If you’ve been around long enough, you may also know Ruby as Marco North, a mainstay of Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the ’90s. Heaven Get Behind Me, out November 20th on WhistlePig Records, is North’s first release in some time — and he’s lived enough for four lifetimes since then.
“Way back in the 90s I was playing tenor sax in a surf-punk band called Spitball. We were known as ‘the greatest unsigned band in the Lower East Side.’ And hey – Joey Ramone was at some of our shows at CBGBs! I’ve had a long and nutty road since those days, but the horn section in this song took me right back to that glorious, reckless past. I stood on a chair in our Moscow living room and played my heart out. I was right back there.”