Johnny Ramone Tribute Performed By Star Studded Lineup

An all-star lineup of musicians gathered at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday to perform a tribute to Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone.More »

By on August 29, 2018

An all-star lineup of musicians gathered at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday to perform a tribute to Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone. Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan, Sex Pistols’ Steve Jones and comedian Fred Armisen came together and performed punk rock classics for the crowd. They performed “Rockaway Beach,” “Danny Says” and “Judy is a Punk,” among other songs for an audience of few hundred. They also performed a rendition of the Sex Pistols’ “Pretty Vacant.” The annual event was organized by Ramone’s widow, Linda Ramone. Johnny Ramone was a founding member of the band. He died from prostate cancer on September 15, 2004. After the performanc, Armstrong shared his thoughts on the Ramones with Forbes, saying, “They seemed like a family, with the name and a gang or something like the Del-Lords or some kind of New York bunch of barbarians that could wield around a baseball bat. They’re known, just the leather jackets, the jeans and the thing I liked about them is they didn’t really play up the fashionable English mohawk punk. They were very American and very Americana. They got what the aesthetic was, especially for Johnny, who was a very proud American. So that sort of symbolized the Ramones.” Copyright(c) 2018 RTTNews.com. All Rights ReservedLess «