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Happy Birthday, Johnny Ramone! The iconic punk guitarist would have been 64 today.

Johnny Ramone (October 8, 1948 – September 15, 2004)
Photo © Scott Beale / Laughing Squid

Happy Birthday, Joey Ramone! He would have been 61 today.

It instantly made half our album collection obsolete.
Producer Daniel Rey on the Ramones debut album, End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones

Gone to the Beach

I’m taking some time off for a little R ‘n’ R of a different kind. See you next week!

Michael Monroe Band performs “Blitzkrieg Bop” live at Kafe Antzokia, Bilbao, Spain on May 22, 2011

Good Bunnies Get The Carrots

Ramones Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

Well it’s about time.

Punk pioneers the Ramones received a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Grammys. On hand to receive the award were Ramones drummers Tommy and Marky—Richie made a speech but apparently didn’t receive an award?!—and accepting on behalf of Johnny, Dee Dee, and Joey were Johnny’s wife Linda, Joey’s brother Mickey Leigh, and John Cafiero, who manages Johnny’s and Dee Dee’s estates.

Enjoy this playlist that includes the acceptance speeches, as well as some red carpet footage with Marky.

Here’s a Beatles/Ramones mashup by Mighty Mike called “For No Bop” combining “For No One” and “Blitzkrieg Bop”

Here’s a video of four of the songs the The Ramones played on a 1977 episode of Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert: “Loudmouth,” “Judy Is A Punk,” “Glad to See You Go,” and “Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment”

RIP Johnny

RIP Johnny Ramone, died September 15, 2004
Photo © Scott Beale/Laughing Squid

Do You Remember…The US Festival?

Ramones perform at the 1982 US Festival

The Ramones was the second act that played the first day of the first US Festival as part of a lineup of punk and New Wave bands. Now, 28 years later, thanks in part to the technical ingenuity of festival organizer and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, you can watch the entire (awesome) set from your personal computer in the comfort of your own home.

Here’s the setlist:

  1. Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio?
  2. Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
  3. Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
  4. I Wanna Be Sedated
  5. Beat on the Brat
  6. The KKK Took My Baby Away
  7. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
  8. Chinese Rock
  9. Teenage Lobotomy

(via Slicing Up Eyeballs)