[QUOTE=Ska_Pirate]Is it just me, or is the quality of this thread going downhill the past hour?[/QUOTE]


yea it was..noobs who dont know the clash are commingin..but lets try to get it back on thread....btw..i nominated you as noob of the month :thumb:

I have London Calling Origional Pressing oh yaaaaaaaaaaaaa

this thread has been open for fuc'king weeks

All I have on vinyl is a couple ac/dc albums.... so no.



And does anybody have some random clash sites I can put in my bibliography? I need 10, and I only used about 3 sources.

[QUOTE=combatrock*bass]yea it was..noobs who dont know the clash are commingin..but lets try to get it back on thread....btw..i nominated you as noob of the month :thumb:[/QUOTE]

you can't he won last time

i thought andy (coma girl) won last time


to ska pirate..did you use this as one?

[QUOTE=combatrock*bass]yeap .so you may leave now


god job andy buy the way[/QUOTE]
why do you want him to leave?he can join us even if he likes the ramones!

[QUOTE=Ska_Pirate]All I have on vinyl is a couple ac/dc albums.... so no.



And does anybody have some random clash sites I can put in my bibliography? I need 10, and I only used about 3 sources.[/QUOTE]
i did a pretty good biography of the clash for a website i used to have, but its in french... :upset:

[QUOTE=combatrock*bass]i thought andy (coma girl) won last time


to ska pirate..did you use this as one?[/QUOTE]

I won in Jan.

And I could, but the link wouldn't work. Forums are blocked

[QUOTE=Coma_Girl]why do you want him to leave?he can join us even if he likes the ramones![/QUOTE]
hes just spamming it up..he hasnt said a usefull thing yet

[QUOTE=Ska_Pirate]I won in Jan.

And I could, but the link wouldn't work. Forums are blocked[/QUOTE]

just google im sure you will find places with clash websites

[url]http://www.angelfire.com/on/clash/[/url]

[url]http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/1028/[/url]

[url]http://launch.yahoo.com/ar-303672-bio--The-Clash[/url]

[url]http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-Clash-Biography/5E5BEC8B1CB23BF6482568AB002C9528[/url]


[url]http://www.mp3.com/the-clash/artists/3309/biography.html[/url]


[url]http://www.artistdirect.com/loserkids/store/artist/bio/0,,415394,00.html?artist=The+Clash[/url]

here you go...hope that helped

me and travis were talking about it just now...

were topper and joe friends again before joe's dead?
joe and mick were...cause the last show mick joined joe on stage.
joe and paul were cause joe called paul the day before he died.

and what about mick and paul, mick and topper, & paul and topper? :confused:

D'amn boy.


Thank you very much :thumb:

Purple passion rocket, you need to stop spamming this thread or leave.

And Dustin, you can toss this site in your bibliography if you want, even though you probably already know it.


[url]http://clashphotorockers.free.fr/sommaire.htm[/url]

Yeah, I got a bunch of induvidual pictures from there

[QUOTE=Coma_Girl]me and travis were talking about it just now...

were topper and joe friends again before joe's dead?
joe and mick were...cause the last show mick joined joe on stage.
joe and paul were cause joe called paul the day before he died.

and what about mick and paul, mick and topper, & paul and topper? :confused:[/QUOTE]

I know Paul and Mick were friends, they worked on alot of the Legacy London Calling together. I'm not sure about the others though :confused:.

ooh yea..for sure mick and paul are friends..i for got about london legacy thing..

[QUOTE=guns_of_brixton]

[url]http://clashphotorockers.free.fr/sommaire.htm[/url][/QUOTE]
i love this website.theres an awesome picture of Joe wearing the PASSION IS A FASHION jacket.And there's the picture of joe with the 101ers and he looks really really weird.and awesome band pictures

I don't know much about Topper. Pretty much just what I've heard in this thread and:

[QUOTE=AllMusic]Drummer Topper Headon wasn't an original member of the Clash, but it was his arrival that helped push the group to the next musical level, as he quickly became an integral part of the group. Born Nicholas Bowen Headon on May 30, 1955 in Bromely, Kent, Headon grew up a soul and jazz fan (an early influence was ace fusion drummer Billy Cobham), as he was once a member of a local group that opened a show for the Temptations. It was through an acquaintance, guitarist Mick Jones, that Topper got the heads up about a try out with the Clash in 1977 - after the group had gone through an extraordinary amount of drummers during their short timespan together. With the group already enjoying a substantial following and signed to Epic Records, Headon agreed to join up with the group. But Headon's original plan was to stay with the Clash for only a year - which he figured would give enough time to get his name known, so he could move on to another more 'suitable' group. But Headon quickly realized that the group was not just a one-dimensional punk band, as they branched out and touched upon a wide variety of styles - all the while never losing sight of their original punk ideals. Headon appeared on such Clash albums as 1978's Give 'Em Enough Rope (on which producer Sandy Pearlman dubbed Headon 'The Human Drum Machine,' due to his impeccable timing and skills), 1979's classic double album London Calling, 1980's sprawling triple album set Sandinista! (which featured one of Headon's few lead vocals with the Clash, "Ivan Meets G.I. Joe"), and 1982's Combat Rock, the latter of which contained the Clash's biggest hit single, "Rock the Casbah," which was almost entirely penned and played by Headon.

