Before a screening of Pulp Fiction at the Hollywood Forever cemetery in Los Angeles, Rancid’s Tim Armstrong led a solid Ramones tribute band through a half hour of classics, culminating in a finale of tunes with Billy Idol leading the way.
Billed as The Cretin Commandos, Armstrong and the crew, which included CJ Ramone on a few tunes, blasted through 14 Ramones or Ramones-adjacent covers in a blistering 29 minutes.
As the founders intended.
The occasion was the annual Johnny Ramone Tribute, presented by his widow Linda Ramone, to benefit the Johnny Ramone cancer research fund. The legendary guitarist and co-founder of the Ramones died in 2004 at just 55 years old after battling prostate cancer for five years.
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