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Fucking hell
SHIT!
shame ! no age to die that
It is quite an unfortunate death especially at such a festive time but I have noticed that they have missed out any reference to his most recent band "Joe Stummer and The Mescaleros" which was one of the shittest musical ventures fronted by anyone, in any genre.
This is from a post on the Mojo forum;
"Beyond all the great songs and the astonishing gigs, I'll never forget how Joe treated one young fan. After a gig at The Leicester de Mont on the 'Give 'em enough Rope' Tour me and a mate waited around to go backstage and get autographs. Even though there were hundreds waiting, the band made sure everyone got in. The manager, Caroline Coon, was asking everyone to hurry because the band were tired and there were so many people milling around. But in the middle of it all, Joe was patiently teaching a young kid the chords to 'Remote Control', placing the kids fingers on the strings and frets he'd carefully drawn on a fag packet so the lad could take it away with him and not forget."
I found that really moving
Oh gosh that is terribly sweet, what a great man, i dedicate two minutes silence to Joe and his underaged death.
Zal Yanofsky from The Lovin' Spoonful died this weekend, no cunt mentions that do they.
Strummer was writing a charity song with Bono, in other words, he had it coming
Who is Joe Strummer, and that dood you just mentioned?
following on from freak-a-chu's post, i cant help thinking poor old joe got the worst of both worlds. rather than burning out he began to fade quite embarrassingly, only to die at 50, without having the chance to properly turn rebellion into money. no doubt paul freakin' mccartney, eric clapton et al will be around for the next 40 years to subject us to shocking millionaire rock albums. when it comes to rock'n'roll there's no such thing as justice
To suggest that Joe faded out "embarrassingly" is as subjective a thing to say as Joe and the Mascaleros was one of the "shittest musical ventures fronted by anyone, in any genre". To those amongst us who was saved from the kind of fret wankery and meaningless Tolkienesque lyricism of late seventies rock, by British punk, and in particular Joe Strummer, I find such comments banal and sneeringly arrogant. Many thousands of people liked and followed Joe's work with the Mescaleros, maybe some did out of loyalty to Joe but surely because they liked it as well. Since when did rebellion have to be turned into money, Graeme? Considering that Joe died a very wealthy man indeed I don't really understand what you're point is. Fair point about arseholes like Mcartny and Clapton (who I hate with a passion) though.
Visionary musicians like Joe are very few and far between and we should cherish them as the national treasures they are, not try and take their deaths as an opportunity to be oh so clever by pointing out that, even as inspirational as he was, Joe's life was flawed. Those of us with the requisite intellingence can work it out for ourselves, those who don't, don't matter. Try and come up with a better ephitaph.
Thank you for what you gave us Joe.
Cheers Andy
I remember many happy hours playing along and jumping around to the Clash (I Fought the Law Anyone?!). I think they are one of those bands that stay with you far longer than most bands around today. Forget about the Mescaleros and go and put London Calling on: it's fucking magic.
RIP Joe...
nah, its true, the mescalaros were shit. still a pitty tho when someone dies young(ish).
all i'm saying is it's a shame when someone who used to be so cool and make such good records then goes less cool and makes bad records. and then it's even worse when they die young anyway. but john's totally right, he made two of the best albums ever so respect is due.
i was gonna say that. but i thought you would.
Aw man, way to pick the nits
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Crazy John:
I remember many happy hours playing along and jumping around to the Clash (I Fought the Law Anyone?!).
RIP Joe...</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>
(The Bobby Fuller Four anyone?)
i knew someone was gonna say that.