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5 giorni fa · Apparently, the stage names adopted by the band members were inspired by none other than Paul McCartney, who would often check into hotels under the pseudonym Paul Ramon. Stage names and pseudonyms were commonplace throughout the punk scene, with Johnny Rotten and Richard Hell being prominent examples, but the Ramones took it to a new level.
2 giorni fa · Tommy, tired of touring, left the band in early 1978. He continued as the Ramones' record producer under his birth name of Erdelyi. His position as drummer was filled by Marc Bell, who had been a member of the early 1970s hard rock band Dust, Wayne County, and the pioneering punk group Richard Hell & the Voidoids.
9 mag 2024 · The twin guitar attack of Verlaine and Richard Lloyd had a spiky tremolo that identified them instantly. But they featured a romanticism that always emerged through the noise. “Marquee Moon” is a beautiful song, both lyrically and musically. It goes off on some raves but it never loses that melodious hook. Verlaine’s songs were inspired ...
8 mag 2024 · As one of the founding members of the seminal punk bands Television and the Heartbreakers, Richard Hell's impact on the early New York punk scene cannot be overstated. Combining poetic, introspective lyrics with raw, minimalist guitar work, Hell and his band, The Voidoids, crafted a sound that was both groundbreaking and deeply ...
9 mag 2024 · Richard Hell is a poet. But some of the greatest performers do things with rhyme, meter and allusion that can’t be captured outside of the song. Another favourite: “All these cars my kids inheriting when I think about it / All this money I can't cherish when I think about it”.
24 apr 2024 · 1) "Destiny Street Repaired"- Richard Hell & The Voidiods Hell was openly dissatisfied with the sound of Destiny Street, later describing it as "a morass of trebly multi-guitar blare." [7] Years later, when it was still legally owned by Marty Thau and his label Red Star, Hell tried to remix Destiny Street from the original 24-track session tapes, but he was told that they had been lost.
29 apr 2024 · This ultimately became ‘Blank Generation,’ the debut album by his post-Television band Richard Hell and the Voidoids. The tune had a lasting impact on the punk genre as a whole. The Heartbreakers performed a live version of the track, and the Sex Pistols’ ‘Pretty Vacant’ was inspired by it.
