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Joe Strummer

  • 27-11-2008 3:19am
    #1
    studiorat
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    What about that Joe Strimmer film tonight.
    What a legend.


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  • #2
    Valcin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭Valcin


    Yeah, i stayed up to watch it. A legend. Talk about dedicated to the idea of never selling out. He was a fundamentalist. So dedicated that to the idea that he ended up doing nothing for what should have been the most productive years of his life. They quit right at the top but probably best for their legacy. They will always be seen as a real cult band cause of that.

    Just shows what a great band they were when the bloody drummer is able to write the whole song Rock the casbah and Mick Jones wrote Should i stay or should i go, two of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time. I got their new live album last week- Live at Shea stadium, one of their last gigs and they were unbelievable live. Not the stereo typical punk band, they were really tight and accomplished musically.

    It would have been great though to see where they would have gone after combat rock, songs like rock the casbah and straight to hell were very original sounding and mick jones was trying hard to push for a more groove based sound cause he was mad in to the new york hip hop scene.

    Savage documentary. Wrecked now.


  • #3
    11811
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭11811


    ah dang! I missed this, what a band! shaped so much stuff that we hear today.


  • #4
    jtsuited
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    my favourite strummer moment ever is when the manager suggests he should go missing as a publicity stunt.
    Then the bould Joe actually pulls a runner to France and does go missing, leaving the manager knee-deep in sh1te.

    Hilarious.
    good documentary, only saw the second half of it though.


  • #5
    Seziertisch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Seziertisch


    CBS promoted the Clash, not for revolution, just for cash ...


  • #6
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    First record I bought off my own bat was The Clash the album. I remember bringing it home and Janie Jones being the first song...

    Never been the same since...

    I thought the soundtrack for the film was great I wonder is it available?


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  • #7
    DamagedTrax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,277 ✭✭✭DamagedTrax


    seen it in IFC when it came out last year. great film!


  • #8
    tweeky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭tweeky


    Great documentary, but to think they didn't sign to CBS for the money is foolish. By signing to CBS they became part of the business of making money, the only ones that cared about the music part was Joe and the band.
    Great pop, great songs and great production, "London Calling" still sounds better today than any release this year.


  • #9
    PaulBrewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,790 ✭✭✭PaulBrewer


    Missed that ...


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