Perfect for Halloween; the tribute to the late Joe Strummer from the Grammys. Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, Elvis Costello, Pete Thomas, Steven Van Zandt, and Tony Kanal.
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This is tremendous! Ive never seen it, thanks for posting!
That was great! I hadn’t seen it either.
You know, I wouldn’t have pegged Bruce Springsteen for a Clash fan.
Glad you liked it. My musical friend Stephen showed it to me. I’m not a Bruce fan, but he did good here. They all did.
For a group of mostly older farts, they pulled it off very well.
I thought so. But isn’t Dave Grohl a drummer? I’m so easily confused.
Dave Grohl is a multi-instrumentalist, Drummer with Nirvana and occasionally Queens of the stone age and tenacious D, He fronts Foo Fighters on guitar and vocals. Oh…and he also plays the Devil. The dude, not the instrument.Seriously.
have you seen the strummer doco yet?
Thanks Kev, I didn’t know he played with tenacious d!!! They rule.
Nursemyra, I will look for it on YouTube once I’m not suffering Internettus Interruptus…it’s been out at my place for two days, will be out till Monday at least, I think! I’m in withdrawl.
I remember watching this live the night it was broadcasted on network TV. At the time, and even now I find it pretty bittersweet.
The fact being, Joe Strummer and Mick had planned to appear on stage that night in Cleveland probably with Topper drumming. However, Paul Simonon refused to reform The Clash even for the hall of fame induction.
I just completed the Strummer biography “Redemption Song” and quite sadly as recently as the day before he died Joe had sent Paul a fax suggesting he “reconsider playing in Cleveland, it might be fun.”
Seeing anyone other than Jones/Strummer perform this track is rather hollow for me but thanks for posting it.
Tim
http://undergrounddiscs.com
fuck yeah. thanks for this.
Glad you guys are enjoying it. Tim, thanks for that bittersweet story. I hadn’t heard it before.
To this day I ask myself – how is it that Strom Thurmond gets 100+ years on this mortal coil and Joe Strummer gets only 50?
When I was a college student in the 70’s I ran into Joe at Bleeker Bob’s in the Village. I walked in with a friend, and Joe was well into an argument with the manager, who was vainly trying to convince him that The Plasmatics were a worthy band. I was far too star struck to say anything, so I pretended to flip through LP’s, silently enjoying Joe’s rant about what music is really all about. Finally he gave up on the idiot manager, walked behind me on his way out, and as he passed he clapped me affectionately on the shoulder and said, “Don’t buy anything from this place – it’s a shithole!”
*sigh*
I miss Joe.
Highly cool story. Thanks for sharing it. Did you buy anything?
Nope! It was a crappy record store, despite it’s reputation.
Hi all,
Just seen this for the first time and the standing ovation at the end bought a teat to my eye. A fantastic tribute to an inspirational man.
RIP Joe
I’ve had a copy of this on my computer for ages. My first thought at the time was “wow, Springsteen is punk as fuck…who knew?”
Seriously! Last time I cared about Springsteen was easily ten years ago, when I heard he’d crossed a picket line to put on a show. That’s it, one strike and you’re out in my book. Especially if you bill yourself as some kind of “Blue Collar Balladeer.”