Tommy Ramone, the drummer and last surviving original member of influential US punk band The Ramones, has died aged 65, the group announces.
Kinda funny how the rest of the group being dead can 'announce' anything isn't it
I personally thought they where way overated especially after seeing them perform live...completely crap, sounded god awful & was one of the biggest disappointments ever having shelled out a lot of cash for the ticket's. It's a credit to the producer's & engineer's that they sounded so good on vinyl. Obviously they had a way of keeping them off the heroin just long enough for them to play all 3 chords they knew in tune
Non of them where actually called Ramone, 'Tommy' is really called Erdelyi Tamas & came from Hungary so shattering the myth that they where a group of American brother's & pretty much lived off the hype for there entire career having never achieved any real commercial success.
Not really hating on them, just tired of hearing how they 'invented' Punk rock...Bollocks! Just yer (below) average garage band if you ask me.