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

[Alexander Smith]

Johnny's just jealous, because The Ramones beat him to it. He's just  
mad at history.

Alex in NYC


On Sep 21, 2007, at 4:28 AM, iPat wrote:


> 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 …

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