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There are a couple of things right with that photo, but there are a lot of things wrong; the former made me smirk while the latter made me cringe (suck it in, Johnny Wannabe). BTW, Johnny Ramone became a Republican when he discovered that his relatives voted for JFK based on Kennedy’s good looks alone.
As THE seminal punk band of the 70s, The Ramones brought 3-chord garage band rock n’ roll back to the forefront of pop music, a venue that was overrun with over-produced country-rock, electronic theatrical garbage and big-hair-glam-rock bands.
While most of the country was oohing and aahing to The Eagles and Bruce Stringbean, ELO and EL&P, and um, ah *puke* Disco) these guys were kicking the gong at CBGBs, an obscure bar in NYC’s skid row, known as The Bowery.
Meanwhile the TV Trash pundits are guffawing that Eric Clapton went to a laundromat to –get this– wash his clothes. I really don’t know where I’m going with this babblethread. Kinda lost my train of thought, but don’t worry, we’re not derailed, because rolling on down the line comes the Big Ugly Wheels of The Overnight Open Thread.
Tags: Music, Overnight Open Thread, Punk, Ramones
