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Drummer Clem Burke first met Iggy Pop while out on road in 1977 with Blondie – but that wasn’t his most memorable experience. “I later toured as part of Iggy’s band for six weeks promoting the Party album in ’81 and he was basically out of his mind,” Burke tells Classic Rock. “There was no food allowed backstage, only drugs and booze.” Pop memorably smashed a microphone into his own face at one point during this tour, dislodging a front tooth. Fans got a peek into the onstage madness with 1983’s Live in San Fran 1981, recorded in November at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco. A DVD version…