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"&amp;quot;You guys having fun or what?&amp;quot; Andrew W.K. asked the sold-out crowd   at New York&amp;apos;s Santos Party House club last night, a knowing smirk on his   face. W.K. was fronting Marky Ramone&amp;apos;s Blitzkrieg band, and they  kicked  off a world tour with a breakneck, 90-minute gig of back-to-back   Ramones classics &amp;#x2013; the snappy, formulaic punk jams that shaped and  defined the  genre. The booze swilled. The fists pumped. The moshing and  onstage  thrashing was ceaseless.\r\nMarky is the only living member of the longest-running Ramones   lineup, but he wasn&amp;apos;t a founding member of the band. He replaced Tommy   Ramone in 1978 as the quartet steered into poppier territory, recording   their Phil Spector-produced classic End of the Century. He  left  for a brief stint in the Eighties but ultimately logged 15 years  in the  Ramones&amp;apos; ranks until their split in the late Nineties. Many  members of  the band passed away in the 2000s: singer Joey Ramone died  from lymphoma  in 2001, bassist Dee Dee from a heroin overdose a year  later and  guitarist Johnny from cancer in 2004. Marky first played on  other  influential punk LPs, including Richard Hell and the Voidoids&amp;apos;  1977  debut Blank Generation, and got his start in the pioneering American metal band Dust.\r\nPhotos: Marky Ramone&amp;apos;s Blitzkrieg with Andrew W.K. in New York\r\nMarky&amp;apos;s past made the heaviness of Friday night&amp;apos;s performance all the   more appropriate; his quartet steamrolled through 25-plus Ramones hits   and more obscure fan favorites, embodying the &amp;quot;Blitzkrieg&amp;quot; in their   name. They didn&amp;apos;t pause once in the first 50 minutes: &amp;quot;Judy Is a Punk,&amp;quot;   &amp;quot;I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Sheena Is a Punk Rocker,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I Wanna Be   Sedated&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Rock &amp;amp; Roll High School&amp;quot; all received rapturous   sing-alongs. There was a nonstop froth of crowd-surfers jumping onstage   in leather jackets and hoodies, dancing or hugging W.K., then falling   into the pit. During &amp;quot;The KKK Took My Baby Away,&amp;quot; no less than seven   fans were onstage shouting in unison.\r\n\r\nUnlike the awkward Joey Ramone, W.K. is a cheerfully  aggressive,  hyper-confident frontman, and he was in his element Friday  night. (He  also owns the venue.) Giving fist-pumps and animated facial  expressions, clad in his uniform of stained white jeans and t-shirt, he  brought his own  flavor to the Ramones&amp;apos; catalogue. He has a knack for  igniting crowd  involvement, imbuing a sense of concert camaraderie  that&amp;apos;s infectious  and admirable.\r\nAndrew W.K. Feels the Love at &amp;apos;My Little Pony&amp;apos; Convention\r\nWhen the band finally stopped to catch their breath, literally, W.K.   shouted, &amp;quot;Where else to start a world tour than in punk&amp;apos;s hometown of   New York?&amp;quot; The venue erupted, then chanted&amp;#xA0;, &amp;quot;Marky! Marky! Marky! Marky!&amp;quot;   It was well-deserved; at 56, the drummer was dead-on all night, even  on  astonishingly fast songs like &amp;quot;Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment.&amp;quot; (As  W.K.  joked, &amp;quot;We couldn&amp;apos;t find a drummer, so we found a guy on the  corner and  his name is Marky Ramone.&amp;quot;)\r\nFittingly, Marky Ramone&amp;apos;s Blitzkrieg closed with &amp;quot;Blitzkrieg Bop&amp;quot; and   the venue exploded in cheers. W.K. stood on the edge of the stage,   shoved the mic into his crotch, rolled his eyes and flailed his arms   like a drunken squid while Ramone pounded out a drum solo. &amp;quot;Twenty more   songs!&amp;quot; a fan screamed when the band left the stage.\r\nRamone was clearly pleased by the crowd&amp;apos;s enthusiasm. &amp;quot;It was obvious,&amp;quot; he told Rolling Stone afterwards. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m definitely looking forward to the tour after that.&amp;quot;\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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