I rarely taped whole albums, since the whole reason I bought a tape deck was to make mix tapes. But I did have a big stock of short songs and snippets to take the outro down to the last couple seconds.
Hec is me on the taping front. Even down to having 30 second songs to fill up the last few moments (God bless the Minutemen, and D. Boon).
London Calling and Sandanista were my introductions to the Clash (and, I think, punk rock) via my brother (who also introduced me to Kate Bush, Ken Russell, Oh Lucky Man and a myriad of other off-the-wall cultural touchstones - we've been paying each other back in kind ever since). I think London Calling is by far the better record (duh), but Sandanista, despite the self-induldgent sprawl, is just STELLAR. Even the self-indulgent crap is fun, IMNHO.
despite the self-induldgent sprawl
I have an image of ginormous spliffs by the pallette during the recording of
Sandinista.
I am interviewing Sloan tomorrow, then probably seeing them open for Jet at the Fillmore. Oooh la la!
I have an image of ginormous spliffs by the pallette during the recording of Sandinista.
There was that, and also, after London Calling came out, Springsteen released The River, so Joe Strummer said (or at least least he said it in an interview) "Fuck him, we're gonna do a 3 record set".
There was a Joe Strummer memorial held in Boston shortly after he died at a bar in called J. J. Foley's (apparently a favorite hangout of Mr. Strummer when he was in town). A girl who'd been at his funeral was there and told us that "White Man in Hammersmith Palais" was played as they lowered the coffin, and Joe's daughter slapped a "This End Up" bumper sticker on it.
They got Burton suits, ha you think it's funny
Turning rebellion into money
I am interviewing Sloan tomorrow, then probably seeing them open for Jet at the Fillmore. Oooh la la!
Jet's playing in SF? Nice.
What are you interviewing Sloan for?
What are you interviewing Sloan for?
For Scram. And I'm bringing my Sloan expert, Elizabeth, with me. (She wrote about
One Chord
for the book.)
Elizabeth who was at the wedding and has the same camera as me?
Elizabeth who was at the wedding and has the same camera as me?
Nope, I think that was Cathy the cool puppeteer.
