Joe Strummer RIP

I haven't listened to the Clash in a while now. Turned on the radio yesterday morning while in the shower and, lo and behold, they were playing a Mescalaros tune. I just caught the end of it and would not have known who it was except for the DJ's comments about Joe, etc... Just hearing his name brought back a lot of old ( and good ) memories. Sorry to see him go, but i'd like to thank him for all the good times he helped me to have. Sean
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Sad .. end of a great great era and good part of my disfunctional youth which I loved !

Matt

The Clash were, for my money, the last great mythical rock'n'roll band. Strode the earth like gods it seemed to me, the way I thought the great bands used to, like Elvis, like Dylan. They saw to this themselves, engaging in self-mythologizing to a degree not seen since the heyday of the Beatles and Stones. But they backed it up just as well, with music that truly earned them their audacious (and self-annointed) moniker, "The Only Band That Matters". I only saw them once; drove 250 miles round-trip with a couple of good friends in an old beater at age 17, one of my most fondly remembered rock shows ever. I don't think Joe Strummer's singing was ever caught on record as powerfully as he came across live. A genuine original - we won't see his like again around these parts.

P.S. - VH1 promises two hours on Strummer and The Clash tonight at 10pm est.

This is tragic. "London Calling" is a classic. Of all the band out of the late seventies, they were one of the best.

Every time I wander around shopping for groceries I sing "I'm all lost in the supermarket". Yeah, I get a lot of strange looks, s'okay. Damned talented band who "disappointed the critics" by not being the next Beatles. Rest peacefully Joe, your memory will live on forever.