Johnny Ramone

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...and let's just continue this here. Was thinking today about this guy. I've always had people avert there eyes when I say this, but one of the top 10 rock players of all time. Pure essence and all natural. Saw him 5 times and was always amazed at how his sound was like a klieg light.

We're now witnessing great rockers dying of cancer. Zappa, Harrison, Joey, Zevon, and now Johnny. But Johnny kept it to himself and didn't give us a going away present, like Joey and Warren. I hope somebody writes their story well. He just wanted to go away and trade baseball cards.

RIP Joey, Johnny & Dee Dee....end of an era....especilly w/Joe Strummer also passing away recently.

I will never forget my first Ramones concert. It was in 84 or 85 when I was in HS, and my buddies and I used our fake IDs to get into the Metro in downtown Chicago to see them. There we were, a bunch of little preppy HS dorks, wearing non-punk shit looking right out of the 'burbs, and hopping up and down near the front in the crowd surrounded by some "real punk rockers" , and I got slammed to the ground, and 2 big dudes lifted me up and said "stand between us", which I did for the rest of the show, just amazed at these guys.....saw them a few times afterewards in the 90s, but lost interest as the original members started peeling off......RIP Johnny

i, unfortunately, have never been to a ramones concert and that fact will continue to haunt me. i just went to johnny ramone's 'beat on cancer' benefit and it has assuaged that void, to say the least.

sonic youth, always the icon of indie rock... of the real rock in this generation of hipster frivolity layed out such a strong performance. cj ramone and danny rey belted out covers like rockaway beach and i wanna be your boyfriend with andrew wk, alan vega and others. the strokes came on pretty strong, drawing together the masses of perpeptually bouncing frat boys. debbie harry/blondie definitely owned the show and played the longest set. the way they played, you wouldn't associate them with the 70's fare they pumped out. the new harder edge suits them so well, but of course they had to play heart of glass as their curtain call closer.

so much energy.. in between each set they played a few ramones tunes and the crowd was into singing along and reminiscing as watching the real thing. r.i.p. x3.