Stephen King and The Ramones

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Edward John

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On the liner notes of the We're a Happy Family tribute album (which is very good) SK talks about having dinner with the Ramones. If they went to Stephen's house, you wonder what the Ramones were doing in Maine.

But I also recall something about the Ramones helping SK setting up a music festival. Can't remember where I read that though.

Here's more about the Pet Sematary song. I actually have a single cassette tape of that. Those were shortly sold here then, it's like a vinyl single, but on tape. It has only two songs just like most vinyl singles.

Stephen for some odd reason denies they ever went to his house. But Marky and Dee Dee talk, in their books, about how they discussed Stephen's house collections, like sci-fi films, just weird. Than again, this is a guy who can't remember writing whole novels!
 
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Edward John

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They were accepted on general talkshows and the hosts sit close to them, so it can't be that bad.
I think it was their image, more than anything. Because they make raw music and dress in leather jackets people assume they must be bad behaved. But most lyrics are more funny than threatening.
The Ramones wanted to save rock and roll, of course the establishment didn't like them, all the good it did, The Ramones saved Rock and Roll.