Joe Strummer & a Clash bootleg

JOE STRUMMER died three years ago. I remember perfetly how odd it seemed to me. And how it all looked like shit those days: the new year was just about to come but I already new it would suck after this.

So, it's still hard to talk about him: his music entered my life in a way many more other artists' music didn't. It made me feel fine. It made me angry and energized and happy to be alive.

I remember that when one of my teachers asked me who my favourite guitarist is (back when I was...15, or 16, I think), I yelled: "Joe Strummer!" without any doubt. Okay, okay, Joe won't be rememberd for his skills as guitarist, I now am very well aware of that, but you don't give a damn about it when you're a teenager. Or, at least, I didn't. Yeah, that way, it was all much esier, much more black-or-white, therefore I was pretty glad to have something like THE CLASH's songs to hold on to, and I couldn't care less if Strummer could not go beyond his "strumming" skills. It was all about impact. And he had a lot of that.

So here is my tribute to his memory, one of the best bootlegs of The Clash I've ever heard, live in Jamaica in 1982:

1-Intro

2-London Caling

3-Police on my back

4-Guns of Brixton

5-Magnificent seven

6-Armagideon time

7-Magnificent seven (reprise)

8-Junco Partner

9-Spanish bombs

10-One more time

11-Train in vain

12-Bankrobber

13-This is radio clash

14-Clampdown

15-Should I stay or should I go

16-Rock the casbah

17-Straight to hell

http://rapidshare.de/files/9621850/The_Clash_From_London_to_Jamaica.zip.html

And if you want to know more about Strummer here is the link about him on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Strummer