The legendary drummer of the Ramones Richard Reinhardt, well known as Richie Ramone will join “The Pasadena Pops Orchestra”. He will perform a 17 minute drum solo interpretation of Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story” to celebrate the 50^th anniversary release on Broadway.

“The Pasadena Pops Orchestra” featuring Richie Ramone will give three concerts on August 17-19 at Descanso Gardens, La Canada, Ca.

On May 31, the most popular punk rock band in Russia “Tarakany!” have released a unique mp3 compilation “Redkiye Metally”. It contains 57 tracks include demo versions, outtakes, the songs in English and German language, a few absolutely new songs and also 4 tracks of “Marky Ramone & Tarakany!” recorded in January 2005 at one of the concerts during their European tour “Ramones Night Tour”.

A new song “Stop Thinking” was written by Marky Ramone and an American blues musician Mayer Rossabi and recorded with the following line-up: Marky Ramone — drums; Rey Necari — bass, keyboards; Dacota MacLeod — backing vocals and Mayer Rossabi — guitar, lead vocals. The song is available for listening at Mayer’s myspace page.
Necessary to note, that it wasn’t the first work of Marky and Mayer. Together they have wrote a few tracks for Marky’s solo projects, including “Don’t Blame Me” which was recorded in mono and performed by “The Runaways” ex-guitarist and vocalist the legendary Joan Jett. In 2002 for the movie “Brooklyn Boys”, in which Marky played a small role, was written the song “Deadly Ties”.