Not sure if there was huge disagreement with the band over Johnny’s politics - they were as close as could be - and I knew them from ‘75 onwards. For some punk “trivia” - I lived in LA when there were maybe 50-70 identifiable “punks” on the scene. I used to draw cadaverous illustrations of “dead kennedys” and showed them at parties to...well, you probably get the picture...I’m so bad, I illustrated a punk magazine called “Vietnam Never Happened” - On the cover was a naked Josie and the Pussycats with (in the foreground) a Jughead from Archie comics, in a lotus posture, ignited by a can of gasoline, a la burning buddhist monks circa 1970. Viva la Nixon!
“I lived in LA when there were maybe 50-70 identifiable “punks” on the scene”
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Dead Kennedys....man that band name shocked the crap out of me back then. Very Punk.
So maybe you knew X....let’s see that would be Exene Cervanka, John Doe, Billy Zoom and I can’t remember the drummer...Fred something?
Maybe Black Flag-I think they were LA Punk..maybe The Germs.
Ah my memory.....
Interesting, pretty much primary source, comment concerning the Ramones. I can only go by what Johnny Ramone wrote in later years. I had no idea he was a conservative when I followed the band, from a distance here in St. Louis, in their heyday.