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...Joey, phrasing like a girl-group singer with nothing special in the way of chops. His everyman voice, weaker every year from the strain of constant touring, was all the more effective for being so ordinary. It was a voice that didn't call attention to itself. No strutting rock god here, no Robert Plant...
...York City, and everything was different. I came with all the other kids from all over the country who couldn't make it where they were. I was going to start an East Village band, I was going to play CBGB, I was going to run into Joey around the neighborhood, and the boring part of my life would all come to an end. I was going to get my second chance. And oddly enough, it kind of happened that way, for me and a lot of people I knew...
...When Joey passed, I made a few phone calls and talked to some friends and saw some of the same raw emotion I hadn't felt since John Lennon got shot in 1980. Joey was a good guy, a hero to punks and fans of punk; he was like Mickey Mantle or Orson Welles, a man both loved and respected. And punk mattered, it changed lives like jazz did or the '60s did. It was only stupid when it wanted to be; if you couldn't hear that, you would never break on through to the sheer sensual pleasure...
...Thanks, Joey...
...online set list by Joey, featuring his comments and samples of the tunes he loved, can be found on the Uplister site...