carbona not glue


- bill 4-16-2001 3:44 am [add a comment]

I wanna be sedate.
Truth to tell, the Ramones never meant a thing to me. No doubt they were seminal, but also part of a real zeitgeist, which quickly produced high-brow forms of Punk, if that's not a contradiction (which it was, but that's why I preferred it). Still, there was something reassuring about seeing Joey in the flesh (such as he had) still haunting the East Village twenty years later. Here's more from the Post. Has the Times come up with anything more than the AP obit?
- alex 4-17-2001 3:06 pm [add a comment]

• they do today. the apobit was hot off the server the other night.
  - dave 4-17-2001 6:15 pm [add a comment]




• I'm not made for the nine to five world.
  
  Yuk, to Annie Powers tepid NYT assessment and same to the Post. I keep crashing my Mac trying to find NY Rocker to link to. I sat at my desk and cried listening to Hova's special listener request show yesterday morning. So many unique songs with specific memories attached / free of the punk cliches which would soon follow. The Ramones were America filtered through Queens. They were Freaks and they accepted us, "we accept you, we accept you". They took the west coast R&R of our youth and powered it up to a point of critical mass. Note the early covers : "Warm California Sun" and "Needles and Pins" (n & p is a Sonny Bono composition !!). Every thing changed because of them. The best of the Doll's mutated into the Heartbreakers (Dede co-wrote Chinese Rock), Bowie was over and Bolan was already dead. "....long live the new king : Joey." Not long enough by a long shot. Interesting to hear age 49 described as young. It is if your on boomer time.
  
  post-trama stress support
  
  
  - bill 4-17-2001 9:05 pm [add a comment]




• ELEGY TO JOEY RAMONE

  One night in a rock'n'roll dive
  Like a thousand I've sat in before
  I watched a shitty old punk rock band play
  And wondered why I should hear more
  But then the bald guitarist announced
  To the few in thick Cockney tones
  The news that broke my heart in two
  Of the death of sweet Joey Ramone
  

  Like Stiv and Johnny Thunders
  One more rocker's heart had to stop
  No more trips to Rockaway Beach
  And an end to the Blitzkrieg Bop
  Farewell to youth and rocking good times
  Now face your old age more alone
  Farewell to my gawky, beak nosed friend
  Farewell to sweet Joey Ramone
  
  --Mark Mellon

  Patricia Ragan Hoehner, who hangs with the Punk magazine gang, responded by email:

  "I forwarded this to John Holmstrom, Mark. He agreed that it was spot on beautiful. He's on his way to Joey's funeral and he said he would print it out and put it with the flowers/memorials etc. Thank you for this."

  She included this:

  "Don't be sad, cause I'll be there
  Don't be sad at all
  Life's a gas."
  
  --Joey Ramone 'Life's a Gas' from Adios Amigos

  Here's a picture of Joey and his mother, by way of Robert Bohn:
  
  
  - Tom Moody 4-17-2001 9:39 pm [add a comment]




• Is NY Rocker still around? I couldn't find a current site, but here's Lenny Kaye in the Voice.
  - alex 4-17-2001 9:40 pm [add a comment]




• guess JR outlived NYR
  
  LK for VV = (SOHHNSOH) sound of hammer hitting nail soundly on head - thanks! / ...but he would know.
  
  
  - bill 4-17-2001 10:03 pm [add a comment]




• Now I remember (I think). Didn't NY Rocker become EC (East Coast) Rocker. They are now a freebie, packaged with the Aquarian, or at least they were, I find an Aquarian site, but no mention of Rocker. Does remind me of another Punk era story. In college I knew a guy who worked for the Aquarian. He introduced me to another fellow who had once managed the Talking Heads. This was only 1978 or 79, but he told how he had met up with the band after they had hit the (relative) big time, and they knew who he was, but had to apologize because they couldn't remember his name. That's showbiz for you.
  - alex 4-18-2001 12:05 am [add a comment]

"Dee Dee Ramone, a founding member of the pioneer punk band the Ramones, was found dead of a possible drug overdose in his Hollywood home, the coroner's office said Thursday. He was 50."
- jim 6-07-2002 12:44 am [add a comment]