Sleep with Rock Stars: The Clash, The Only Band That Matters, Part 2
Summary
This episode digs into the legacy of The Clash, the band that took punk, lit it on fire, and threw it at the establishment. We’ll look at how they didn’t just play loud, they said something. Their lyrics punched back at injustice, their shows doubled as protest rallies, and they made activism sound like a killer hook. We get into the major moments. The highs. The feuds. The weird collaborations. And, yeah, the loss of Joe Strummer, a gut punch that marked the end of an era, but not the end of their influence. Musically, The Clash didn’t stay in their punk lane. They grabbed reggae, ska, and rockabilly, stirred it all together, and somehow made it work. Their sound was a rebellion you could dance to. So hit play, settle in, and let the story unfold. This is punk history as a bedtime story. Just with more distortion and a lot more heart.
Show Notes
- This episode time-travels back to when punk wasn’t a fashion statement, it was a full-blown cultural uprising
- We dig into The Clash, the band that didn’t just play loud music, they made it mean something
- Formed in the chaos of late-70s Britain, The Clash hit the scene like a Molotov cocktail, angry, stylish, and politically charged
- They weren’t just a band, they were a middle finger to the establishment that somehow got played on the radio
- From London Calling to Sandinista!, they stretched punk’s boundaries by mixing in reggae, rockabilly, dub, and whatever else they felt like stealing from the record shop that week
- Their lyrics read like protest chants, calling out racism, classism, imperialism, and whatever other -isms needed a lyrical smackdown
- We cover the highs, the chaos, the Hall of Fame nod, and the legacy that still influences everyone from indie punks to arena rockers
- If you came for a quiet history lesson, sorry, this is punk storytelling with heart, noise, and just enough grit to keep you awake
- Or not. Feel free to fall asleep to the revolution.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Sleep With Rockstars
01:27 Transitioning to Rest and Reflection
06:38 The Clash's Legacy and Reunion Talks
15:36 The Clash's Political Legacy
19:44 The Clash's Enduring Influence
21:48 The Clash's Cultural Impact
Takeaways
- This podcast is your unofficial permission slip to stop doomscrolling and get some actual sleep
- Replays are encouraged, think of it as Pavlov, but with punk rock and fewer drooling dogs
- The Clash didn’t just play punk, they politicized it, guitars became soapboxes, and every track came with a message
- Their legacy still echoes through modern music, even if half the bands they inspired have no idea where Brixton is
- Reminder: this podcast exists to help you relax, not to crank your adrenaline, rebellion can wait till morning
- We walk through the band’s major moments, from the chaos to the comebacks, and the loss of Joe Strummer, which hit like a power chord to the chest
Links
- Source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_Clash
- You may also enjoy The Clash, Part 1
- Join the Fan Club for exclusive benefits for as little as $3
Mentioned in this Episode
- Big Audio Dynamite
- Havana at 3am
- B.A.D.
- Gorillaz
- Rolling Stone
- CBS
- Public Enemy
- Rancid
- Anti Flag
- Bad Religion
- Green Day
- Rise Against
- Manic Street Preachers
- The Offspring
- Jimmy Cliff
- Dropkick Murphy's
- Bruce Springsteen
- E Street Band
- Ben Folds
- Cafe Tacuba
- Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
- Mono Negra
- Danny Saber
- The Clash
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Transcript
Tonight on Sleep With Rockstars, we will sleep with the Clash welcome to Sleep With Rockstars, the Gen X Sleep Podcast. Because you deserve a good night's sleep or whatever. I'm Sloan Spencer.
In each Sleep With Rockstars sleep podcast, I will read from Wikipedia about your favorite Gen X musicians and bands. If this podcast helps you relax and fall asleep, please leave a five star rating and a kind review in your favorite podcast app.
You may find that the more you listen, the more your mind will begin to associate these stories with sleep. So feel free to return to each episode again and again. Repetition can help create a signal to your brain that it's time to rest.
And if the musical act isn't your favorite, that's perfectly okay. You don't need to pay close attention. Instead, let the words flow over you. Let their rhythm and softness lull you, not for interest, but for sleep.
You are not here to be entertained, you're here to let go. Now let your breath guide you deeper into stillness. Take a moment to settle in. Gently close your eyes and let your body begin to rest.
There's nowhere you need to be, nothing.
You need to do. This is your time. A time to let go of the day.
Unwind and allow your mind to slow down.
