--- - |- Friday saw a tribute party called 'In Loving Memory of Johnny Ramone,' a charity fund-raiser to honor the late guitarist of the punk-rock legends The Ramones, held at his gravesite in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Fans viewed a concert from 1988 projected onto a mausoleum wall, and also a 1932 cult carnival film 'Freaks,' which is [...] ~~- The Ramones
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--- - |- For any of us who grew up listening to rock and roll, air guitar was an integral part of the experience. "Air guitar is inherent to anyone who listens to rock music," says Craig Billmeir of Alameda, while noting that his old roommate's two-year-old begins the air guitar motions whenever a Ramones record is put on. "No one taught her that." Billmeir knows a thing or two about air gu...
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Converse will be putting out a Ramones inspired Chuck Taylor All Star sneaker later this summer in collaboration with The Gap's (Product) Red line, which helps raise funds to fight AIDS in Africa. According to a press release. Chuck Talyor's were worn by the members of the Ramones, and the shoes became a staple in punk culture. Designed to symbolize the way the band wore their Chuck Taylor shoe...
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The other day I made a pit stop at a bar I don't regularly visit to get a couple of pints on the fly when, just as my first oat soda was served, a commercial flashed across the wall of TVs behind the bar. It featured slam-dancing soda pop cans who were partial to the classic Ramones tune "Blitzkrieg Bop.":http://rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=75817&si=rhino I thought: "somewhere, so...
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*CUZ I FRIGGIN CAN'T !!!* Please go to my PAGE - if you can get there - to read the entire post... THANKS !!! TRUST ME, I would LOVE to get my thoughts down in the world of MOG - I shared the experience of a lifetime with 8 other people whom I now consider & LOVE like family... They are expressing their throughts & ideas regarding our trip to the SoCal desert & if I am lucky I can post a com...
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The other day, MOGger laureate lucystarlite opined that Wham’s “Last Christmas” was one of her guilty-pleasure holiday favorites. (http://mog.com/lucysilverlining/blog_post/129146) And she started me to thinking about my own obsession with Yuletide music. I’ve got it bad, and have been this way since childhood – despite my Judaic roots.I’ve got to admit that there are all too many Xmas
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Christmas Eve, as I was out with the boys running some last minute errands, I got the greatest thrill. My youngest son Josh was listening along to the mixtape (in CD format) in the car, and _singing along_. Wouldn't that just melt your heart? It did mine, especially on a very trying day otherwise.Thus, the idea for a final Christmas present was hatched. I spent that night figuring out songs tha...
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Marky Ramone drumsticks. Yeah, we get that. Marky Ramone condoms? That's where you loose us. In an attempt to make sex rock with a condom Ramones drummer Marky Ramone has teamed with Ready Two Go, a safe sex company, for his own line of condoms. The hook-up came in time for last week's national condom week. Marky and Ready Two Go were looking to promote "safer sex kits" in a "cool, hip" way. Ea...
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Mikey RamoneHappy Halloween to the entire MOGiverse from the Knife - and those bone-chilling Ramones!Now, Joey and the gang insist that you go down to the basement (touch the ominous red button above, if you dare) - or hie thee to a pet cemetery (watch the creepy video clip below, and shiver in fear)!
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After forming in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1974, the Ramones performed 2,263 concerts, touring virtually nonstop for 22 years. A spokesperson for Rhino Entertainment issued a statement explaining details about the upcoming end all collection of live Ramones. ??It’s Alive 1974-1996?? features more than four hours of rare and previously unreleased concert performances From around the worl.
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Featured here are the following tracks:1. "Loudmouth" by the Ramones (1976)2. "EMI" by the Sex Pistols (1977)3. "Deny" by the Clash (1977)4. "Lipstick" by Buzzcocks (1978) and5. "I Want You Dead" by the Undead (1982)These groups are of course well-known but I'm calling these songs "lesser-known" only because no MOG posts feature them as their main songs, and that includes 69 Ramones posts, 50 S...
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("*Click here to argue with Socrates and make him drink the hemlock...*":http://www.mindspring.com/~mfpatton/sclinic.htm.(Sort of...)And, no, this is not a post that should have been before the previous one...The statement of Socrates after his condemnationj (according to Plato):No doubt you think, gentlemen, that I have been condemned for lack of arguments which I could have used if I had thou...
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I'm not sure Dr.Spock recommends this, but right before bedtime we put on a little rock and roll show. My son says ,"turn out the lights and introduce me dad." Then he unveils his costume and lip-synch rocks out. In the past he's done some of his other favs like Donovan, but lately he's been asking for the Ramones. The phrase, "be careful what you wish for ,"comes to mind.
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Two tributes to the Ramones will take place on Friday, June 29th. The premier of Too Tough Too Die, a two part documentary celebrating the legacy of the Ramones will premier at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. Produced and directed by Mandy Stein, Too Tough Too Die captures the 2004 Ramones 30th Anniversary Concert, which took place at the Palace in LA. Ramones members Tommy, Mar...
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What music has shocked you senseless lately? What did you hear that you never quite heard before? Did a song come along that made the hair on the back of your neck bristle from the thrill of it?I remember the first time I heard “Street Fighting Man” by the Rolling Stones, and “Eight Miles High” by the Byrds, and “Caroline, No” by the Beach Boys, and “I Thank You” by Sam & Dave, and
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