RIP Tommy

[KevinNYC]

http://www.lapatilla.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20130128_tommy_ramone_91.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbDekaqw3lQ

What they want
I don't know
They're all revved up
and ready to go

[FrobeShaw]

RIP

[KevinNYC]

http://ramonesfanatic.altervista.org/images/Tommy.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVhjBmcOP30t=19m16s

The last of the Big Four is gone. He was the sane one, had a giant impact on their sound and was the last Ramone standing.
http://www.home-and-living.org/files/2013/07/the_ramones_logo_wallpaper-normal.jpg

Think i'm going to ride the G train today.
http://then00dle.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/dee-dee-ramone-joey-ramone-tommy-ramone-and-johnny-ramone-of-the-ramones-on-a-subway-in-new-york-18-july-1975.jpg

[KevinNYC]

He also produced a fantastic album for the Replacements

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz94lwT6Jm1r05oie.jpg

including this version of Can't Hardly Wait, which came out on a later albums with a horn section.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M7q5Mn3-oM

[KevinNYC]

NY Daily News Obit. (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/tommy-ramone-sound-style-helped-shape-essential-rock-band-article-1.1864284)


He created a beat that punched punk from behind.

Tommy Ramone's drumming — which slammed through the first, and best, three Ramones albums — operated with a jackhammer reliability and force. His rhythms provided the perfect mirror of Johnny Ramone's thrashing guitar, Dee Dee's throbbing bass and Joey's cries of "hey-oh-let's-go."

Tommy's deadpan rhythm locked into the band's sound like a dead bolt. He laced it with crashing cymbals that had the effect of glass shattering against a wall. The drummer also co-produced the second and third Ramones' albums, "Leaving Home" and "Rocket To Russia," both released in 1977.

[KevinNYC]

http://instagram.com/p/qW_kTrhY1Q/

[BasedTom]

RIP

[outbreak]

Sad news, liked him way more than Marky who is a big of a dick. So 3 of them died of cancer now.

[Lebron23]

RIp the the last of the Ramones.

[BasedTom]

RIp the the last of the Ramones.
Marky is still alive and he had a radio show a couple of years back. I think maybe it's still going on.

But yes, Tommy was the last of the original bandmembers.

[Lebron23]

Marky is still alive and he had a radio show a couple of years back. I think maybe it's still going on.

But yes, Tommy was the last of the original bandmembers.


Ok.

They were a great band.

[BasedTom]

dont scare me like that man i thought the green ranger died
:lol

I was scared since I thought it was Tommy Wiseau for a second.

[FrobeShaw]

thought it was tommy dreamer.
so relieved. :D

Classy

[KevinNYC]

Sad news, liked him way more than Marky who is a big of a dick. So 3 of them died of cancer now.

Yeah, you wonder what was on that van

I just checked and Arturo who designed their logo (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/arts/music/arturo-vega-spokesman-and-designer-for-the-ramones-dies-at-65.html) also died of cancer at 65. He used to live in loft around the corner from CBGB's which was also the Ramones practice space. Who knows what the loft was used for before he lived there.

[KevinNYC]

Marky is still alive.

So is Richie and CJ and even Elvis Ramone, but none of them were original members and none of them had any near Tommy's influence on rock and roll.



Sad news, liked him way more than Marky who is a big of a dick. So 3 of them died of cancer now.
Speaking of Marky being a dick by the way, is book would be out by now if he didn't keep firing his ghostwriters. He would have been primed to cash in on the publicity of Tommy's death.

[gigantes]

I just checked and Arturo who designed their logo (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/arts/music/arturo-vega-spokesman-and-designer-for-the-ramones-dies-at-65.html) also died of cancer at 65. He used to live in loft around the corner from CBGB's which was also the Ramones practice space. Who knows what the loft was used for before he lived there.
interesting. er, medically / scientifically speaking.

from what i've read, 3rd-hand smoke seems to have medical currency as a greater general carcinogen than 2nd-hand smoke... or perhaps just 2nd-hand stuff in general, such as solvents, cleaners, etc.

by "third-hand" i mean accumulated cigarette smoke (and whatever else) that inundates walls over time. i mean, apparently you can simply move in to a place but be irradiated by stuff from the sheetrock that the previous tenants so nicely left behind for you. :S

[outbreak]

Marky is still alive and he had a radio show a couple of years back. I think maybe it's still going on.

But yes, Tommy was the last of the original bandmembers.
Cj is still kicking around too

Marky was touring with Dez and Jerry Only awhile back too.

[outbreak]

So is Richie and CJ and even Elvis Ramone, but none of them were original members and none of them had any near Tommy's influence on rock and roll.



Speaking of Marky being a dick by the way, is book would be out by now if he didn't keep firing his ghostwriters. He would have been primed to cash in on the publicity of Tommy's death.
There's a great interview somewhere that has Marky and Joey arguing, pretty funny stuff.

[KevinNYC]

There's a great interview somewhere that has Marky and Joey arguing, pretty funny stuff.

Marky just did a tour playing Ramones stuff with Andrew WK on vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgfxzHyZt1o

I think that was on the Howard Stern show.