With each breath in, invite, calm. With each breath out, release the tension.
As your body begins to soften into the surface beneath you, imagine a gentle wave of warmth from the crown of your head to the tips of your toes, carrying away the weight of the day.
Collaborations, Reunions and Strummer's death, 1986 through present after his dismissal, Jones formed Big Audio Dynamite, who released their debut album this is Big Audio Dynamite late in 1985. Jones and Strummer worked together on their respective 1986 projects.
Jones helped with the two songs, Strummer wrote and performed for the soundtrack to the film sid and Nancy 1986 and Strummer Co wrote a number of the tracks for the second Bad album number 10 Upping street, which he also co produced with Jones. Committed to Bad, Strummer moved on to solo projects and screen acting.
Simone formed a band called Havana at 3am Headen recorded a solo album, Waking up, but was imprisoned in 1987 for drug related offenses.
In 1988 the compilation album the Story of the Clash Volume 1 was released and the single I Fought the Law was reissued and reached number 29 in the UK Singles Chart on 2 March 1991.
A reissue of Should I Stay or Should I Go gave the Clash their first and only number One UK single that same year, Rock the Kasbah, featured on a broadcast of Armed Forces Radio during the Gulf War in 1999, Strummer, Jones and Simon cooperated in compiling the live album From Here to Eternity and the video documentary West Way to the world. On 7th November 2002, the Rock and Roll hall of Fame announced the Clash would be inducted the following March.
On 15 November, Jones and Strummer shared the stage performing three Clash songs during a London Ball benefit show by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros. Strummer, Jones and Headen wanted to play a reunion show to coincide with their induction into the hall of Fame.
Simonon did not want to participate because he believed playing at the high priced event would not have been in the spirit of the clash. On 22nd December 2002, Strummer died from a congenital heart defect, ending any possibility of a full reunion.
In March 2003, Strummer, Jones, Simonon, Chimes and Edden were inducted into the hall of fame.
In early 2008, carbon silicon, a new band founded by Mick Jones and his former London SS bandmate Tony James, entered into a six week residency at London's Inn on the Green. On opening night, 11 January Headen joined the band for the Clash's song Train in Vain.
An encore followed with Headen playing drums on Should I Stay or Should I Go? This was the first time since 1982 that Headen and Jones had performed together on stage.
In September 2009, Jones and Hinton reunited to re record the 1970s Clash B side Jail Guitar Doors with Billy Bragg, who founded an eponymous charity that gives musical instruments and lessons to prison inmates.
Simonon and Jones are featured on the title track of the Gorillaz album Plastic Beach 2010, marking the first time they had worked together in over 20 years. They later joined Gorillas on their Escape to Plastic beach tour for the remainder of 2010.
In July 2012, Strummer's daughters Jazz and Lola gave a rare interview to discuss the 10th anniversary of Strummer's death, his legacy and the possibility of a Clash reunion had their father lived. Jazz said there was talk about the Clash reforming before he died, but there had been talk for years and years about them reforming.
They had been offered stupid amounts of money to do it, but they were very good at keeping the moral high ground and saying no, but I think if dad hadn't died it would have happened.
It felt like it was in the air in the UK on the 9th of September 2013 and a day later in the US the Clash released a 12 disc box set called Sound System which includes their remastered studio albums on eight discs and three discs featuring demos, non album singles, rarities and B sides, a DVD with previously unseen footage by Don Lutz and Jillian Temple and other film footage and merchandising ephemera including an exclusive the Clash poster. Mick Jones and Paul Simonon oversaw the project, including the remasters.
The box set was accompanied by five album Studio Set which contains the first five studio albums excluding Cut the Crab and the Clash hits back, a 33 track 2 CD best of collection. In a 3 September 2013 interview with Rolling Stone, Mick Jones discussed the band reuniting, saying it likely would not have occurred.
Jones said, there were a few moments at the time I was up for it. Hall of fame reunion in 2003 Joe was up for it, Paul wasn't, and neither probably was Topper, who didn't wind up even coming in the end.
It didn't look like a performance was going to happen anyway. I mean, you usually play at that ceremony when you get in. Jo had passed by that point, so we didn't. We were never in agreement.
It was never at a point where all of us wanted to do it at the same time. Most importantly for us, we became friends again after the group broke up and continued that way for the rest of the time.
That was more important to us than the band. Jones also stated that the Sound System box set was the last time he would be involved in the band's releases.
