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

[Alexander Smith]

Rotten's also a complete wind-up merchant and consummate revisionist.  
Also quite convenient that he's waited until Johnny, Joey and Dee Dee  
were DEAD before making such claims.

In any event, Richard Hell wrote "Blank Generation" before the  
`Pistols wrote "Pretty Vacant."

Face facts, Mary Poppins -- it started here. Get over it!

Alex in NY motherfucking C!!!


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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