But despite the Clash becoming one of the world's top rock outfits, a heroin addiction had drawn a wedge between Headon and the rest of his bandmates - leading to Headon being told to either 'shape up or ship out.' Unfortunately, Headon couldn't keep up his end of the bargain, which led to his dismissal from the Clash in 1982. After a planned reunion with Jones (who was expelled from the Clash himself a year after Headon's dismissal) in the group Big Audio Dynamite failed to work out, Headon focused on recording a solo album. Issued in 1986, Headon's Waking Up turned out to be an album that featured primarily soul, jazz, and R&B compositions, as well as several tracks that dealt with Headon's vices ("Got to Keep on Going," "Just Another Hit," etc.). The album failed to gain the attention of the Clash's following, as Headon was sent to jail a year later for drug-related offenses. In addition to recording with the Clash, Headon helped produce the obscure New York City new wave outfit the Bush Tetras in the early '80s (the releases Better Late Than Never, Boom in the Night, and Tetrafied), as well as playing drums on the Mick Jones-produced 1981 solo release by ex-Mott the Hoople leader Ian Hunter, Short Back and Sides. Although little has been heard or seen of Headon since his Clash days, he was extensively interviewed along with his other former bandmates for the superb Clash bio-movie, Westway to the World, in the late '90s. ~ Greg Prato [/QUOTE]

i know he puked on buddy holly's grave :p and he sold his drum on ebay 2 moths ago.

Somebody told me that Topper wrote the bassline for Rock the Casbah. Does anybody know if this is true? Also, did the Clash ever play Rock the Casbah live? By that time Topper was gone, so somebody else would need to play the piano part, because we all know Terry Chimes sucks.

topper wrote rock the casbah, but not the lyrics.

in the video of rock the casbah, its the gay lamborghini guy playing drums, and thats why we dont see him much...it was toppers song.it sucks that the gay lamborghini guy was on the video and not topper.IT WAS HIS SONG!

topper wrote the whole song

[QUOTE=Coma_Girl]topper wrote rock the casbah, but not the lyrics.

in the video of rock the casbah, its the gay lamborghini guy playing drums, and thats why we dont see him much...it was topper song's.it sucks that the gay lamborghini guy was on the video and not topper.IT WAS HIS SONG![/QUOTE]

are you sure topper didn right the lyrics?

sure.maybe he helped joe a bit, but I'm pretty sure ive read somewhere that Joe wrote the lines now the king told the boogie man, you gotta let that ragga drop..because Rhodes didnt like the music.

and listen to it.it's joe's writing style.

I thought he wrote the whole thing too

maybe.you cant really trust me on that anyway.i say: let's search who wrote the lyrics and the first who find the answer will be the Joe Strummer's thread king!

[QUOTE=combatrock*bass]topper wrote the whole song[/QUOTE]

Cool, I wasn't sure. I'm glad they only showed about 20 seconds of the Lamborghini Guy in Westway.

And what was the name of that one guy that was originally another guitarist in the Clash? I think it was Vince. You know, the guy that Paul said took his rehersal spot.

Rehearsal Rehearsals :lol:!

keith levine...or something like that

Yeah, Keith Levine.

I can't stop laughing about rehearsal rehearsals :lol:.

that would be cool to go to rehersal rehersals..what part of london is it at

:(


/doesn't get it

[QUOTE]Joe Strummer wrote the lyrics about an Arab ruler (the Shereef) who hates music, but is defied by the citizens and even his own air force. Strummer was inspired by a news report of Iranians who were flogged for owning Disco albums. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England)
Clash Drummer Topper Headon wrote the music. Headon left the group shortly after this was released because of his heroin addiction. He was replaced by Tory Crimes, who was the original drummer for The Clash.
This was The Clash's biggest United States hit and along with "Train In Vain," one of only 2 that reached the Top 40. They had several Top 40 hits in England.
In the UK this single was backed by "Long Time Jerk." That song cannot be found anywhere else. [/QUOTE]

Here it is, folks.

maybe cause y english is lame, but i dont get what is so funny about rehearsal rehersals.but i know mick think it sounds liek a jewish thing

[QUOTE=combatrock*bass]that would be cool to go to rehersal rehersals..what part of london is it at[/QUOTE]

I'm not sure, but I'd love to go.

And to Dustin, its where the Clash rehearsed in their early days. Mick thought it was a Jewish thing, and he was talking about it in Westway.

[QUOTE=guns_of_brixton]Here it is, folks.[/QUOTE]
sean!you're the king!

i told you it was joe writing style..suckers :p

[QUOTE=Coma_Girl]maybe cause y english is lame, but i dont get what is so funny about rehearsal rehersals.but i know mick think it sounds liek a jewish thing[/QUOTE]

Its just kind of funny to me since I'm a Jew :amaze:.

mick is jewish...?

if were talkign about religon..was anyone in the clash chrisitan..athesit..what were there belifs?

i didnt know mick was a jew...are you sure?

edit: i dont why i said 'was' cause he's not dead...yet.