The Pretenders - Martin Chambers & Pete Farndon interview 1981
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- Pete Farndon and Martin Chambers are interviewed in October 1981 on MTV, Martin explains how he injured his hand and why the rest of the Pretenders US dates are cancelled.
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one of the greatest new bands at the time , and it was gone as soon as it began. the original pretenders were the best
spiralacrobat ...they were!!! Chrissie, shit wanted to be her. She is still rocking. Rip PGF, MISSING YOU IN PHILLY. Danielle. Suotos.🕊🦅
pete farndon rip ..james honeyman Scott
got that right!
Saw them at The Dominion Tottenham Court Road in December 1981. Incredible.
This is a good honest interview by JJ. He shows that he actually listened to the music and has real opinions and questions,not just trying to play to the guys or make sensation. It was still about the MUSIC. Where as today, to so much.
It is sad that Pete and Jimmy are gone. R.I.P. guys.
I never understood the reason for musician on drugs, submerge in the bathtub and drown. If one has a drug problem, the last thing he/she needs to do is submerge in the bathtub.
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@@kamilebrahimoff3589 Junkies don`t usually bathe very often either lol
I love the smoking during this interview. So un corporate. I still have their first album; it's one of my most treasured possessions. And Martin Chambers drumming is exquisite. Pete and James, you're much missed.
Martin Chambers is one of the most underrated drummers of all time.
Back when the music business was real like you said un corporate and ironically this was the beginning of the end of those days because of MTV by the mid 90s the whole scene had turned on its head and by the early 2000s it was dead because of the internet and the beginning of streaming services which have put a knife in the heart of everything the music business used to be.
@@badmonkey2222 Exactly.
@@badmonkey2222 Killed what it used to be, sure that's true, but is that such a bad thing? As I understand it, the business back then was prety slimey and the artists got screwed left and right.
Now they have a direct line to the public and we have the opportunity to find new bands without some record company executive picking and choosing for us.
Yeah its different, but its possibly better.
You'd probably not know it by the videos but Pete Farndon was a really intelligent guy. I'd never seen an interview with him until now. What an amazing era for music. Such a great club that brought the British invasion together with New Wave. The influence was so present and powerful. If you're a musician nowadays you owe it to yourself and your listeners to study this era thoroughly. it's a giant treasure chest.
Yeah, I never would have guessed that he was a whiz. Even in this interview he makes me think so much of Nigel in "Spinal Tap", but he made a lot of quick and I think, clever, comebacks and comments here.
Aww man why did you do this to me? Really I'm appreciative, this is a great interview done by JJ Jackson RIP Rise In Power also with Pete & James. They have such a sense of humor balanced with seriousness about their art and show the Pretenders were a group, not all about the 'stars' or gimmicks. Martin is so cool and Pete is really funny and not the image of self-absorbtion that his promo pics and videos show. I'm ashamed that I ever thought he was some rocker punk because of his tough guy image. Salutes & love to these guys along with James Honeyman Scott and Chrissie Hynde. JJJ, Pete & James please welcome Bowie, Natalie Cole and Glen Frey warmly to that stadium on the other side.
Oh my God Pete Farndon was one cool dude
Sadly, heroin makes people look pretty cool
@@deathkampdrone In my experience it really doesn`t make them look cool at all,pretty soon it makes them look like crap and then they die.
Martin is a god.
@@deathkampdronemade me & everyone around me look like down&out bums with protruding cheekbones and rotten teeth
Yup you’re right!!! Look at Keith Richards in the 70s
Damn! You could fight crime with those side burns.
pete farndon seemed in good shape here
This is just before he started to change. Martin’s arm break gave them a gap in the tour and that’s when Pete got involved with the hangers on.
I was gonna' see them at The Ritz in NYC. The gig was cancelled because Chambers "hurt his hand". In an alternate universe I meet them outside The Ritz, we hang out, I somehow become their best friends. That's my story.
I feel so honored to have seen the original 4 in 1981 about 20 rows back. It broke our hearts when Jimmy left us soon after, then Pete after ..
