Joe Strummer dead.
- Thread starter moose
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No - what happened? 
IAmEvilHomer
Bite my shiny metal ass!
no fucking way, what did happen? Surely he was too young.
Thats really gutting, I'd just started listening to the Clash again recently.
Thats really gutting, I'd just started listening to the Clash again recently.
editor
hiraethified
That is really, really terrible and a fucking massive loss.
Man, that's really pissed me off.
BBC report
Man, that's really pissed me off.
BBC report
moose
like some cat from Japan
subversplat
writer of wrongs
The world's lost a great guy.
Oddly enough I was listening to the Clash for the first time in a couple of months last night.
Sorry...jus doubled this in Music...jeeeez::::end of another era,,,, gutted::::they better have some class documentaries on;;;what ever 'they' say...the Man changed/touched a lot of lives!
Thoroughly bad bad bad bad news!
gutted::::they better have some class documentaries on;;;what ever 'they' say...the Man changed/touched a lot of lives!Thoroughly bad bad bad bad news!
Snorkelboy
A fish is not just 4 xmas
Fucking tragedy
Fuck.
Thats really pissed me of.
I have to say that man was one of my driving forces in my life.
Had it not been for that inspiring attitude, i might not have done half of things i have tried to do.
So as a deadication to the fine fellow, today at the cafe will be clash day etc.
Look out goths, skateboarders and mushe's.
Thats really pissed me of.
I have to say that man was one of my driving forces in my life.
Had it not been for that inspiring attitude, i might not have done half of things i have tried to do.
So as a deadication to the fine fellow, today at the cafe will be clash day etc.
Look out goths, skateboarders and mushe's.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Thanks for everything Joe - and i don't care what they say, Sandinista was a cracking album, and should've been longer. Time to crack open that xmas whiskey i think...
Miss Potter
hates mice
I've just seen the news on Yahoo. Such a shock.
This is not kosher
This is not kosher
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
There's a solitary man crying hold me,
and if its only because he's a lonely,
And if the keeper of time runs slowly,
He won't be alive for long.....
Sad sad news from my radio this morning, RIP fella,
and if its only because he's a lonely,
And if the keeper of time runs slowly,
He won't be alive for long.....
Sad sad news from my radio this morning, RIP fella,
Had it not been for that inspiring attitude, i might not have done half of things i have tried to do
as Oksi said, the Clash opened up a lot of people's eyes and inspired many, particularly working class alienated youth to reach for the skies, in their dreams and even in reality.
Rip Joe
even our generation is now starting to pass away....
as Oksi said, the Clash opened up a lot of people's eyes and inspired many, particularly working class alienated youth to reach for the skies, in their dreams and even in reality.
Rip Joe
even our generation is now starting to pass away....
kained&able
Here for the football.
Bit of a shocker that!!!!!
Not overly keen on the clash to be honest. But they influenced just about every band that i listen too. Thier legacyy will remain for a long long time.
The death of a legend.
dave
Not overly keen on the clash to be honest. But they influenced just about every band that i listen too. Thier legacyy will remain for a long long time.
The death of a legend.
dave
This really WAS a big shock
The news is a real downer for me given that I was in my late teens in the late seventies/early eighties, a period when IMO the Clash were among the best (if not THE best) and most creative bands in the world. Anyone who saw the Don Letts documentary from about two? years ago will have heard him talking eloquently about all the different musical and political influences they were eagerly drinking in at that time. And Joe came across as a man with every sort of honesty and integrity.
But I never saw him/them live at the time
We did see him and the Mescaleros headlining the Cambridge Folk Festival (of all places) this summer, and both the newer stuff and especially the classics went down very well with all, folkies included ... top gig!
As moose and many others have said ... one of the heroes of the era has gone. It's a terrible loss. Condolences to friends and family.
The news is a real downer for me given that I was in my late teens in the late seventies/early eighties, a period when IMO the Clash were among the best (if not THE best) and most creative bands in the world. Anyone who saw the Don Letts documentary from about two? years ago will have heard him talking eloquently about all the different musical and political influences they were eagerly drinking in at that time. And Joe came across as a man with every sort of honesty and integrity.
But I never saw him/them live at the time
We did see him and the Mescaleros headlining the Cambridge Folk Festival (of all places) this summer, and both the newer stuff and especially the classics went down very well with all, folkies included ... top gig!
As moose and many others have said ... one of the heroes of the era has gone. It's a terrible loss. Condolences to friends and family.
Paul Marsh
NeitherWashingtonNorMecca
I don't think there has been a better punk album than "The Clash" every track is a monster.
The link Moose put on earlier to Strummer's site is down due to the number of people trying to access the site - sign of what a giant he was.
The link Moose put on earlier to Strummer's site is down due to the number of people trying to access the site - sign of what a giant he was.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
Shit.
I'm gutted.
To me The Clash were everything a band should be - committed, passionate and inspirational.
Strummer was from an almost bygone era when a bands were almost expected to act as youth culture's agents against authority and the state - rather than as commidified non-entities whose pupose is to promote product.
Joe Strummer personified that attitude. You dont sell out, you dont get back together after 20 years for millionaires reunion tour.
(and yeah, there was the levi jeans thing, but I think that was Mick Jones idea and Strummer was against it)
Ah shit ...
14 years old, in front of the parents bedroom mirror, £25 electric guitar slung low round my neck, all acne and gawky limbs - spitting out the words and thrashing my hands on the strings -
"Well I wanner boggie down with the Clash City Rockers
I need a real jolt of electrical shocker"
Gutted, really gutted.
Thanks Joe.
(pulls out London Calling from the record rack - lump in the throat)
I'm gutted.
To me The Clash were everything a band should be - committed, passionate and inspirational.
Strummer was from an almost bygone era when a bands were almost expected to act as youth culture's agents against authority and the state - rather than as commidified non-entities whose pupose is to promote product.
Joe Strummer personified that attitude. You dont sell out, you dont get back together after 20 years for millionaires reunion tour.
(and yeah, there was the levi jeans thing, but I think that was Mick Jones idea and Strummer was against it)
Ah shit ...
14 years old, in front of the parents bedroom mirror, £25 electric guitar slung low round my neck, all acne and gawky limbs - spitting out the words and thrashing my hands on the strings -
"Well I wanner boggie down with the Clash City Rockers
I need a real jolt of electrical shocker"
Gutted, really gutted.
Thanks Joe.
(pulls out London Calling from the record rack - lump in the throat)
