Wow, what a blast from the past! It was a sad day when Joey died. But remember, Bonzo also went to Berlin Wall. Joey may have been a great artist, but as a political thinker, he was right in line with the superficial left.
Oh, I know. I don't think they were geniuses by any stretch, although some of them may have seemed so by virtue of sharing a stage with Dee Dee. Dee Dee was known for being dumb as a box of hammers. He famously kept flubbing his one line in the movie Rock & Roll High School. The line? "Hey, pizza!" Strange that 3/4 of that band is dead, including Johnny, who was a die-hard Republican, NRA member, and Bush supporter. (You likely already knew this.)