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Joe Strummer dead.

Joe Strummer

Man of the people, good comrade, and loyal soldier of the revolution.

We shall not look upon his like again.

Or shall we?

Everything he did, everything he recorded, he did to inspire other people to carry on groping towards that better world that is still possible, no matter what they tell us to the contrary.

And his legacy is still out there, still with us - look at the quotes on this thread, for example.

Punk rock - anyone can do it.

Building that better world - anyone can do it.

Victory to the masses and glory to the martyrs, as they say in Eritrea.
 
mick

shout out to mick jones - who must be feeling shit. Joe gave the rhythm and conviction. mick jones, melody, harmony and pop sensibility - it was this lennon and mcartneyish combination that made the clash...
 
Edit:

Rory's rather inflamatory post incited me to make a quite spirited defence but having given it some thought, I'd like to backtrack and apologise to anyone who thought my remarks were crass or thoughtless at this time.

Of course Joe Strummer's death is not preferable to any other outcome and it was extremely tactless of me to suggest that it was. There is a time and a place for everything and this is neither.
 
I apologise to white rabbit cos I know you didn't mean it like it sounded and I committed the cardinal sin of reacting like a great big floppy pink and far too tight blouse with silly buttons and with the aroma of rank or foul even body spray.
I am currently spanking myself to death.
It's tough but I deserve it..;) :p :cool:
Sorry.
 
We played Straight To Hell as a tribute on Monday night and there were a fair few people who were quite moved (possibly because I forgot half the words, sadly) but he was dead popular here.
 
what with the last few weeks being full of drinking , working and eating so much , I totally forgot about Joe passing away. It was only last night when I saw the new Bond film , within which there is a scene where "London's Calling" is used that it hit home.

RIP
 
Apologies for coming to this thread late but this is the only time i've cried when i've heard someone died. I am too young to have seen the Clash live but i am so glad i took my dad to see the great man with the Mescelaroes last year.

RIP Joe you will always live on in our hearts
 
Thank you for the word "gutted." It describes exactly how I've felt since the morning of Decemebr 23.

Woke up to "Rebel Waltz" on the local college station. "Mmmm, Sandanista," I mumbled into the pillow, smacked the snooze button and dozed off.

"Somebody Got Murdered" woke me the second time. "Hang on, the entire album?" I thought. "Must be the DJ didn't show up."

Then I got to work and found out I was wrong. And I was gutted.

Anyway, I found this link and am compelled to share. Interesting quote on Joe's formative years by the radio.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/highlights/001013_strummer.shtml

Cheers, all - d.
 
There is one thing I a can say and that is ..........



.................... JOE :D



Well so long liberty let's pretend you did'nt show
Not in my time but in our sons and daughters time
When you've got the feeling
And you youv'e gotta grove
mean time
There cutting their hands at the ke-bab shop
In the streets of fear
Forgetting all their best tae-kwon-do moves
on a barrel of beer


( sorry I forget the rest )
 
sounds like the lyrics to "Dakar Meantime" - the latest Mascaleros song. This was the one J dedicated to my friend Matty Blag. Yeh Matt is :0) now he has finally met his hero X to them and x to B
 
worth another bump...

I saw the Pogues at Brixton Academy many moons ago (must have been cos my brother was still alive). Shane was so pissed he was unintelligible but Joe saved the show. What a man.

this thread warms my heart with everyone's memories but it also makes me feel old. Was I really ever 17 and getting into concerts for free?!

Irish xxx
 
old fart at play

1st January 1977 - one of the first nights of the Roxy club; in some basement just off Cov Garden tube. Tiny sweaty basement full of faces from the "emerging punk scene." Don Letts on the decks - so you always got the contrast between dub heavy roots and the 3 chord thrash when it started up ( Nice!!! and a bit of New York Dolls thrown in )

When the Clash came on - as they always did in those days - you were amazed that this was a band with literally 3 frontman, not just Joe, Paul and Mick would go up the mike with him - all the time doing harmonies.

They used to wear these Maoist boilersuits with Jackson Pollock paint flecks - v.art skool - all over them; Joe had stencilled "Guitar Nero" over his and "Passion is a Fashion;" cos all the bands then were copying the blue veined political angst the Clash had virtually copywrit.

They were great that night; all those fucking nights 25 years ago were unbelievable - you really had to see the sad hairy beared indulgent flare wearing Allman Brothers and Steely Dan copyists that sat on the then still thriving pub scene to understand what a revolution the Clash constituted.

