In a far away town?

Shane says...something at the end

quit holdin out, enjoy another breath.

After the Clash split Strummer went into exile making movies with Alex Cox. When he started performing again he barely remembered the lyrics or the titles of his own songs. He'd introduce White Man in Hammersmith Palais by saying "this is a song called midnight to six man first time from Jamaica."

Preliminary to this, the Pogues doing Dirty Old Town; it cuts to Joe backstage remarking how he'd been ill all week, but it would be stupid to stay in bed when the Pogues are in town. The song itself features Kirsty MacColl singing along with Shane, who botches the end and is none too pleased about it.

Got to see Joe Strummer just before he died. Probably the best concert I ever attended. I miss Joe.

When the London Calling album came out it helped me to convince my midwestern high school buddies that there was more to music than Foghat, Nazareth, Kansas. The only band that mattered at least for a part of my life.

RIP Joe

Just saw The Pogues over St. Pat's in NYC at the Roseland. The 3/16 show was better than the 3/17, but both were very good. That's two years in a row! After all those years of wishing I had seen them in their heyday, it was good to check it off the list.
Next up, Tom Waits.

FarkedOver: Got to see Joe Strummer just before he died. Probably the best concert I ever attended. I miss Joe.

He got much better after he died.

/not really

T.M.S.: FarkedOver: Got to see Joe Strummer just before he died. Probably the best concert I ever attended. I miss Joe.

He got much better after he died.

/not really

Too bad he died when he did, the clash were going to play at their Hall of Fame induction. That would have been amazing.

Best song he did with them is Tuesday Morning.

//Johnny Appleseed = awesomeness.

The new groups are not concerned

with what there is to be learned


+

they're all too busy fighting

for a good place under the lighting.


= how I perceive most bands I hear on the radio today.


//not old enough to say, "Get off my lawn"

Bless Joe and Kirsty both.

Favourite Clash song of all time? This is England.