Street Corner to Be Named for Joey Ramone

boston has mark sandman square, right?

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/alternate-take/joey-ramones-first-45-and-robert-wyatts-lost-hendrix-session-20131206

David Fricke re Norton records issuing a 16 year-old Joey Ramone produced 45 from 1967 of his brother's band

In 1967, 16-year-old Jeff Hyman of Queens, New York was nearly a decade away from inventing punk rock as Joey Ramone. He was already making records. In the late winter of that year, he made an irresistible offer to a neighborhood psychedelic trio, Purple Majesty: He would take them into a proper studio and produce a single. The band – singer-guitarist Doug Scott, drummer Andy Ritter and Joey's younger brother, bassist Mickey Leigh, all barely 13 but writing their own tunes – jumped at the chance. Joey and Purple Majesty cut two songs, a group original called "In This Day and Age" and a version of the Blues Project's "I Can't Keep From Crying," at Sanders Recording Studios on West 48th Street.

46 years later, that single has finally come out. Lost-wild-rock specialists Norton Records have issued Purple Majesty's Joey-produced debut with lavish, if belated class: on purple vinyl with a picture sleeve. The label has done its best with the subway-tunnel fidelity, dubbing from the only surviving acetate, which Scott found lurking in an old Beach Boys album cover. Musically, beware: Purple Majesty were kids, at a time when School of Rock was a euphemism for geology class. Scott's solo on "In This Day and Age" is impressive, though, by the lopsided-grading standards of obscure garage-nugget collecting. The Blues Project song is evidence of a precocious hipness too; the original had only come out a few months earlier.

Historically, though, this is a sweet addition to Joey's legacy, probably the earliest surviving evidence of his determination to find a life in music. "Joey couldn't see any roadblocks," Scott says in the short liner note. Those would come later, as the Ramones fought their way into history. You can see teenage Joey looking forward in the cover photo: sporting glasses and short hair, sitting at a drum and holding up a xylophone stick like he's counting off a blitzkrieg bop.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/alternate-take/joey-ramones-first-45-and-robert-wyatts-lost-hendrix-session-20131206#ixzz2mwHqan9b

for him or after him?