I’m probably being a miserable old man.
Alright I am a miserable old man
but back in the nineteen seventies’s The Clash were an amazing PUNK band.
Amazing as a live act, amazing for
their ‘in your face’ left wing politics of rebellion. It was a time to take a
stand.
In case you ever wondered why
their early albums are a bit tame – it’s because albums were an expensive
investment for us at the time. Singles were cheap and no one had any money.
So, THE
CLASH brought out much of their best stuff on
singles. Other bands would re issue their singles on their albums, forcing fans
to buy the same things twice. Not THE
CLASH.
It was all about ideals and
sticking it to the man not ripping people off.
Yesterday I was in a proper record
shop – not second hand, looking over the counter like a small boy at the new
Big Box Set that’s just come out – everything THE
CLASH ever did, all nicely remixed and repackaged
with a book, a DVD and a live performance, I’ll bet.
A hundred pounds!
Joe Strummer would not like it.
Janie Jones wouldn’t like it.
I don’t like it.
Oh no you think it’s funny,
Turning rebellion into money.
The White man in the Hammersmith
Palais.
By the way, three years of
recession stopped the wrecking ball for a while, but now the developers have
finally demolished the Hammersmith Palais.
PUNK WILL NEVER DIE?
Yeah, well this punk is feeling a
bit of a Blobfish at the moment.
Neil Harris
(a don’t stop till you drop
production)
Does anyone listen to ‘Janie
Jones’ and ‘Garage land’ any more ?– you cannot imagine what it was like when
that came out.
This may force me to do something
a bit naughty but its what Joe would have wanted me to do.
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