I'm not even thinking about any more Clash releases. This is it for me and I say that with an exclamation mark.
On 6th September 2013, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Tom Burhaden reunited for an exclusive BBC Radio 6 music show to promote their legacy and the release of Sound system.
In an October 2013 interview with BBC 6 Music, Jones said Strummer did have intentions of a Clash reunion and that new music was being written for a possible album. In the months before Strummer's death, Jones and Strummer began working on new music for what he thought would be the next miss Galeros album.
Jones said, we wrote a batch. We didn't used to write one. We used to write a batch at a time like Gumbo.
The idea was he was going to go into the studio with the Mescaleras during the day and then send them all home. I'd come in at night and we'd work all night. According to Jones, months after their work together, he ran into Strummer at an event.
Strummer informed him the songs were going to be used for the next Clash album.
On 6th April 2022, the Clash announced the re release of Combat Rock, including demos with Ranking Rogers vocals titled Combat the People's Hall Rock, the Ranking Roger and Red Angel Ranking Roger were released as supporting singles. The re Release occurred on 20 May 2022 to mixed reviews.
On 11 November 2022, a month before the 20th anniversary of Strummer's death, founding member Keith Levine died in Norfolk, England. Politics the Clash's music often expresses left wing ideological sentiments. Strummer was a committed socialist.
The Clash are credited with pioneering the advocacy of radical politics in punk rock. NME dumped them Thinking Man's yops. Like many early punk bands, the Clash protested against monarchy and aristocracy.
But unlike many of their peers, they rejected nihilism. Instead, they found solidarity with a number of liberation movements and were often involved with groups such as the Anti Nazi League.
At their performance on 30 April 1978 at the Rock Against Racism concert in London's Victoria park for a crowd between 50,000 and 100,000 people, Strummer wore a T shirt identifying two far left armed militant groups. Italy's Red Brigades, the Brigatti Rossi misspelt as Brigade Rossi on the T shirt and West Germany's Red army faction.
According to rocket Michael Gilmore, the moment that best exemplifies the Clash took place in August 1977 at a music festival in Liege, Belgium. The band was playing before 20,000 people and had been under fire from a crowd that was throwing bottles at the stage.
But that wasn't what bothered lead singer Joe Strummer.
What enraged him was a 10 foot high barbed wire fence strung between concrete posts and forming a barrier between the group and the audience, he jumped from the stage and attacked the fence trying to pull it down. The Clash were the only performers at the show who tried to do anything about the obstacle.
They were more willing to run the risk of the crowd than to tolerate barbed wire that was meant to fend off that crowd. This is more or less what the Clash were about, fighting the good fight that few others would fight.
The band made their politics explicit in the lyrics of early recordings, including White Riot, which encourages disaffected white youths to riot like their black counterparts.
Career Opportunities, which address the alienation of low paid routine jobs and discontent over the lack of alternatives and London's Burning is about the bleakness and boredom of life in the inner city artist Caroline Kuhn, who is associated with the punk scene, said, those tough militaristic songs were what we needed as we went into Thatcherism.
The title of Sandinista refers to the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a group of left wing rebels who had recently overthrown Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Dubaida.
The album includes songs that were inspired by other political issues, Washington Bullets addresses covert military operations around the globe, and the Call up is a meditation on U.S. draft policies.
Scholars Simon Reynolds and Joy Press described Combat Rock's track Straight to Hell as an around the world at war and 5 verses guided tour of hell zones where boy soldiers had languished. The band's political sentiments are reflected in their resistance to the music industry's profit motivations.
Even at their peak, tickets to shows and souvenirs were reasonably priced.
The group insisted CBS sell their double and triple albums London Calling and Sandinista for the price of a single album, then £5, succeeding with the former and compromising with the latter by agreeing to sell it for $5.99 and forfeit their performance royalties on the first 200,000 sales. These value for money principles meant they were constantly in debt to CVS and only started to break even around 1982.
Musical style and Influences the Clash are mainly described as a punk rock band.
According to Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic, Sex Pistols may have been the first British punk rock band, but the Clash were the definitive British punk rockers. Later in their career, the Clash used elements of a variety of musical genres, including reggae, rockabilly, dub and R and B.
With their double album London Calling, the band expanded the breadth of their musical styles. Consequently, the band's music has been described as experimental rock and new wave.
Since their beginnings, the band has covered and composed songs in the reggae genre and incorporated lovers rock into Lyndon Calling, legacy and influence.
