due to an addiction to heroin. Dee Dee Ramone from the famous punk band The Ramones died of the very same thing a little more than a day ago. Robbin Crosby one of 2 guitarists in the 80s hard rock act RATT died from a long battle with AIDS, attributed from use of a dirty heroin needle.

Robbin was really a great guy. I saw RATT live with him and he was a great performer. He was also responsible for some of the best licks i.e. Round and Round, Wanted Man,Lay It Down, You're In Love,Back For More, Dance, Dance, Dance,Way Cool Jr., What's It Gonna Be? and much more. Hit after hit from Ratt.

He also dated everyone from Heather Locklear (who didn't?), Tawney Kitaen, and various models and actresses. He had such great talent but it all went to hell by way of the needle. A personality to light up a room. Yes a ton of people in here probably have never heard of him and will just call him another heroin junkie rock star who got what he deserved. But Robbin never denied that.

When he was on Geraldo's show about 7 yrs ago...his hands were swollen, he could not even play the guitar anymore and he had been diagnosed with HIV at the time.But he accepted it and also accepted CHRIST. He knew he played russian roulette and lost.

I am not going to gush over this anymore. I just came home from a 12 hour shift at work to have the news sent to me about his passing. I just wanted to recognize his life in some way because his music was something that was just downright...good.

Robbin is up with Christ now and his long and painful battle with AIDS is over.

R.I.P to the both of them.

[My Favorite Headache]

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[Don Myers]

Drugs are killing people. Imagine that.

[My Favorite Headache]

[Diddle E. Squat]

Oh my goodness, first the microbiologists, now rock guitarists!

[Diddle E. Squat]

Actually I'm sorry to hear of his death, but glad to see he found Jesus.

Round and Round and Dance, Dance, Dance bring back lots of high school memories.

[Huck]

RATT was some of the worst bullshit noise ever imposed on an unwitting public.

[My Favorite Headache]

Same here...breaking out the discs as I write this...might as well just let the greatest hits disc run tonight.

[AAABEST]

I saw the Ramones in 1980 at the Palladium in NYC. What a show. Non-stop, no breaks, hard core energy. Just 1-2-3-4 from one song to the next.

If I didn't have a huge headache from taking a punch in the side of the head (that's another story) I probably would have had more fun, but it was still great.

Sorry to see Dee Dee and Joey go. The Ramones are gone forever I guess.

[Dakmar]

Drugs are killing people. Imagine that.

Kurt Cobain and several other rock stars died from gun wounds. Imagine that. Patsy Cline was killed in a plane crash. Life goes on...

[Skip Ripley]

Somebody called me on the phone
They said Hey is Dee Dee home?
Do you wanna take a walk, do you wanna go cop
Do you wanna go get some chinese rock?
I'm living on the chinese rock
All my best things are in hock.....

[Chad Fairbanks]

Oh my god! My husband is a roadie with The Ramones! I'm getting in the shower, can someone keep me updated?????????

Chad's Wife

[Pokey78]

http://www.topfuelrecords.com/

Robbin Crosby August 4, 1960 - June 6, 2002

	Our dear friend Robbin Crosby passed away Thursday morning. His family and close friends are asking for your respect, prayers and appreciation. "Robbin was a sweet soul, great talent and he will be dearly missed, rest in peace. Stephen Pearcy"

[BnBlFlag]

Sorry, never heard of either one of 'em.

[hole_n_one]

RATT was some of the worst bullshit noise ever imposed on an unwitting public.

From your profile page............

My hobbies:

Music. I play bluegrass guitar and I also play in a Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band.

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A "hobby"?.......are you sure you're aren't the end all authority on the subject?

[Chad Fairbanks]

I know The Ramones avoided politics mostly in the early years - their urpose was to have fun. The first time they did something blatently political was when Reagan went to Bitzberg - it ticked them off - apparently most of the Ramones were Reaganites (suprising, somewhat)- and they wrote a song about it...

I always enjoyed Ramones shows - high energy fun is right :0)

[Pokey78]

RATT was some of the worst bullshit noise ever imposed on an unwitting public

No, that would be Nena's '99 Luft Balloons'.

[rockfish59]

I remember when Hendrix died and it affected me more than any of the others at that time:

Pig Pen
Janis
Jim Morrison
Otis Redding
Mama Cass

But with all the warnings out there, they still geez it up don't they?

[AgentEcho]

Geez this is a horrible time losing some good musitiams.
My niece has been studying sound engineering in a college in north Texas for 2 years now and asked for my opinion of the best music I've ever heard. Well for last Christmas I put togeather a 12 CD set for her (SORRY, No royalties paid. I already paid for the music and I'm using it for her education. We're both really into music) I had everything from Bethtoven to White Zombie. Ratt made two tracks. Way Cool, Jr. (The opening solo did such a great job of setting a really gritty tone to the whole song) and "Lack of Communication" because of great insight into the human experiance. Did he do Lack? Very powerful, in-your-face strings to carry out the entire feeling of the song.