Now, fifty years after making their mark, Burke still keeps in touch with those still around from back then. In fact, Burke and Cheetah Chrome of Dead Boys were recently in the studio together, working on some of Chrome’s solo material.
“There were no CBGB T-shirts at CBGB. There were virtually no punk-rockers at CBGB. When it began it was basically a very New York, Lower East Side, bohemian atmosphere,” he shares. “CBGB was more or less like a cabaret at the beginning, with tables with little candles on them, like if you were going to a folk club or something. There weren’t people slam dancing. As you can imagine, 100 people sitting in chairs with little candles burning watching the Ramones is more like an art piece.
made Blondie a mainstream mainstay, and proved to be influential to the ensuing post-punk and new-wave movements of the 1980s, even after the group called it quits in 1982. Earlier this year, the record was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
While nothing has officially been announced just yet, Burke mentions that Blondie is working on a new album, its twelfth, that the band plans to share sometime next year. While the music biz might have changed a bit since Blondie’s 1976, the band’s vision and penchant for dipping into different styles, whether it be R&B or reggae, doesn’t seem so out of pocket nowadays.
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