Such a drag that drugs took so many musicians back then, broke up so many great bands.
Me too. Saw them at Dominion Tottenham Court Road London Dec. ‘81.
Martin & Pete were the epitome of cool. I would have been stoked to see Jimmy in the mix. For a brief time, the original Pretenders lineup had
that mojo working. The first two albums have aged well.
I was married to Ken Cooper of Brimstone Concert Productions in Calgary when Martin's injury happened and I stayed up all night with Ken rescheduling the Cdn Middle Western tour. Thanks!!
Pete Farndon seemed a wild character.
awesome !! Pete farndon is one of my favorite bass players
@Jeff Baker his style & gritty tough uninterested look were so cool.
@Jeff Baker yep them in 1st group was a freight train & happy early 80s years. I get lots out of the music.
He was nothing special as a bass player.just all image. JHS on the other hand was class
I've been listening again to a lot of attenders lately and you're right I never realize how great a bass player he is he was
Two Cool Englishmen. Chambers is one of those superb British drummers that have been around for decades. And they know who they are( if still alive). The Pretenders are a wonderful band.
Pete Farndon died two years later, in 1983. Heroin overdose.
great interview. just 8 months after this Pete was booted from the band b/c of drug use. and another 9 months after that, he was dead, in 1983 !!
so sad really. he seemed very together here.
and to think Keith Richard was a druggie for all those yrs and is still here today !
Do you think Pete getting booted helped cause James' death a few days later as well as Pete's death in 1983?
@@redrocks1983 yeah, hard to know isnt it. drugs are a gamble. your body might tolerate how much you think you can ingest, might not.
Keef could afford much better quality gear,that`s why he survived it...Same as Lemmy.
I was at the Philly show the night Martin cut his hand-we talked to the guys when they pulled up in the alley on the side of the Tower Theater they were always nice and loved their fans! The band picked the tour back up in January in Philly and I was back for that show. My buddy and I were the lucky ones-when the house lights went down we rushed the stage, I can remember banging my fists on the stage during Louie Louie - fun times!
I remember Pete Farndon sadly dying as I copied his look in the late 70s with the punk ted hair etc..My band were doing a radio interview in 1983 when the news item before us just announced Farndon's death..it really threw me and I still think he is much under appreciated..Mystery Achievement was a killer bass line..not sure if he or Chrissie Hynde wrote the line but it is a classic..much missed Pete!!!
Pete actually attended public school and was highly intelligent. He had a great sense of humour, such a shame drugs killed him and Jimmy. He might not have been technically gifted but I still loved his playing especially on Message of Love. Around this time Pete told Martin he wasn't coping following a break up with Chrissie with her hanging out with new man Ray Davies, Jimmy tried to attack Davies backstage. I don't think he ever got over her and ramped up the heroin use. Martin got ditched by Chrissie a couple of albums later but she brought him back, good move. When MTV was good, I miss those days.
Chrissie was banging the band?
Martin left on his own accord.
Wasnt kicked out
@@macadoo2530 "He was one of the original members in 1978, but he was fired in 1986. Band leader Chrissie Hynde said at the time Chambers was canned because he wasn't playing his best"
Martin had issues, allegedly. CH only hired him back after she had bought out whatever rights he may have had from the original band or so MC said in a recent interview.
@@PoppysGuitarI do think Chrissie treated him badly though. She fired him saying he was poor at Live Aid and during the Get Close sessions. He wasn't bad at Live Aid, even Led Zeppelin were poor there. He did admit he lost enthusiasm after Jimmy and Pete died to be fair. But then Chrissie started saying she'd never liked the rhythm section which I thought was mean. Martin is a good drummer, their music did have a lot of different timings which he was able to handle well. Then she brought him back in 1994 saying she'd missed him terribly and saying how good he was only to keep dropping him again. I saw them a few years ago and Martin was playing better than ever. She could at least have invited him to play at Glastonbury last year seeing as he's from just outside the area.
I think, without exception, everyone who loves The Pretenders feels the same way, post Jimmy & Pete. ‘Middle of the Road’ was a diamond; it lacked the tight rawness, but felt the early timbre, and that was very welcome.
