If you’ve yet to participate in one of Rock Town Hall’s patented All-Star Jam, maybe now’s the time!
This is the free-form thread that occasionally appears on The Main Stage, in which Townspeople can share quick thoughts, links, and whatnot regarding not-quite burning issues of possibly fantastic interest to rock nerds like ourselves. For instance, you may want to hip us to as current-day photos of the Leeds University refectory where The Who once rocked their live Tommy jam, giving purpose to at least one teenage guitarist’s life.
You may want to hip us to a pretty funny comedy routine on old rockers and their age-appropriately revised hits.
You may even want to share the news that J-Lo, Steven Tyler, and former producer/present label head and Jimmy Caan-look-alike Jimmy Iovine have been added as judges to American Idol.
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So how ’bout we get it on?
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I was recently on some random Clash board, and this dude on there claimed that he had “insider” knowledge that Mick Jones played all of the guitar parts on all of their studio albums (excluding “Cut the Crap” I would assume), and that Strummer never played a lick.
Obviously, I have my doubts about the veracity of this guy’s claim — he pulled the ol’ can’t reveal my sources thing. So, can someone here please validate or refute this claim for me?????
Thanx!
I’ve heard that Jones plays a lot (if not all?) of the guitars. I can imagine Strummer playing some of his own parts on the first album, but if you think about his live playing, it doesn’t sound like he laid down a single guitar part on Give ’em Enough Rope. After that, their guitars have so many effects it’s also easy to think that Jones is playing all the part. I’ve also heard that the bassist from The Blockheads played a lot of the bass parts from London Calling on. Who knows? However, I’m pretty sure Bernard Purdie did NOT play drums on any Clash records.