They pretended to be be a goofy boy band but were too bizarre looking to be pin ups and they were not even brothers. They were the most upside down band ever- they wanted to be pop stars- they even arrived in the UK in 1976 with a fan club magazine and were set up like some sort of gonzoid glam band on the helter skleter of the end of that trip- like some kinda faster version of the Arrows or those later glam bands that bridged the gap between glam and punk but the tripwired and created punk and became the template for rock n roll purity. The Ramones were a buzzsaw to convetion and their four headed monster, brothers in noise appraoch hid their dysfuncional genius. They were glued to our turntables and into our DNA to the point where if you don’t get da brudders you don’t get rock n roll.Īt some point on the floral and florrid seventies when rock n roll tried to get all grwon up and conceptual Tommy had a dream and created the most perfect pop band ever- the first generation gap in a culture that thought it was eternally teenage hip. The Ramones early albums were treated as a joke by the media and as a jolt to a wonderland of creativity by sporadic lunatic teenagers at the time and for decades since then. There is always something heartbreakingly sad about bidding farewell to a musician who once gave you the electric shock of life beyond the banal and the beige and made you feel really alive who has died and the Ramones underline this more than most. So farewell then to the last of the Ramones- Tommy has left us and the original Ramones are no more.
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