Pray up.
Pete Farndon looks like out of the Ramones. (And Martin Chambers could have been in that band, incredibly fast drummer)
Bloody good interview, makes a change from the vacuous airheads on TV today.
What a freakin" history this band had! Imagine how completely scary it would be to find yourself as a big time rock star drummer and suddenly the tendons in one of your hands are just about sliced through! The 70's are over, it's been years since Janis and Jimi, and then, three years in, the Pretenders lose two of four members to drugs. Whoa.
wailinburnin ...time, time hear the bells chime...friggin flies...🤗🤓🕊😉😲 Dont it???
I think he was asking some pretty good questions, that J.J. Jackson. The media back in the day were usually unintelligent about musicians and bands. He actually gave Pete maybe a bit too much credit, asking if he had a "jazz background". But yeah. This is a rare clip.
Unlike the other original VJs on MTV, JJ Jackson had a pretty extensive career before he joined up.
+gkctex Check out his interview with John Lydon and Keith Levene if you haven't already. JJ did a great job with someone (Lydon) who is known to be prickly, to say the least.
@@Gerkinstock When it comes to interviewees, Lydon had nothing on Lou Reed. Reed and 'difficult' are synonymous.
Didn't expect much from this video from the first minute, but I was really surprised. Another reason to love these guys!
Nice to hear accents from my county in rock n roll!
Ooh-arr ooh-arr lolol
no doubt, they had a certain rough edge that was never recaptured.
this is gold!
yea..totally agree with you "as soon as it begun..it was over in the same fashion"...even though they put out 2 cool albums..it seemed the time that they were happening was so brief...sure would've love to seen another 6 or 7 albums from them...but unfortunately..that was never meant to be...((
Happy birthday, Pete. Still missed.
Let this stand as a warning to anyone that wants to dabble in drugs.
starting 9;29 chambers nails it - the variety of the material, not playing hard rock all the time. i think chrissie and honeyman were key to that.
Pete looked a lot like Chrissie.
fucking miss Pete
Smoking inside a building, the good old days.
it was GRAND! back when people were relaxed & accepting.
And dying from passive lung cancer. Just to pretend to be cool and relax...
Btw, I was a fu-ck-ing arrogant smocker, not caring or paying attention to non-smockers.
+Olive Eisner And it was genuine ! Now people are "relaxed" & "accepting" because political correctness demands it 😉
dam shame Jimmy & Pete couldn't keep their drug use in some sort of check..sad..((..they were so badass back in the day....Talk of the Town...Tattooed Love Boys..etc..
Man I still love your channel and website so much! And of course i've stopped stealing your stuff now 😄. I hope all is well my friend, these video's get me through tough times ❤
I think Chrissy's words about the lalent energy from Jimmy's creativity hanging around for years after he passed shows just how big this band were and could have been. I did hear that after Jimmy's passing Chrissy did consider bringing Pete back.
Pete Farndon looks like he could have fit in with the "heavy metal" crowd. If he had lived, I could picture him hanging out with Guns N Roses
Great interview!!
The Pretenders were so great there first 2 albums after that kind of lost there identity and never really got it back. Chrissie kept the band alive through the name but that's all it is now same name different band not just the musicians the whole feel of the band.
well when half the band dies its hard to keep them together!
+m hirch Amen!!!
Personally I really enjoy the third record but yeah you can tell a lot of the magic is lost from the first two albums with Farndon and JHS
chrissie did indeed write the lyrics . but chrissie herself said James Honeyman Scott was responsible for the unique and diverse
pretenders music or "sound" . Imho the pretenders first album was their best ever, to this day . they came out with some good singles with robbie MacIntosh on quitar . and even in 1986 with Crissie's had a few good tunes on album GET CLOSE "Don't Get Me Wrong" and "My Baby". Although the album was too over produced. it had an overlay that was too fucking i don't know what...yeah like dolby use to sound like if you know what i mean because i can't put it into words? different line up but still including macintosh . refreshing that she the rest of the band for this album and perhaps some live performances were black
including Blair Cunningham - drums, T. M. Stevens - bass guitar , and Bernie Worrell on keyboards. but after that she sorta went of society . In the 2000's she made a comeback . you can tell how bad young guitarists are these days because thats all she has to chose from for her live shows.
