![]() It was a friendly, competitive situation. It seems like you were crossing paths very often. And actually I saw Mark play at the Club 82 as well with Wayne County. ![]() There was also a place called Club 82 that I played out with my band, and that’s when I first saw the band called the Stilettos. It’s kind of about just the way you look at life and anything goes and being optimistic and taking chances. It really isn’t about clothes or an image. And eventually we all got too big to play there anymore, so we had to move on.Ĭ.B.: The attitude of punk rock, I think, still continues on in New York City and in the world in general. I played with Wayne County and Richard Hell, The Voidoids, always in the Ramones. And, you know, there were a lot of homeless. What stories do you have from the CBGB days? New York has changed a lot since them. He played with them until 1982, when he left to go to rehab. When the drummer, Tommy, left in 1978, Marky auditioned for the group. At that time, he began to frequent the New York music venue CBGB, where he saw The Ramones play. Marky’s music career started with the formation of his first band Dust in 1971. (It is estimated that Blondie has sold more than 40 million records.) The group, however, decided to disband at the height of their success in the early 1980s, and they did not reunite until 1997. Thanks to the advertisement, he met Debbie Harry, the band’s vocalist, style icon and frontwoman of female punk rock bands including Blondie, with whom she achieved overwhelming success. So yeah, they were definitely a big influence.īurke joined Blondie after reading a newspaper ad in March 1975. And for impressionable young men and women, I think the Beatles really revolutionized just about everything in the way we looked at life at the time. Families would gather around the television to watch. These were my influences as kids, because when I heard the Be My Baby and those drum fills he did, I was very interested in the drumming.Ĭ.B.: Everyone in my generation was influenced by the Beatles, because when they came on television, when we were all basically kids, the Ed Sullivan Show in America was a show that everyone watched on a Sunday night. But then you had Keith Moon and then you had Hal Blaine, he was always there. M.R.: The British invasion, in ‘64, then you had The Who in ‘65, and then I moved on to drummers that were heavier and I liked the British invasion drummers. One of your main influences are the Beatles. ![]() I added symbols and I played to the hits of the day, to the Victrola. You said that you started setting up your drums when you were a kid, piece by piece. Marky, you will be doing a rock DJ set in Ibiza, which is known for electronic music. ![]() I mean, talking about these young kids freaking out. M.R.: I just got back from a four-country tour of South America. And yeah, we just started rehearsals and before it begins in Glasgow on April 22. I’m rehearsing for the upcoming Blondie tour. Next time you will meet each other will be on the Spanish island of Ibiza, right?Ĭlem Burke: If we don’t meet on the street beforehand in New York City.Ĭ.B.: I’m in New York. At the Contrastibiza festival in May, for the first time in their careers, they will play together the music that has influenced them throughout their lives–the sounds that led them to create their own. There, they are warming up their engines for their next performances. The drummers spoke with EL PAÍS from New York. Both of their bands defined the counterculture of their time, leaving a legacy that remains to this day. Their personal and professional paths have intersected before: they both grew up in the New York of the 1950s, they came of age with the live music of the city’s legendary nightclubs in the 1970s and they reached the peak of their careers when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Ramone in March 2002, Burke in March 2006). Marky Ramone, 69, played with The Ramones in two different eras, and Clem Burke, 67, was one of the founders of Blondie and has also played with the Eurythmics and The Ramones. They have been called two of the best drummers in the history of music.
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