R.I.P. Tommy Ramone

[Saintly_Loser]

Follow-up:

This really merits its own thread, but I see that Charlie Haden died a couple of days ago.

I’m posting it here because I’m thinking of Tommy Ramone and Charlie Haden at the same time, and remembering how much I enjoyed the music they both made.

It’s hard to think of two musicians who were more different, but they both made music that meant a lot to me.

[SuperNelson]

This said it all for me: http://imgur.com/JvbiSmW (SFW)

[aruvqan]

@Saintly_Loser

That’s that, then – they’re all gone.

Way, way back in the seventies, I was a teenager in New York City. CBGBs was our regular hangout, mostly because beer was cheap and the door people weren’t too picky about checking IDs.

I loved the Ramones. I and my friends had no idea that there was a “movement” called punk, or that the Ramones were ever going to be significant in any way. We just knew they were the best show in town. They’d slam through their whole set in about 30 minutes, barely stopping between songs. There’d be a couple of seconds when a song ended, and then Dee Dee would should “onetwothreefour” (without any relation whatsoever to the tempo of the song they were starting) and they’d be off again.

For sheer energy and joy and just plain fun, nobody ever beat the Ramones.

Been there, did that … Saw the Ramones at least 4 times that I can remember, probably more but I was too drunk at the time to remember.