Wow. MTV used to be so good.
Seen these guys open for the Stones at Comiskey in the early 2000's. Chrissy told the audience that it was Pete and James's dream to open for the Stones.
LEGENDS
Great interviewer. He knows his stuff.
"shit, I haven't done any shopping" awwwe
Ironic' " Pete" They could replace me.
I was thinking the same thing...
Maybe he knew it was in the works? Maybe he knew JHS couldn't stand him. Maybe he knew CH didn't think much of his musicianship. Who knows.
@@PoppysGuitar Chrissie’s not a much of a guitar prodigy herself so I’ve always thought her assessment of Farndon’s musicianship was stupid. He was a good bass player who’s style fit perfectly with the band’s sound. It was probably more of a personal jab since they were in a relationship early on.
Wonder why JHS and Farndon didn’t get along, in all the live performances I see there’s a lot of eye contact and smiling between them.
@@Nick-ne4ln I think that they got along fine until it interfered with the job as Jimmy, in Chrissie's words, "hated anything to stand in the way of music". I get an idea just by reading bits that Martin and Jim were tighter. The three were close though.
@@Nick-ne4ln Jimmy turned against Pete when his heroin addiction got in the way. He even married a US woman without telling his girlfriend back in England! Pete started playing too loud and out of tune so Jimmy told Chrissie "he goes or I go". The horrible irony being JHS died before Pete after taking a big coke hit despite trying to get clean.
Where is James?
Pete says 'they could replace me'....and they did...shame it went down like that
rockers, rolling
Love the boys. Spoof from Mtv?
look at them side burns
I was obsessed w MTV from the second it launched. Remember the 24 hour countdown? Well, when I saw those first Pretenders videos I instantly fell in love w Chrissie and immediately bought those records. I highly recommend her audio book “Reckless”.
changin tires ,upstairs bro I shot my mouth off and you showed me what that hole was for
One of the top 5 rocks songs of all time
Martin Chambers looks like the punk in the bar fight at the at of ‘The Ninth Configuration’.
Breaks my heart. But I am life long fan. " Can you see it' in the home" the Punky party! X
Now I know where Conan O'Brien based his appearance
To lose Jimmy in ‘82 and Pete in ‘83 would probably have ended lesser bands but Chrissie was always there.
don't forget Martin
anyone remember pete playing with aussie band the bushwackers
No....
Yes. I knew Pete. And Jimmy. Came from the same town. My husband was a drummer who was given first chance of being theirs as he played with Pete in cold river lady.
So, those 'next few weeks' were Pete's undoing? He doesn't seem stoned here. By December he had a sleeve on left arm.
'By early 1982 Farndon's drug use was causing increasingly strained relations with his bandmates. He became increasingly belligerent and, according to Hynde, "was in bad shape. He was really not someone you could work with."
manager Dave Hill fired Farndon on 14 June 1982'
maxti6 Pete is definitely 'under the influence' here, it's very subtle (if you know the signs) and at least he's not completely off his face, like others have been when being interviewed. SO bloody sad that from this he then just continued downhill.. what a waste, there was so much Pete had going for him.
He never got over Chrissie breaking up with him especially as Ray Davis was hanging around. He told Martin he couldn't cope even on this tour.
According to all the sources, now known, he was fired bc JHS simply didn't or wouldn't go on with him in the band. No one knows exactly happened that a rift had developed between them. As CH says, "Jimmy just stopped talking to him." (I believe that PF had been involved with JHS's sister before the band got together.) Whatever the case, according to CH's autobiography, JHS simply ordered Peter to be fired and wanted him fired or he would leave. Martin was always too mild mannered to say no to JHS and CH had her own issues with PF but once JHS became the leader of the band, musically, PF's days were numbered. JHS forced the issue and PF was fired. Then of course the ultimate tragedy, JHS fired himself off the planet.
