Johnny Ramone

[JangoFett4Hire]

I just read in The Boston Globe that Marky Ramone thinks that

Johnny has very little time left. His body is ravaged by cancer. So

that's obviously sad news, especially with 2 founding members having

already shuffled off...

[tbondrage99]

Thats horrible news, The greatest punk band of them all are almost all gone now.

[Steviekick]

Man.

 

That's terrible. Johnny is a really nice guy. And he is truly one of the few people who are actually a free-spirit, punk...he's propably one of the only staunch conservatives in rock music.

 

Poor Johnny.

[Steviekick]

from Reuters.com

 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The guitarist with pioneering punk rock band the Ramones is fighting a losing a battle with cancer in a Los Angeles hospital, Rolling Stone magazine reported on its Web site on Tuesday.

 

Johnny Ramone, 55, whose real name is John Cummings, was diagnosed with prostate cancer four years ago, and it has now spread throughout his body, Rollingstone.com quoted the band's drummer, Marky Ramone, as saying.

 

"Johnny's been a champ in confronting this, but at this point I think the chances are slim," Marky Ramone said in the report. "John never smoked cigarettes, he wasn't a heavy drinker and he was always into his health. It just proves when cancer seeks a body to penetrate, it doesn't matter how healthy you are or how unhealthy you are. It just seeps in and there's nothing you can do."

 

The Ramones, famed for playing their high-energy, unpolished songs at breakneck speed, rose to fame in New York City in 1974, paving the way for such British punk rock icons as the Sex Pistols and the Clash.

 

The band made its mark with such tunes as "Blitzkrieg Bop," "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue" and "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker," but it never achieved the same commercial success as acts that followed in its path. The Ramones officially retired in 1996.

 

The band's singer, Joey Ramone (ne Jeff Hyman), died in 2001 of lymphatic cancer, while bassist Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) died from a drug overdose the following year.

 

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Wow. That is very upsetting. Johnny's a tough dude. He survived an almost fatal beating from one of the guys from the band Zero Construction who practically smashed his head in. He had all kinds of emergency brain surgery.

[kkktookmybabyaway]

So many other people are deserving of cancer, but not Johnny. Damn, and he was my favorite. I always wondered what those backstage conversations with other punk rockers who thought Reagan and Thatcher were Mr. and Mrs. Satan were like...

 

[jimmy no nose]

Some good news:

 

Johnny Ramone is not dying, according to his doctor.

 

The Ramones guitarist, who has been living with prostate cancer for the past several years, was recently admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles with what his physician, Dr. David Agus, told MTV News was a "complication from the cancer. But he got through it, and he's now on a new, experimental therapy. He's fighting courageously, and I think he will be going home in the near term."

 

Johnny's admission to Cedars-Sinai set off a nationwide — maybe worldwide — media death watch. He was said to be in an intensive-care unit, and very near the end. Characteristically, the 55-year-old guitarist, a stubbornly private man, refused to issue a corrective press statement. His wife, Linda, however, was appalled by the funereal headlines, and authorized Dr. Agus to explain Johnny's condition.

 

"He's not dying," Linda said on Wednesday afternoon (June 16). "He was okay for years, and he's fine now. He's in the hospital, but he's not in ICU. And I think he may be leaving by tomorrow."

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1488468/2...?headlines=true

[Steviekick]

Well, its very relieving to know that he's ok. I give him a lot of credit for privately dealing with prostate cancer the last few years.

[Guest Anglesault]

I'm not going to pretend to like the Ramones, but cancer is a brutal way to go. I hope he makes it

[Guest Brian]

I've had "Bonzo Goes to Bitsburg" (sans chorus) in my sig for a week or so, before I knew the news. This fucking sucks. We're losing a whole generation of music here.