In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the Clash 28 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and in 2010, the band was ranked 22 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
According to the Times, the Clash's debut alongside Nevermind the Bollocks, here's the Sex Pistols is punk's definitive statement, and London Calling remains one of the most influential rock albums. London Calling was ranked eighth in Rolling Stone's 2003 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of all Time, which is the highest entry by a punk band.
In the same list, the Clash was ranked 77th and Sandinista was ranked 404th in the magazine's 2004 list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. London Calling was ranked 15 again, the highest entry for any song by a punk band. Four other Clash songs made the list. Should I Stay or should I go?
228 train in vain, 292 complete control, 361 in white man and Hammersmith Palais, 430 London Colling ranked number 48 in the magazine's 2008 list of the 100 greatest guitar songs of all time.
In 2010, the COVID art of London Calling was one of ten albums by British music acts whose albums were commemorated on a UK postage stamp issued by Royal Mail.
Jake Burns of Stiff Little Fingers, the first major punk band from Northern Ireland, said of their debut album's impact, the big watershed was the Clash album that was go out, cut your hair, stop mucking about time. You know, up to that point we'd still been singing about bowling down California highways. I mean, it meant nothing to me.
Although the Damned and the Pistols were great, they were only exciting musically. Lyrically. I couldn't really make a lot out of it.
To realize that the Clash were actually singing about their own lives in West London was like a bolt out of the blue. The Clash inspired many musicians who were only loosely associated, if at all, with punk.
The band's embrace of ska and reggae and England's Jamaican subculture helped provide impetus for the two tone movement that emerged after the punk explosion. Other musicians who began performing while the Clash were active and acknowledged their debt to the band include Billy Bragg and Aztec camera.
U2's the Edge has compared the clash's inspirational effect to that of the Ramones, both of which gave young rock musicians a sense that the door of possibility had swung open, he wrote. The Clash, more than any other group, kickstarted a thousand garage bands across Ireland and the uk.
Seeing them perform was a life changing experience. Bono described the Clash as the greatest rock band, and they wrote the rule book for U2.
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Transcript
Tonight on Sleep With Rockstars, we will sleep with the Clash welcome to Sleep With Rockstars, the Gen X Sleep Podcast.
Speaker A:Because you deserve a good night's sleep or whatever.
Speaker A:I'm Sloan Spencer.
Speaker A:In each Sleep With Rockstars sleep podcast, I will read from Wikipedia about your favorite Gen X musicians and bands.
Speaker A:If this podcast helps you relax and fall asleep, please leave a five star rating and a kind review in your favorite podcast app.
Speaker A:You may find that the more you listen, the more your mind will begin to associate these stories with sleep.
Speaker A:So feel free to return to each episode again and again.
Speaker A:Repetition can help create a signal to your brain that it's time to rest.
Speaker A:And if the musical act isn't your favorite, that's perfectly okay.
Speaker A:You don't need to pay close attention.
Speaker A:Instead, let the words flow over you.
Speaker A:Let their rhythm and softness lull you, not for interest, but for sleep.
Speaker A:You are not here to be entertained, you're here to let go.
Speaker A:Now let your breath guide you deeper into stillness.
Speaker A:Take a moment to settle in.
Speaker A:Gently close your eyes and let your body begin to rest.
Speaker B:There's nowhere you need to be, nothing.
Speaker A:You need to do.
Speaker A:This is your time.
Speaker A:A time to let go of the day.
Speaker B:Unwind and allow your mind to slow down.
Speaker A:With each breath in, invite, calm.
Speaker A:With each breath out, release the tension.
Speaker A:As your body begins to soften into the surface beneath you, imagine a gentle wave of warmth from the crown of your head to the tips of your toes, carrying away the weight of the day.
Speaker B: eunions and Strummer's death,: Speaker B: together on their respective: Speaker B: ack to the film sid and Nancy: Speaker B:Committed to Bad, Strummer moved on to solo projects and screen acting.
Speaker B: ing up, but was imprisoned in: Speaker B: In: Speaker B: Radio during the Gulf War in: Speaker B: th November: Speaker B:On 15 November, Jones and Strummer shared the stage performing three Clash songs during a London Ball benefit show by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros.
Speaker B:Strummer, Jones and Headen wanted to play a reunion show to coincide with their induction into the hall of Fame.
Speaker B:Simonon did not want to participate because he believed playing at the high priced event would not have been in the spirit of the clash.
