4 Post(s) Found For: The Ramones

  Over-intellectualizing about a subject as pure and simple in its perfection as the Ramones sort of defeats their entire purpose, now doesn’t it? The proverbial “dancing about architecture,” as Steve Martin (by way of Frank Zappa) might well say. Consequently, I’ve shied away from most books and studies concerning Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and […]

Riffs that kill combined with a look that thrills are a no better way to describe Ted Axe. A seasoned Veteran who has trekked the world and accumulated an outstanding list of accomplishments in the process that will make even the harshest of Critics say “wow!”. After years of fronting such bands as The Action […]

  I just want to walk right out of this world, coz everybody has a poison heart (Dee Dee Ramone, Daniel Rey)   Time to go listen to “Wart Hog” again… (musician-actor-fan Robbie Rist)   His speech was inarticulate; His songs were not (Carl Cafarelli, “This Is Rock ‘N’ Roll Radio”)   Dee Dee was […]

  Late one night in very late 1976, a singer acquaintance of mine burst into the (condemned) house I was then sharing with the neighborhood bar band, shouting “You will never believe what I just saw in Toronto tonight! These four guys with Brian Jones haircuts wearing drainpipe Levis, singing all these really fast, short […]