From our advance, I was able to buy an over-sized Ludwig set. He was great because he had his own style, and not because he was a technician. When you get too technical, you sound like everybody else. I took their influences and mixed it up. After Dust, I did a blues record with Johnny Shines. He was good friends with Muddy Waters and B. King, a genuine blues guy.
The next thing I did was Blank Generation. This type of playing comes from guys like Joe Morello with Dave Brubeck, and Mitch Mitchell, who was really a jazz drummer. I was still into heavy-handed quarter-note arm playing. And I used a Ludwig Vistalite set for that album. Tommy Ramone wanted to produce after being in the band for three and a half years, and I wanted to move on from Richard Hell.
Dee Dee Ramone was a friend of mine, and he asked me if I wanted to join the Ramones. We arranged an audition, but I knew that I was going to get it. I was in the New York scene, and they knew me. They would come see Dust before the Ramones even existed. After I joined, the guys gave me twenty-eight songs to learn in two and a half weeks for a show.
Then I had to learn and record fifteen or sixteen studio tracks for Road to Ruin. I just studied day and night. The Ramones were all about straight 8th-note playing. Johnny and Dee Dee played constant down-stroke 8th notes. I had to learn how to play 8th notes on the hi-hat, ride cymbal, and floor tom, and keep it going for an hour and twenty minutes.
I just find a groove and keep focused. I use mainly fingers and wrists. I had the bottom heads off of the toms, and the mics were inside the drums. I used Remo black dots on the toms and bass drum, and I put tape with tissue underneath it to deaden the sound a little. The snare had a Remo Emperor with no muffling, and I always played rimshots. This was also when I started to use Paiste cymbals. The Paiste is the one that sounds like broken glass. It took me two days to do the drum tracks. We all played together, just in case we got a perfect track.
At the most, we did three takes of each song. Phil Spector liked the Ramones. He wanted to produce us, and we were all happy to work with him. It took me about a week to do all of the tracks. But it took four or five months to make the album because of the overdubs, the mixing, and the additional strings, horns, and percussion parts.
It ended up being our best-selling individual album. I also brought in some RotoToms, which I used to get a certain sound off of the echo chambers in the studio. Graham Gouldman was brought in to produce this one. I liked his production. And I love this album. At this point, I had a sponsorship with Tama. So I used a set on this album, with a Rogers Dynasonic snare. The songs on this album are good, but I hated the production. Richie Cordell got this ridiculous drum sound, almost like a drum machine.
And the snare drum was tuned really low, which gave it a papery sound. That sound was popular because new wave and dance music was coming in. A lot of bands were going electronic and experimenting. I like natural acoustic-sounding drums with no bullshit to them. To this day, I make sure that I get the sound that I want. You might not always achieve it, but always try. After we made Subterranean Jungle , I was asked to leave the band.
And when I drank, a lot of strange things happened. And that was affecting the attitude of the band. I did various odd jobs, like putting up wrought iron gates on crack houses. But at the same time, I was still making money from Ramones merchandise and record sales because I was still a part of the corporation. I did that for three years to get back in touch with reality. They tried to use Clem Burke from Blondie, but he only lasted for two shows.
So Johnny, the guitarist, was thinking about retiring. And he thought that they should get me back. The spring of , Marky joined the Ramones.
After several tours and a two more studio albums, Marky was asked to leave the band , only to rejoin his band mates in until they decided to call it quits in His tenure with the Ramones spanned a total of 15 years. Performing over shows and more than 15 releases, including songwriting credits on both Mondo Bizarro and Adios Amigos, the bands farewell release. Certified gold in three countries and currently the best selling Ramones DVD release to date.
In the spring of , Marky launched a capsule collection clothing line with Hilfiger Denim. It was the first Grammy for the punk rock pioneers. Marky is currently in his tenth year as a D.
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