AFTER-SCHOOL SESSIONS 15 YEARS AFTER SCHOOL
LONDON—The brothers Ramone—four schlepps whose schleppiness transmogrified the traumas of career adolescence into an entire art form—constitute Americas greatest white gift to rock history during the past 10 years. And if you think thats an overstatement, you should be situated in the U.K.: stranded midway between California dreamers/L.A. hard-heads and Krauts who alternate three-chord steel-bashing with strolls down lonely street to Hotel zur Einsamkeit.
AFTER-SCHOOL SESSIONS 15 YEARS AFTER SCHOOL
IF ALL MEN WER BRUDDERS...
Cynthia Rose
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LONDON—The brothers Ramone—four schlepps whose schleppiness transmogrified the traumas of career adolescence into an entire art form—constitute Americas greatest white gift to rock history during the past 10 years. And if you think thats an overstatement, you should be situated in the U.K.: stranded midway between California dreamers/L.A. hard-heads and Krauts who alternate three-chord steel-bashing with strolls down lonely street to Hotel zur Einsamkeit. From the vantage point, its easy i to see how NO ONE within the domain of honky Hi-Fi affiliations has actually equaled the continuing musical and conceptual impact of the Forest Hills Four.
Born in the spring of 74, the Ramones began to break in the Bicentennial year and their subsequent turnover (which once nearly gave us a Richie, a George, and an Ira Ramone) has included a trio of drummers: Tommy Erdelyi, ex-Voidoid Marc Bell and, currently, Richard Beau (ËœRichie Ramone). Formerly of the Shirts and Velveteens, Beau has taken up the leather jacket laid down after Subterranean Jungle: its Marky on that meisterwerk of new vinyl.