[kj] OT- Alex, Johnny speaks of the Ramones

[iPat]

sums it up nicely. The Ramones influenced everything is a nice packed
viewpoint that had little to do with the likes of mid to late 70's
disenfranchised Britain. As pointed out before many bands like
Slaughter and the Dogs for one, were operating well before Ramones
even recorded.
The Ramones were fun but had very liitle to do with Punk in terms of
lifestyle except through the media promotion that saw a buck waiting.
Strummmer - in the recent documentary about him - readily admits to
jumping on the bandwagon but Rotten himself was a walking advert for S
E X surrounded by self indulgent art students.
Whilst Alex may violently object he will do so because he sees it from
his side of the ocean and has a nice romantic image about it. I
recently read a Gee Vaucher interview who was at Ramones and other
gigs in new York before coming back and putting her influence on the
British Punk scene.
Ultimately the Ramones were just a music band and had little influence
on ones perception of life, they were a party band and the staus quo
analogy is very clever, but they didnt challenge institutionalism in
the way that Punk did including bands like KJ.

On 9/21/07, Christophe BARRY <christophe.barry at wanadoo.fr> wrote:


> http://www.spin.com/features/news/2007/09/070920_jrotten/



> ha ha ha Status Quo …