Marky Ramone
and the SPEEDKINGS
June the 6th 2002 - Dee Dee passes away just days before he was meant to be recording a live album with Marky Ramone on drums
June the 9th 2002 - Marky Ramone and his latest band the
Speedkings go into the studio to record a tribute"I've Got Dee Dee On My Mind" is an upbeat celebration complete with samples of Dee Dee counting in "1 2 3 4" and backing vocals from Fifi of the Japanese band Fifi & The Mach III
On the flipside we have Marky sharing the vocals with Nick Speedking for "Chinese Rocks" a song co-written by Dee Dee with Markys old bandleader
Richard Hell and originally made (in)famous by his drinking buddies the HeartbreakersIts now been released as a cool 7" single on HDP Records from Sweden
Buy it today direct from the record company while you can
Theres only 1000 copies of it - 500 on black vinyl and 500 on hotly coloured red/brown sort of like the spinning disk above
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