Dee Dee Ramone
Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, July 2002
WITH THE DEATH of yet another Ramone, perhaps little really needs to be added at this point on how Dee Dee and his honorary brethren reshaped the whole gawddamn world (....indeed, Yours Very Truly was but one of the supposed Blank Gen who, within twelve hours of his first 1977 Ramones concert, put a band AND a fanzine together. I mean, Didn't YOU?!!)
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