Marky Ramone and Me

I grew up in Brooklyn, NY and went to Erasmus Hall High School. One of my best buddies was Marc Bell (that’s Marc on the left next to me). We both played drums at the time. We hung together for a number of years in the 70’s. I went on to play drums professionally for 20 years, before I switched to photography. Marc never stopped playing the drums. I hadn’t seen Marc in over 30 years. I’ve seen plenty of images of Marc, over the years. We simply hadn’t connected, face to face, until now. Not for a lack of trying. Through no fault of his, the organization he’s been with had a bit of a security net around him. Now that he’s more on his own, we finally touched base this morning and had breakfast together. We reminisced about old times. We caught up on how our lives unfolded; his wife and kids; and I got to find out about the rest of the old crew. He had a noon flight to Vegas, so, after about an hour and a half we hugged each other and said our goodbyes. My soul hath been stroked.

By the way; you probably know Marc more as Marky Ramone, the drummer from the rock band “The Ramones”… Hey Ho, Let’s Go!