The Wave: You were friends with Johnny Ramone, right? And didn’t he give you one of his signature guitars? So surreal – punk rockers dying of old age. Pete Yorn: Yeah, he gave me a Johnny guitar – an old one, the first one off the line of the series that he had made. And I actually played it at that Ramones tribute concert we did three days before Johnny died. But him dying? That was weird. When he passed away, they just kept him in the house overnight. In his chair. And so we all went up there and just sat with him. I thought I was gonna be really creeped out, but when we got there, it just looked like he was sleeping. And before I knew it, I was patting him on the shoulder, and we just sat around with him for hours.
oh yeah, and the pj reference?
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TW: Who else was there? PY: His good, good friends who were in town: Rob Zombie was there; Eddie Vedder. Yeah, it was a weird night, but it helped prep me for some other things.
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dirtyfrank0705 wrote:
These rock and roll people are fucked up.
You should see the rest of the interview!
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Yorn: Yeah, so then Ed took this little bong out, y'know like a foot-long green plastic job, and put it in Johnny's hand. Then he packed it up and sat down next to him and just started rippin' bingers off. At first I thought it was kind of bizarre, but we all took turns and pretty soon I was blowing smoke in Johnny's face, and I think, ... I think he was actually kinda diggin' it, if you know what I mean.
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punkdavid wrote:
dirtyfrank0705 wrote:
These rock and roll people are fucked up.
You should see the rest of the interview!
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Yorn: Yeah, so then Ed took this little bong out, y'know like a foot-long green plastic job, and put it in Johnny's hand. Then he packed it up and sat down next to him and just started rippin' bingers off. At first I thought it was kind of bizarre, but we all took turns and pretty soon I was blowing smoke in Johnny's face, and I think, ... I think he was actually kinda diggin' it, if you know what I mean.
oh my God.. that is crazy shit. haha just kidding. quite the imagination you have, sir.
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punkdavid wrote:
dirtyfrank0705 wrote:
These rock and roll people are fucked up.
You should see the rest of the interview!
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Yorn: Yeah, so then Ed took this little bong out, y'know like a foot-long green plastic job, and put it in Johnny's hand. Then he packed it up and sat down next to him and just started rippin' bingers off. At first I thought it was kind of bizarre, but we all took turns and pretty soon I was blowing smoke in Johnny's face, and I think, ... I think he was actually kinda diggin' it, if you know what I mean.
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conoalias wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
rapscallionyouth wrote:
dirtyfrank0705 wrote:
These rock and roll people are fucked up.
its really not that "fucked up". i wouldnt mind being in chair when i die and have people come by and bullshit for one last time.
Indeed. You would not mind one little bit.
Prior to death's having become an antiseptic sideshow, this was the norm. People stayed with their dead loved ones; in fact, the coffin was in your living room (when it arrived), and all the friends and neighbors would come by to pay their last respects to the dead and to give comfort to those left behind. What's odd to me is that the death experience has become sterile and removed, with social pressures rushing your emotional need to say goodbye to a person you have loved in a very human way.
I don't think there's anything odd about sitting with the body of dear friend for a while after they have died. A hospital lets you have a little while with a dead relative, but then begins the subtle pressure to get you out so that they can move the dead person out of the room and make money off another still-living one. While we've made many great advances socially, in the area of death, I do honestly believe that we have regressed. Death is almost treated as if dirty or catchy, and the need to grieve properly is very inadequately addressed.
I'm very happy that Eddie and the rest of them got the chance to be human, the chance to stay with the earthly remains of a friend for a while. I'll bet it was a very satisfying experience that they wouldn't trade for anything. And I'll also bet that they are more emotionally healthy for having slowed "the machine" down--to go at their own pace and say goodbye in their own way. I've heard the saying that it's not so much what you do in life that you typically end up seriously regretting, but what you don't do. I feel that I know from personal experience that this is true, particularly if you haven't done anything terribly bad in life.
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my dogs going to be dying in the next year most likely, and she's almost already passed twice (she suffers from a disease called Congestive Heart Failure), and not only is it going to fuck with me bad, but I get sad just thinking about it. The idea of having her laying around on the rug like she does, but dead, actually is a comforting idea, because it's seeing her/her body in a normal environment, but with her life passed. It might make things easier after the emotional work invovled with eventually having to carry her down three flights of stairs to the car to take her to wherever you take a deceased animal.
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That's pretty bizarre! Nice find.
