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Here’s the theme song for a proposed TV series I’ve been writin’ up: “The Forest Hillbillies!” –set, of course, in Forest Hills, Queens, NYC. wish me luck.
Mickey Leigh – vocals, guitar, bass
Neil “Whitey” Benezra -drums
Happy days are near again! Here’s another sample of my fourth coming slide project Mickey Leigh’s New Yorkestra! Dance of the Synthepunks (M. Leigh) sliding into my warped vision/version of Jimi Hendrix’s Manic Depression. Enjoy!
Featuring guest vocalist Steven Sane on bass , Neil “Whitey” Benezra- drums, Mickey Leigh – guitar
Used Lester Bangs lyrics, from our Birdland days, for this one..
Recently recorded demo is Matty Quick-drums, Dave Merrill- bass, ML -vocals, guitar. As you may suspect, I’m dealing with a slight emotional crisis.
Will pick up the pace real soon.
It’s a beautiful song tho, I think?!
New music from my New Yorkestra. Well, new to you. Joshua Lyon- vocals, Neil “Whitey” Benezra – percs, me – guitar, bass, vocals. The Truth Is On Trial — M. Leigh. Just the facts.
Here’s an interesting tune from times past. My friend Harry Slash sent me a CD with the song we co-wrote/produced in 1999. It’s the entrance “theme” song for ECW wrestler “Super Crazy: The Insane Luchador”. I’m playing all the guitars. The song’s called El Guerrero Nomad. Arno Hecht on sax and clarinet. Sounds like a Mexicali Bar Mitzvah- on the beach! and on the range.
Listener-sponsored radio station WPKN (89.5) FM (also wpkn.org) welcomes a new program to its line-up: “Chris Frantz the Talking Head” hosted by Chris Frantz, musician and producer and a co-founder of the Tom Tom Club (together with his wife Tina Weymouth) and a co-founder of the legendary band, The Talking Heads. His first show will be Friday, March 26, from 1 to 4 p.m.
The premiere of the monthly “Chris Frantz the Talking Head” show will take place on Friday afternoon, March 26, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. (same time on the fourth Friday of each month) Frantz will be spinning music and will also welcome into the WPKN studio Mickey Leigh (brother of the late Joey Ramone). Leigh’s recent book is called “I Slept with Joey Ramone’.
UPDATED: CLICK HERE for archived audio
“Sound Opinions” interview with Mickey and Legs is running Friday 3/12, then podcast 3/15! http://www.soundopinions.org/
Podcast now available: http://audio.soundopinions.org/podcasts/sooppodshow224.mp3
BLITZKRIEG BOOK
Bad-boy swagger was definitely a big part of the Ramones’ appeal, at least where Dee Dee and Johnny were concerned, but lead singer Joey (real name Jeffry Hyman) evoked something altogether different onstage: a dark and intriguing awkwardness that ultimately came to personify cool in a new way, a punk way. The book, “I Slept With Joey Ramone,” penned by his brother Mickey Leigh and N.Y. underground chronicler Legs McNeil, provides an enlightening look at Joey’s childhood, his early love of rock & roll (who’da thunk Richie Valens’ “La Bamba” was his first fave rave?), his struggles with OCD and the tempestuous love triangle that tore the band apart. At the L.A. Q&A/book signing at La Luz de Jesus Gallery Saturday, Leigh was joined by Rock ‘n’ Roll High School star P.J. Soles, director Alan Arkush and longtime Joey buddy Howie Pyro (a former bandmate of aforementioned Todd Youth in Danzig, D Generation and Chelsea Smiles). Leigh exposed some interesting tidbits at the event. (“We never, ever sniffed glue,” he said of his and his bro’s experimentations. “There was lots of other stuff, though.”) Perhaps the most exciting revelation was the news that he just signed “something with Fox Searchlight Films.” Leigh was vague about the deal, but he assured that in no more than 10 years, a Ramones movie based on his memoir is highly likely, something many fans have surely been hoping for ever since Entourage put the idea in the fictional movie-land universe (as a vehicle for its hero, Vinnie Chase) a couple seasons ago. Could art imitate life with actor Adrian Grenier starring?
http://www.laweekly.com/2010-02-26/music/lusty-for-life/
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)...
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