Saturday, July 12, 2014

Tommy Boy

Sad news--Tommy Ramone has died.  He was the last of the original four. They all died before their time.

His real name was Thomas Erdelyi--born Erdelyi Tamas--and he played drums on the band's first three albums.  He also produced their fourth--and their first four albums are their four best.  He'd go on to produce other fine bands, such as The Replacements, but he'll always be Tommy Ramone in our hearts.






2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Howard stern kind of adopted their look or did he look like that first?

5:22 AM, July 12, 2014  
Blogger LAGuy said...

The first time I saw Stern I thought hey, it's Joey Ramone. Maybe he was inspired by them, but I think it was a common enough look that he could have come by it honestly. (It's never looked that good on Howard, actually.)

11:00 AM, July 12, 2014  

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