I’ve always liked soul drummers, so I applied their feel to that song. The beat on the opening tune, “Stone Woman,” has a groove/soul kind of feel. I used a Rogers drumset, and it took me about four days to do the basic tracks. I think the album’s great because it has a lot of energy. It was basically quarter-note playing.ĭust was my first album, and I was about sixteen years old. It’s busier, there were more fills, and there aren’t any 8th notes on the hi-hat, floor tom, or ride cymbal. The drumming on the Dust stuff is totally opposite from what the Ramones was all about. We sat with Marky on a rainy New York afternoon in 2007-immediately after he completed a two-hour taping of his weekly Sirius Satellite radio show, Punk Rock Blitzkrieg-to take a look back at some of the highlights of his discography. Marky stayed with Hell for a year before beginning a fifteen-year run with the Ramones. Then the young drummer teamed up with punk icon Richard Hell (of Television fame) to form the Voidoids in 1977. His first gig, the power-rock trio Dust, raised some eyebrows in the early ’70s with their Brit-inspired heavy metal sound. Marky has also appeared on several records as a sideman and as a leader, and he’s traveled around the world speaking about his experience as a member of one of America’s greatest rock bands.īefore he became known as the relentless rhythmic force behind the Ramones, Marky (born Marc Bell) was a prominent figure on New York City’s underground rock scene. In recent years, Marky’s been a catalyst behind various Ramones compilation CDs as well as the documentary DVD Raw, which was created from the drummer’s personal camcorder footage. Although he’s not the only drummer to have adopted the Ramone surname-Tommy was the group’s original drummer and Richie took over for a period in the mid-’80s-Marky Ramone held the longest tenure with the legendary punk pioneers, appearing on eight studio albums and several live discs, while also globetrotting with the band up until their final show on August 7, 1997.
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