Was Johnny Ramone a Good Guitarist? 

Nobody can downstroke all night like Johnny... not Jimi, not EVH ,not Yngwie.

@@Jasonsg1210 james hetfield

Totally tough to get right

@@vitohwthe Ramones didn’t stop between songs very often. Also, the band played everything ten times faster live than on the records. No way Hetfield could go for an hour almost straight going that fast.

@@vitohw Hetfield doesn’t downstroke complete barre chords like John.

I agree 1000% about the downstrokes! That is definitely no easy feat. And yes, R.I.P. Johnny ❤

I never saw them play longer than an hour. Not that it matters much, I was just saying. Nobody could hang with him for that long with hardly any breaks between songs

90 minutes? Did they play every song they knew 3 times?

I completely agree!

The best hands down! GABBA GABBA HEY!

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Damn, show us where they touched you? Problem here is, Ramones was the Beach Boys rock period on steroids and they were better than the British punk seen by a long mile. I'm sorry they hurt you, but you're wrong on so many levels.

It's amazing that someone has an opinion without knowledge and isn't ashamed to voice it. "Their album had just come out and it had a huge impact on the metal side of punk. A lot of British bands wanted to sound like that. Everyone sped up afterwards." -Jean-Jacques Burnel (The Stranglers) "If that Ramones records hadn't existed, I don't know that we could have built a scene here because it filled a vital gap between the death of the old pub rocking scene and the advent of punk." -Joe Strummer (The Clash) "Sid Vicious was a massive fan. He tried to imitate them with his playing, but they were a lot faster." - Paul Cook (Sex Pistols) "The Ramones ...without whom there might never have been a Clash, Damned or Sex Pistols. Their music is up there with Beethoven, Bolan and the Beatles, fantastic stuff indeed! RIP Johnny Ramone." - Damned "All we had was the first Ramones album, and that inspired all of us." -Steve Diggle (Buzzcocks) "Everybody went up three gears the day they got that first Ramones album. Punk rock-that rama-lama super fast stuff-is totally down to the Ramones. Bands were just playing in an MC5 groove until then." -Tony James (Generation X) "I think the Ramones were probably the most influential band on that whole British scene as well. We went to see them and we thought, Wow, that's great. It was in-your-face rock 'n' roll, not dressing up and wearing silly masks and trying to look like a spaceman or anything." -10 Albums That Changed My Life: John 'Eddie' Edwards of The Vibrators The central fanzine of the early UK punk scene, Sniffin' Glue, was named after the song "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue", which appeared on the debut LP. Also see "When The Clash Met The Ramones: The Rise Of English Punk" by Elizabeth Greatrex, "These 10 bands showcase the Ramones' undying influence on music" by Alternative Press Magazine and "The night that punk went overground- July 4th 1976- an oral account" from Louder Than War. I didn't need to talk about the hardcore bands.

There would be no punk rock period without the American garage bands of the '60's (and before them rock in roll and rockabilly). I remember British punk bands being in awe of the Ramones. The Beach Boys were pretty good too.