It’s kind of like a black-and-white memory, a cool rock ’n’ roll memory. I just remember I met (Iggy Pop) at a party in the Flats. Over the years, The Pretenders have played many memorable gigs in Northeast Ohio. The Pretenders - known for such hit songs as “Brass in Pocket,” “Message of Love,” “Talk of the Town,” “Back on the Chain Gang” and “My City Was Gone” - come back to Northeast Ohio for a Tuesday show at the House of Blues and a Feb. While the album was critically acclaimed, the project didn’t feature Chambers, who, along with Hynde, are the last living original members of The Pretenders (in the early ’80s original guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and bassist Pete Farndon died of drug overdoses).ĭuring a recent phone call to his North London home, The Vindicator talked to Chambers about his memories of Cleveland, why Hynde decided not to include him on the recording of “Break-Up the Concrete” and, perhaps more importantly, why he holds no grudge. native, who left the group in the mid-’80s only to return less than a decade later, describes his friendship and personal connection with Hynde, who last year released the group’s ninth studio effort, “Break Up the Concrete.”
Perhaps it’s the wine or the fact that for more than three decades he has been living in the shadow of Chrissie Hynde, but Martin Chambers, drummer for The Pretenders, is talking honestly about his relationship with the Akron native.īent but never truly broken is how the U.K.
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