Mickey’s Homemade Video for “See My Way”
November 11th, 2011 | By admin
From the YouTube notes:
“Home made video, by me, Mickey Leigh. My brother, Joey, had been seeing me cover this song since the late 80′s, He loved the shorter arrangement, the guitar solos, the harmonies, the energy, …all of it. One day he told me he was going to do it with the Ramones…and then he laughed. In 1994 Joey suggested he and I record it together.”
This video includes some great family photos that Mickey has diligently archived, as well drawings done by Joey himself, which Mickey found in Joey’s apt. This song is one that Mickey had been doing with his band years prior to Joey suggesting they record it together. Joey loved Mickey’s guitar playing, and prefered his shortened, energized arrangement of the song as opposed to the original written and recorded in the early 70′s by a band called Blodwyn Pig, which they both loved.
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Musician/author Mickey Leigh was born in 1954 and raised in the Queens neighborhood of Forest Hills, New York City. His career as a guitarist/vocalist/songwriter began in the 5th grade at the age of 10 when he formed his first band, The Overdose Of Sound. He was 12 when he recorded his first studio record with his second band, Purple Majesty (with his older brother Jeff acting as producer), and began playing shows in clubs in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. By the age of 14, Mickey was playing in a band and recording with 21 year old musicians John Cummings, and Tommy Erdelyi. (John, Tommy, neighbor Doug Colvin, and Mickey’s remarkably talented older brother Jeff, were later to become Johnny, Tommy, and Joey Ramone, after forming the world famous Ramones)...