#Ramones drums full
It had Ampex recorders, an 8-track, a 4- track, a stereo and two full track mono machines. It was one of the few small studios that had an eight-track recorder at the time. It was a small studio where many important clients made their demos. The place was called Dick Charles Studios and it was located in the United Artists building on 7th Avenue and 49th Street. It was the most amazing thing I had ever seen. I said, "Wow, can I come down and see the place?" And he was nice enough to invite me down. In 1968 I met a friend of mine on the subway, his name was Jack Malken, and he told me that he was an engineer at a recording studio. Were there any particular 'mentors' for you from those days?
What was the studio like and what did you learn from all that. I read somewhere that you were an assistant at some studio in New York City in the late 1960s. Besides the Ramones, Tom Erdelyi contributed his sonic wares to bands including The Replacements, Redd Kross, Talking Heads (their first single), Collider and the Continentals. In the late 1970s he decided to step down as their drummer to keep from being distracted and ravaged by touring and the like, opting to focus on and hone his recording and producing skills. He produced and/or co-produced their legendary records in the early phase of the band's career. While he and original members Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee drove the band onstage and freed the souls of the audience at a time when music was overtly polished and sometimes contrived, Erdelyi also acted as creative seer to the band behind the recording studio console. Erdelyi is the legendary foundation to the band, because without this Hungarian-born musical mastermind, the band, in many ways, would not exist. Tommy Ramone, is the band's original drummer and only surviving member of the original lineup. They took the world by storm and inspired a multitude of musicians to form bands with a similar spirit, letting loose musically with maximum energy. The New York city-based Ramones arguably began and boosted the punk rock movement back in the mid-1970s.
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