Hi folks, it's Joe. This is a bonus outtake from our interview with Clem Burke of Blondie.

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Well, I started playing when I was about around 10 or 11 years old, I guess.

Did you have lessons? I did, and I did drumcore. And I think that's where I got a lot of my

sort of chops from my endurance. People like Billy Cobham did, you know, drumcore. And it was really good for the basics

to learn the rudiments. It's really good for memorization. Yeah, I enjoyed the drum core, but I quit

because my band that I had in high school was doing really well. What was the name of that band?

That band was called The Total Environment.

Did you play covers or write your own tunes or what?

No, we played covers.

We actually got to record, though.

My first time in the studio was at WABC.

Studios on 56th and 6th.

There's a DJ who's actually still on serious radio called Cousin Brusie.

And they used to have a thing called Cousin'Brusie's Big Break.

And what you did was, you recorded a song on a cassette,

sent it in, or on a little reel-to-reel, whatever, and then

it got sort of reviewed by the Powers That Be, and then what you did was they took you

into the studio.

I was in W.A.B.C. I guess it was ABC Studios.

It's the first time in a professional recording studio. I remember we put all the amps in a circle and a couple of mics on the drums. We did a song by the band Blood, Sweat and Tears,

the first album with Al Cooper, a song called Something's Going On, which is actually

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