Marky Ramone remembers Joey Ramone

Marky Ramone, drummer of The Ramones, paid tribute to Joey, the late Ramones frontman, with Revolver
posting the article on the tenth anniversary of Joey's passing.

Revolver: What do you remember about meeting Joey?
Marky Ramone: "Joey would be hanging out at the bar at CBGBs or Max’s Kansas City and he would always make comments about [Marky’s first band] Dust. Also, the Richard Hell and the Voidoids album I did came out. He liked the album a lot and liked “Blank Generation,” ’cause they would play it a lot in the jukebox at CBGBs. Joey was a very quiet and introverted person, but when he went on the stage, his histrionics came out and he became the perfect lead singer. His voice, to me, was the greatest. He knew how to scream, he knew how to sing, and he knew how to phrase great, and he knew how to use vibrato in his vocal delivery. And then when he came off the stage he was quiet again, and he built up a wall around himself, around a lot of people because he was a very shy guy."

Revolver: What were some of the best times you spent together?
Marky Ramone: "Doing Joey’s solo album [Don’t Worry About Me, released in 2002] was a lot of fun because he was sick at the time when he was doing his solo album. And he asked me to play on it, and I could see the joy on his face cause he always wanted to make a solo album. So he finally got his opportunity, and he was coming in and out of the hospital to do the vocals. Luckily, the best solo song that he did was “Wonderful World” that came out of that album [as a single]."