They were four working class construction worker delinquents from Forest Hills, Queens who were armed with two-minute songs that they rattled off like machine-gun fire. It was enough to change the earth’s revolution, or at least the music of the time. It was an assault. Someone asked Johnny Ramone once why the songs were so short. He said, „They’re actually fairly long songs played very, very quickly.“
The Ramones were a blueprint, a blueprint so necessary at the time. That fact alone is so important for everything that came after. Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth was saying that he can’t think of a band or a musician these days where the Ramones weren’t a very important part of their life. John McBain, a great musician from Seattle that I know, said something – and I think he spoke for the whole Seattle community when he said, „The Ramones were our Beatles.“
und damit wäre alles gesagt
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