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ghosttown Faith member Make believe in magic/ Make believe in dreams/ Make believe impossible/ Nothing as it seems Posts: 177	The Clash, Strummer & related Jan 10, 2018 20:20:52 GMT 1 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ghosttown on Jan 10, 2018 20:20:52 GMT 1 The guy deserves definitely an own thread. Unique voice, fantastic performer. Both The Clash and Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros are great bands.

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The Clash, Strummer & related Jan 10, 2018 20:24:26 GMT 1 Pipperoo likes this

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Jan 10, 2018 20:20:52 GMT 1 ghosttown said:

The guy deserves definitely an own thread.

Unique voice, fantastic performer.

Both The Clash and Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros are great bands.

No. It's going in the The Clash thread we have.

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Compared to The Clash they were pretty average really.
No getting away from the fact Strummer was a great, but The Mescaleros were really quite poor even by his standards.
In any case, there is a The Clash, Strummer & related thread, so no real need for a new one

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Jan 10, 2018 20:31:38 GMT 1 steve said:

Compared to The Clash they were pretty average really.
No getting away from the fact Strummer was a great, but The Mescaleros were really quite poor even by his standards.

What on earth has you think that, though? I enjoy watching videos of live performances by Joe & The Mescaleros a lot more than I enjoy watching live videos of The Clash. They are BOTH great bands - too different too compare though, wherefore as I am utterly convinced there will be people who do not like The Clash but like the Mescaleros!
But seriously. Aside from the fact that we are on a fansite for The Cure, why does Simon have an own thread but the lead singer of another band doesn´t ??? I think that by narrowing it down to ´The Clash, Strummer & related´ we value Joe Strummer only in the context of one of his bands, do you know what I mean?
After all, he´s had more bands, he did solo stuff, he was an actor...

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Jan 12, 2018 4:13:31 GMT 1 Pipperoo said:

Who are the mescaleros?

one of the bands joe strummer formed after the clash broke up

they did folk music, though (I think--i´m no good describing and putting music in genre boxes)

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I watched Mysterry Train lately... and found it to be truly amazing. The interpersonal connections and relationships in this movie... so fascinating
for those of you who don´t know, Joe Strummer played Johnny "Elvis" there, and he did that fairly naturally

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Jan 15, 2018 19:35:55 GMT 1 ghosttown said:

Jan 10, 2018 20:31:38 GMT 1 steve said:

Compared to The Clash they were pretty average really.
No getting away from the fact Strummer was a great, but The Mescaleros were really quite poor even by his standards.

What on earth has you think that, though? I enjoy watching videos of live performances by Joe & The Mescaleros a lot more than I enjoy watching live videos of The Clash. They are BOTH great bands - too different too compare though, wherefore as I am utterly convinced there will be people who do not like The Clash but like the Mescaleros!

If you like them, then that's cool. I found them to be pretty dull to be honest. But each to their own eh?

Jan 15, 2018 19:35:55 GMT 1 ghosttown said:

But seriously. Aside from the fact that we are on a fansite for The Cure, why does Simon have an own thread but the lead singer of another band doesn´t ??? I think that by narrowing it down to ´The Clash, Strummer & related´ we value Joe Strummer only in the context of one of his bands, do you know what I mean?
After all, he´s had more bands, he did solo stuff, he was an actor...

There is a Simon thread because Simon is a member of The Cure, Whether he's been involved in other projects, it's still Simon relevant.
There's also a Pete Murphy/ Bauhaus etc thread & that works perfectly well I think. So split Joe from The Clash is basically going to result in a thread where The Clash will inevitably be the main subject as his acting was not exactly oscar worthy & his other bands were nothing compared to The Clash which was one of the best bands that ever existed (IMHO).

Except for Cut The Crap which was utter rubbish

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ghosttown Faith member Make believe in magic/ Make believe in dreams/ Make believe impossible/ Nothing as it seems Posts: 177	The Clash, Strummer & related Jan 15, 2018 20:26:08 GMT 1 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ghosttown on Jan 15, 2018 20:26:08 GMT 1 I just read Joe Strummer was a vegetarian!

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Post by elfink on Jan 25, 2018 17:01:15 GMT 1

mescaleeeeeeeeroh-ohs...they were just great. Me, I preferred 'em to the Clash but that's just cos of me liking the room re arranging each year. I don't want to hear London Calling for the 900th time when I can hear Yalla Yalla for the 50th. I'm sure if Mescaleros came first I'd prefer that experimental stuff on Sandinista or the clumsy beatbox of Cut the Crap...anyway

ghosttown Faith member Make believe in magic/ Make believe in dreams/ Make believe impossible/ Nothing as it seems Posts: 177	The Clash, Strummer & related Jan 31, 2018 18:30:27 GMT 1 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ghosttown on Jan 31, 2018 18:30:27 GMT 1 My favorite Clash songs are (currently) Death or Glory and This is England. Why on earth are you not supposed to like Cut The Crap???

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