Official Crash Thread

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Oops, sorry I meant "Official Clash Thread".

 

There's been so much talk about The Clash lately that I thought I would start a thread where we could all discuss The Clash, past, present and future...and here's where it all started!

 

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[rob_react]

Current Favorite Clash song.

 

Safe European Home

well, i just got back an' i wish i never leave now

who dat martian arrival at the airport?

how many local dollars for a local anaesthetic?

the johnny on the corner was a very sympathetic

 

i went to the place where every white face is an

invitation to robbery

an' sitting here in my safe european home

i don't wanna go back there again

 

wasn't i lucky n' wouldn't it be loverly?

send us all cards, an' have a laying in on a sunday

i was there for two weeks, so how come i never tell

that natty dread drinks at the sheraton hotel?

 

now they got the sun, an' they got the palm trees

they got the weed, an' they got the taxis

whoa, the harder they come, n' the home of ol' bluebeat

yes i'd stay an' be a tourist but i can't take the gunplay

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[goldust40]

I'd much rather talk about the Clash than the bloody Crash. Enough already.

 

They're my favourite band, apart from possibly Led Zeppelin and the Stones. And the MC5, of course. Saw them in 1978 and 1979. They never sold out, don't you know.

 

Vaguely interesting fact (which you may know anyway): Mick Jones collects comics. Low grade readers mainly, and his preference is for 50s/60s sci-fi. He's not concerned about investment. He bought a few books from me at a London show a couple of years ago, and they were all about £5 each. Nice bloke, very laid back. I didn't make a fuss, ask about the Clash or even point out who he was (I think he knows who he is, anyway).

 

Recommended album (apart from the obvious, i.e. the first album and London Calling): From Here To Eternity Live. Great stuff - better than the studio versions,in fact. Took me right back.

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Sitting with my drug addled college roommate and listening to Big Audio Dynamite

 

Drug Addled Roommate : (indignant) Man! They Ripped off The Clash so bad!

Me: Dude, it's Mick Jones. This is Mick Jones' new band.

Drug Addled Roommate: Who's Mick Jones?

Me:

 

This is the same guy who was "the biggest Bob Marley fan in the world" and he couldn't actually name an album. He played the hell out of Legend, but he couldn't actually name an album that Bob Marley actually released.

 

Great guy, but he had issues...

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If I stay there will be trouble

But if I go it will be double.

 

Well then, simple math would dictate that you "Don't Move a Muscle."

 

Rick

[AlexH]

You all smell like a dog's armpit...oh, wait a second, did you say crash, or crass???

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[drbanner]

Vaguely interesting fact (which you may know anyway): Mick Jones collects comics. Low grade readers mainly, and his preference is for 50s/60s sci-fi. He's not concerned about investment. He bought a few books from me at a London show a couple of years ago, and they were all about £5 each. Nice bloke, very laid back. I didn't make a fuss, ask about the Clash or even point out who he was (I think he knows who he is, anyway).

 

Tip 'o the hat to you mate for the interesting tidbit that makes this thread pertinent!

 

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[CompleteRunComics]

 

 

Yeehaa, it's the Crash, err, Clash.

 

CRC

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[goldust40]

Vaguely interesting fact (which you may know anyway): Mick Jones collects comics. Low grade readers mainly, and his preference is for 50s/60s sci-fi. He's not concerned about investment. He bought a few books from me at a London show a couple of years ago, and they were all about £5 each. Nice bloke, very laid back. I didn't make a fuss, ask about the Clash or even point out who he was (I think he knows who he is, anyway).

 

Tip 'o the hat to you mate for the interesting tidbit that makes this thread pertinent!

 

 

Thanks Doc. Glad to see that there are Clash fans across the pond.

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