Former TWISTED SISTER/GOOD RATS Drummer Fast Joey Brighton Passes
May 16, 2010, 14 years ago
According to Moderndrummer.com, drummer Joe Markowski (aka "Fast" Joey Brighton), died this past April 14th. He was fifty-seven.
Markowski was well known in the New York area as a drum teacher in the ’70s, working out of VANILLA FUDGE drummer Carmine Appice’s Oceanside drum studio. Top drummers including Bobby Rondinelli (BLACK SABBATH, QUIET RIOT) and Joe Franco (GOOD RATS, TWISTED SISTER) studied with Markowski, who himself had played with the Good Rats and Twisted Sister.
Check out rare early '80's footage of Twisted Sister doing 'Under The Blade' with "Fast" Joey Brighton on drums below:
