Joey Poole (March 5, 1957 – June 1, 2020), known professionally as Joey Image, was an American punk rock

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. He joined the

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in November 1978. He was the drummer for both the "

Horror Business "Horror Business" is the third single released by the American horror punk band Misfits. It was released on June 26, 1979 through vocalist Glenn Danzig's own label, Plan 9 Records, and is commonly said to have been inspired by the unsolved murder ...

" and "

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" sessions of 1979. In December 1979, after the band's ill-fated tour of

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with the Damned, he left the band. After the Misfits, he was the drummer for the Whorelords. His most recent bands were Human Buffet, Psycho Daisies, the Mary Tyler Whores, the Strap-Ons, the Bell Ringers, Evil Doers, the Hooples, Jersey Trash,

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, and between 2000 and 2002 he was the drummer for

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. He also played for the Misfits on October 26, 2000, at Culture Room,

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, one day after

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had left the band along with

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. As the band had no drummer and was playing in the same area as Joey,

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decided to call him to play some songs such as "Horror Business", "

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", "

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", "Teenagers From Mars", "Hollywood Babylon", "

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", and "Where Eagles Dare". Eric Arce from Murphy's Law played the rest of the setlist songs.

Personal life

Image spent most of his life in

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, and later in

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. Some time after his 1979 departure from the Misfits, Image married actress and model

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and in 2003, he moved to

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. As of 2007, he had relocated to

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. In 2016, he was diagnosed with liver cancer and died on June 1, 2020.

Misfits discography

* "

" (1979) - EP * "

" (1979) - single * ''

Legacy of Brutality ''Legacy of Brutality'' is a compilation album of early songs by the American punk rock band Misfits, released in September 1985. It contains overdubbed mixes of previously unreleased songs, mainly from the January–February 1978 '' Static Age ...

'' Tracks 9 and 10 * ''

'' Tracks 4 through 8 * ''

Collection II ''Collection II'', also known as ''Misfits II'', a compilation album of songs by the American punk rock band Misfits. Released on November 14, 1995, it serves as a companion album to the band's previous compilation, ''Collection I''. Both compi ...

'' Tracks 6 and 7 * ''

Beware (EP) ''Beware'' is the fifth release by the American punk rock band Misfits. First issued in January 1980, this EP combined the Misfits' previously released singles " Bullet" and "Horror Business", and was originally intended as a recording that the ...

'' Tracks 5 and 6 * '' The Misfits'' Disc 1-Tracks 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 16, 25 / Disc 2-Tracks 9 and 10 / Disc 3-Tracks 3 through 14

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Personal life

Misfits discography

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Further reading

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