{"id":1599,"date":"2008-08-01T14:54:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T18:54:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T16:24:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T16:24:10","slug":"the-nice-thing-to-do-would-be-to-wait-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-nice-thing-to-do-would-be-to-wait-un\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nice Thing to Do Would be to Wait Until Moddie Is Back From Vacation to Post This"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Clash fans of the world, rejoice! In addition to Wolfgang’s Vault featuring an entire Clash show from 1979<\/a> this week, there’s also this<\/a> to savor:
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\nThis 2-part interview presents polar extremes of Joe Strummer. The first part most likely takes place in late 1983, after Mick Jones left the band but before the new Clash line-up started touring together. The majority of this segment involves Strummer heatedly discussing all the reasons Jones was fired. He then goes on to talk animatedly about the new incarnation of the band and how everyone in America is on drugs.<\/p>\n

In the second part of the interview, recorded in the beginning of 1984, Strummer sounds melancholy and exhausted. However, with the departure of Mick Jones from The Clash being old news by this point, Lisa Robinson is able to steer the questioning towards what Strummer makes of performing, success, and his music.<\/p>\n

Part 1
\n00:00 \u2013 Why Mick was fired: emotional blackmail
\n01:15 \u2013 Bitterness
\n01:56 \u2013 Success vs. personal problems
\n02:48 \u2013 Mick’s vision for the band \/ guitar synth
\n03:59 \u2013 Who\/what constitutes The Clash
\n06:10 \u2013 Making a not-so-great Clash album: Combat Rock
\n07:05 \u2013 Glyn Johns saves Combat Rock (as per Joe Strummer)
\n07:55 \u2013 Glyn Johns ruins Combat Rock (as per Mick Jones)
\n08:35 \u2013 Forcing Mick Jones to sing “Should I Stay or Should I Go?”
\n10:22 \u2013 An honorable way for a band to go out
\n11:00 \u2013 The two new guitarists (Vince White, Nick Sheppard)
\n11:39 \u2013 Hoping to be possessed
\n12:40 \u2013 A divorced writing partnership with Mick \/ “Death is a Star”
\n14:02 \u2013 Writing with Paul Simonon \/ road-testing new songs
\n14:55 \u2013 Pete Howard on drums
\n15:07 \u2013 Recording a new album
\n15:49 \u2013 The US Festival
\n16:46 \u2013 Everybody in America is on drugs
\n18:29 \u2013 [phone]: Mick Jones’ response
\nPart 2
\n00:00 \u2013 Other aspirations \/ graphic artist
\n00:51 \u2013 Growing up with a diplomat father
\n01:57 \u2013 A feeling of homelessness
\n02:29 \u2013 Slagged for being middle-class
\n02:59 \u2013 The reaction in Britain to the disbanding of The Clash
\n03:45 \u2013 Taking some criticisms to heart
\n04:25 \u2013 Not enjoying playing in stadiums
\n05:45 \u2013 Crowd behavior \/ whose fault
\n07:13 \u2013 The ideal performing situation
\n07:49 \u2013 Pros and cons for The Clash getting bigger
\n08:30 \u2013 Avoiding the problems of The Who
\n09:09 \u2013 The commercial success of Combat Rock
\n10:48 \u2013 [A false start]
\n11:07 \u2013 Joe’s opinion of The Clash’s music
\n12:11 \u2013 Musical influences
\n12:45 \u2013 The blues boom of the \u201860’s in Britain
\n15:05 \u2013 Re-selling R&B to the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clash fans of the world, rejoice! In addition to Wolfgang’s Vault featuring an entire Clash show from 1979 this week, there’s also this to savor:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}