Side A: What About Me
Side B: Leave Me Alone (IT IS NOT Chatterbox even it is listed
in a sleeve and vinyl).
Line-up:
Dee Dee Ramone: Guitar, vocals. (RIP 2002)
Richie Screech: Guitar. (RIP 2008)
Alan Valentine: Bass, (vocals)
Scott Goldstein: Drums
What I (Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone) do know, there are four pressing of
that Dee Dee's 7' single. I
heard that first two pressings were both only 3000 copies. On every
pressing has different color of the vinyl, colors are: black, green,
red and blue.
What About Me is in my opinion one of the best tracks Dee Dee wrote
after he quit the Ramones. And I meant what impression gives the
original version about What About Me. It is certainly a better version
of what is in a Dee Dee Ramone: Hop Around album.
I got my first version of this Dee Dee Ramone And The Chinese Dragons 7'
in around 1995 and as I live in a small city I didn't knew then anyone
having any record that has Chatterbox written by Johnny Thunders.
Also note: YouTube was founded 10 years later.
Chatterbox is listed everywhere as a B-side of this single (I write
this update on May 31, 2026). Edward Marr wrote me on May 31, 2026:
"I've a question. I have the Dee Dee Ramone And the Chinese
Dragon What About Me single but the B-side is not Chatterbox. Do you
know what the B-side song actually is?"
I love What About Me but I had not listened to the B-side for maybe 20
years. I listened and listened it again I noticed song is Leave Me Alone
from Johnny Thunders' album So Alone (1978). NOT
CHATTERBOX.
BARBARA ZAMPINI (ZAMPINI-RAMONE) IN A STUDIO
WITH THE CHINESE DRAGONS IN 2008
Kim Webb told me in 2026 about a speial recording session in 2008.
She told me the original The Chinese Dragons had re-united after 15 years at
the Sagamore Studios in Detroit, Michigan, USA in July, 2008.
Singer-bassist Alan Valentine is a husband of Kim Webb.
There is released by The Dee Dee Ramone And The Chinese Dragons
single What About Me /
Chatterbox in 1993.
As you know, world lost Dee Dee in 2002. Band invited to studio Dee
Dee's wife Barbara Zampini (Zampini-Ramone) in 2008. She traveled to
Detroit, USA, and she played together with the Chinese
Dragons in a recording studio there. They covered a Johnny Thunders song
One Track Mind. So that great and really cool session happened 15 years
after the original Dee Dee Ramone And The Chinese Dragons recordings.
One Track Mind etc. is not released by any record label (yet). See
video
here / listen the song.