Vampire_Or_a_Vixen?
The Fly
- Joined
- Sep 29, 2000
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So John Entwhistle is dead, all of a sudden everyone becomes a Who fan. 'I loved him so much, I'll miss him dearly. Blah blah boo-hoo.' No you won't, a week from now after you get tired of Tommy again you won't think about it until the anniversery of it next year. The same thing happens with any famous musical death, George Harrison, Joey Ramone, Kurt Cobain, Hendrix, on and on. The media tends to equate death with greatness, I really don't think many people would remember Janis Joblin if she hadn't died in the middle of her career. The media blows into a spectacle.
I mean honestly, who actually gave 2 shits about Joey Ramone before he died? Was he some great poet? Amazingly talented musician or personality? No, just 'that other punk guy, not Johhny Rotten.' I'm not say to any actual longtime Ramone fans that he wasn't cool, but it just seems to me that people jump on the bandwagon of whatever musician just died and stake their claim of fan-dom in the wake of it all because it's convienient. Seems like a farce to me, but I might be wrong.
I mean honestly, who actually gave 2 shits about Joey Ramone before he died? Was he some great poet? Amazingly talented musician or personality? No, just 'that other punk guy, not Johhny Rotten.' I'm not say to any actual longtime Ramone fans that he wasn't cool, but it just seems to me that people jump on the bandwagon of whatever musician just died and stake their claim of fan-dom in the wake of it all because it's convienient. Seems like a farce to me, but I might be wrong.