They wrote songs that need footnotes now: Carreer Opportunities comes from Hugie Greens ( Paula Yeats dad ) show Opportunity Knocks: Janie Jones was an old boring sex scandal; the payola refered to was a Radio 1 scandal. Remote Control was about the aborted Sex Pistols tour; Im so bored with the UsA was changed from Im so Bored with you - when the group chucked out the drummer for a more political direction. Deny is about his smack habit, blah blah...

The great thing is these songs stand alone anyway. At the time they were like the boiler suits. Wall posters with the News on it; like in maos china. They were meant as disposable blasts, fizzles, off the cuff farts about what was bugging them. But funnily enough still sound as fresh to me as then, 25 years ago.

Fucking great, eh?
 
I just got back in the country after 5 days with no news to find this.
I'm holding back the tears now - the man was hero :( :( :( and too young too die.
 
Joe


There will never ever be anyone like you again.

You will never be forgotten.

Still emotional.

Maggot
 
It's just really bad news. I was a latecomer to The Clash but they made a massive impact on all the bands I liked as a kid and loads of the bands I listen to now. Goodbye Joe.
 
sad sad sad sad loss.. jo was not only an insparation for me he become a friend and comrade and he shall be missed verry much..

mozaz
 
Me and my missus were driving in Kent when we heard and for me it will be the equivilent of another generation remembering where they were when Kennedy died. Of all the early punk bands the Clash were the best.

Very sad news. R.i.p. Joe thanks for some of the best tunes ever.
STAY FREE.

We played 'London calling' all day xmas day.
 
Not been around the boards for ages, so haven't had a chance to add my respects for Joe.

For most people my age the Clash and Joe were a huge presence in our formative years. It's all been said, but I'll concur that the music and the politics were far more influential than the art school rage of the Pistols, and Joe's latest work showed he still had much to offer. A great man, and a sad loss.

So much more relevant than the death of an old parasite earlier in the year. What colour was the newsreader's tie when Joe's death was announced?
 
Originally posted by danny la rouge


So much more relevant than the death of an old parasite earlier in the year. What colour was the newsreader's tie when Joe's death was announced?
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Which old parasite? :eek:

*becomes suspicious*
 
some thoughts ...

not my generation of music, but the clash are one of my favourite bands regardless. My mum was born on the same day as Joe Strummer (21/08/1952 btw). not that that's particularly relevant.

white man in hammersmith palais - one of my favourite songs. I remember a teacher at school telling me how seeing the clash had been the best gig of his life.
 
Originally posted by walktome


Which old parasite? :eek:
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Elizabeth Bowes Lyons. Often refered to as "The Queen Mother". We were subjected to endless enforced public mourning when she finally died. I merely think Joe Strummer's premature death is far more tragic and far more relevant to people like me.

Joe Strummer. Not missing this time, but gone for ever. :(
 
For once on these boards.............

I can't think of anything to say!

Like many of my generation I was/am a massive Clash fan. Saw them 17 times. In 1980 we couldn't wait to see the Clash at the Lyceum so we all piled onto the Magic Bus (who remembers that!) and went to see them in Paris. We had no money and didn't even know where they were playing. We just knew they were playing seven nights in a condemned theatre.

We survived by stealing knick-nacks from the tourist shops in Montmartre/Pigalle and selling them to tourists. We raised enough money to get us all tickets to the first night at the Theatre Mogador. That night we ended up in a fight with a bunch of French "nazi" punks as the show finished. To cut a long story short, we ended up in the Clash's dressing room and they stuck us on the guest list for the rest of the week. Joe even told us the best places to doss in Paris.

Years later when I was working with Joe, he remembered that night clearly.

He was a fucking lovely bloke and I for one am not afraid to say I shed more than a few tears when I heard of his passing.

Wherever you are Joe, you will never be forgotten.

John x
 
Originally posted by danny la rouge
Elizabeth Bowes Lyons. Often refered to as "The Queen Mother". We were subjected to endless enforced public mourning when she finally died. I merely think Joe Strummer's premature death is far more tragic and far more relevant to people like me.

Joe Strummer. Not missing this time, but gone for ever. :(
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LOL jeez. I was scared for a minute that you meant someone else, since this is a dead punk thread. Go ahead an insult your queen mother. Oh wait, that's an awful thing to say. :confused:
 
Originally posted by danny la rouge
I don't have a Queen. (There is a deluded woman living in several palaces who claims I am her "subject", but it's best just to ignore her).
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What if one day you come to respect one of those deluded women, then would you have a Queen?
 
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Originally posted by danny la rouge
I don't have a Queen. (There is a deluded woman living in several palaces who claims I am her "subject", but it's best just to ignore her).
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:D :D
 
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