ROCKIN’ PALADINS TO THE PUNK VESPIARY

Like no other band from those halcyon days of nouveau punkdom, the Ramones were essential, much I needed spirits. Phantasms who took the stage with a smirk, a shrug of the shoulders, and a perfect mastery of the rhythms of the moment, their rockin’ wraiths somehow always managed to reflect back to appreciative audiences all the growing pangs of changing tastes and attitudes.