Are you sure that isn't Hall and Oates?
@PoppysGuitar There weren't drug issues as far as I know. In fact from what he's said what happened with Pete and Jimmy scared him. I know he got divorced and the loss of the other two sent him off the rails a bit. Chrissie was quite mean to him though yeah. She did admit the band didn't even sound like The Pretenders anymore once Martin left and they became an American band really, then she was relying on U.S writers to get her hits again. Martin is a great performer too and his backing vocals are underrated. For me they haven't got the same appeal without him but I do like the guitarist and bassist she uses now, they do sound like The Pretenders should sound I think. I do wish she'd have treated him better though, it must have been hard for him being hired and fired so often.
Pete reminds me of Sid Vicious so much
God bless the PRETENDS!!!
Agreed, Robert. What could have been....
Pete Farndon looks like Christie Hynde’s brother.
Pete died doing a speedball while in the bath, passing out and slipping underwater. I've never done drugs due to him and JAMES dying from drugs.
One of the best bands ever. But not me baby, I’m too precious, f*** off
Tight rhythm section, even here!
At 5.34 Pete, ‘they could replace me’, guess what?
Maybe he heard the wind in the trees.
...the Winds of Change. 🤔
CH should never have sacked Pete over smack. Considering she was a heavy user herself. Did that cause JHS to take too much Charlie to compensate.
She didn't as we now know.
My uncle worked at a record store in Harvard Sq in Cambridge in the late 70s and early 80s where he'd get comp'd into a lot of shows and had bands come in for in-store signings, etc, as a perk for the gigi. Apparently, Farndon and James Honeyman-Scott used to hang out in town when they came through, gacked out of their gourds. Huge waste of talent with both of those guys.
hah, they're in bits..
Pete Farndon Reminds me of the infamous Ian Watkins both had this rock n roll attitude but took it too far
Ian Walkins didn't have a 'rock n roll attitude', he raped babies.
Unfair on Pete that, Watkins was a child abuser and totally depraved.
Pete has a Dee Dee Ramone look going on. Right down to the smoking. And the heroin. What a gutter drug.
It is so sad what cocaine drugs can do to talented musicians, die at a young age,
R O C K
Martin Chambers had lackluster fashion sense.
Some the things they were asking to do were ridiculous
Like performing seals.
chris bennett .....??????
Grass in pocket...
Drugs
see how phoney these promo videos for mtv were and are. is there still an mtv. AND YOU DON'T LOOK AT MUSIC; YOU LISTEN, DANCE, PLAY IT, GET HIGH ON IT.
Anon Frank Back in the day, we did enjoy it...from 1990 on , MTV devolved into crap tv.
coke
...ice cold, with pizza! 🤔
MTV sucks... MTV and Apple have destroyed real bands.
I agree !
This was a great group especially Chrissie.
I can't believe even then they were redefining Christmas time as happy holiday season.
to include the jews on some obscure festival affecting precious few.
These rebels should of rebelled against this dictatorship.
Robert Byers you know whatBobby...here is proof in your comment bout the merry xmas, happy holidays...back in the eighties, who gave a damn!? Now days all of you are ripping each other for what, exactly? Jew this, Christian that, Muslem this, Buddism that...get the point??? It must be so damn difficult to be a younger person now days. Too frigging serious...or something.
Jeff Baker if you mean what i think u mean, as to this comment, then we agree. Seriously, its about the music.🤗
...ooh, SHIT...wow...i need a hobby.😲😆😂
I wish Pete had done little dry-out kicks with the heroin like Burroughs recommended, good for the soul, it's why I'm still alive, myself, and I ain't talented like Pete was, I have wicked survivor guilt, why did I live through it and he didn't? A lot of heroin users didn't die because they were addicts, they died because they were pigs. Have a sense of limits with the stuff, okay guys?!...He who binds himself to a joy, does the winged life destroy. Kiss the joy as it flies and live in tomorrow's sunrise (Blake)
Now I know where Conan O'Brien based his appearance