Speaker B: nd December: Speaker B: In March: Speaker B: In early: Speaker B:On opening night, 11 January Headen joined the band for the Clash's song Train in Vain.
Speaker B:An encore followed with Headen playing drums on Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Speaker B: This was the first time since: Speaker B: In September: Speaker B: Gorillaz album Plastic Beach: Speaker B: ach tour for the remainder of: Speaker B: In July: Speaker B:Jazz said there was talk about the Clash reforming before he died, but there had been talk for years and years about them reforming.
Speaker B:They had been offered stupid amounts of money to do it, but they were very good at keeping the moral high ground and saying no, but I think if dad hadn't died it would have happened.
Speaker B: th of September: Speaker B:Mick Jones and Paul Simonon oversaw the project, including the remasters.
Speaker B:The box set was accompanied by five album Studio Set which contains the first five studio albums excluding Cut the Crab and the Clash hits back, a 33 track 2 CD best of collection.
Speaker B: September: Speaker B:Jones said, there were a few moments at the time I was up for it.
Speaker B: Hall of fame reunion in: Speaker B:It didn't look like a performance was going to happen anyway.
Speaker B:I mean, you usually play at that ceremony when you get in.
Speaker B:Jo had passed by that point, so we didn't.
Speaker B:We were never in agreement.
Speaker B:It was never at a point where all of us wanted to do it at the same time.
Speaker B:Most importantly for us, we became friends again after the group broke up and continued that way for the rest of the time.
Speaker B:That was more important to us than the band.
Speaker B:Jones also stated that the Sound System box set was the last time he would be involved in the band's releases.
Speaker B:I'm not even thinking about any more Clash releases.
Speaker B:This is it for me and I say that with an exclamation mark.
Speaker B: th September: Speaker B: In an October: Speaker B:In the months before Strummer's death, Jones and Strummer began working on new music for what he thought would be the next miss Galeros album.
Speaker B:Jones said, we wrote a batch.
Speaker B:We didn't used to write one.
Speaker B:We used to write a batch at a time like Gumbo.
Speaker B:The idea was he was going to go into the studio with the Mescaleras during the day and then send them all home.
Speaker B:I'd come in at night and we'd work all night.
Speaker B:According to Jones, months after their work together, he ran into Strummer at an event.
Speaker B:Strummer informed him the songs were going to be used for the next Clash album.
Speaker B: th April: Speaker B: May: Speaker B: November: Speaker B:Politics the Clash's music often expresses left wing ideological sentiments.
Speaker B:Strummer was a committed socialist.
Speaker B:The Clash are credited with pioneering the advocacy of radical politics in punk rock.
Speaker B:NME dumped them Thinking Man's yops.
Speaker B:Like many early punk bands, the Clash protested against monarchy and aristocracy.
Speaker B:But unlike many of their peers, they rejected nihilism.
Speaker B:Instead, they found solidarity with a number of liberation movements and were often involved with groups such as the Anti Nazi League.
Speaker B: April: Speaker B:Italy's Red Brigades, the Brigatti Rossi misspelt as Brigade Rossi on the T shirt and West Germany's Red army faction.
Speaker B: he Clash took place in August: Speaker B:The band was playing before 20,000 people and had been under fire from a crowd that was throwing bottles at the stage.
Speaker B:But that wasn't what bothered lead singer Joe Strummer.
Speaker B:What enraged him was a 10 foot high barbed wire fence strung between concrete posts and forming a barrier between the group and the audience, he jumped from the stage and attacked the fence trying to pull it down.
Speaker B:The Clash were the only performers at the show who tried to do anything about the obstacle.
Speaker B:They were more willing to run the risk of the crowd than to tolerate barbed wire that was meant to fend off that crowd.
Speaker B:This is more or less what the Clash were about, fighting the good fight that few others would fight.
Speaker B:The band made their politics explicit in the lyrics of early recordings, including White Riot, which encourages disaffected white youths to riot like their black counterparts.
Speaker B:Career Opportunities, which address the alienation of low paid routine jobs and discontent over the lack of alternatives and London's Burning is about the bleakness and boredom of life in the inner city artist Caroline Kuhn, who is associated with the punk scene, said, those tough militaristic songs were what we needed as we went into Thatcherism.
Speaker B:The title of Sandinista refers to the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a group of left wing rebels who had recently overthrown Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Dubaida.
Speaker B:The album includes songs that were inspired by other political issues, Washington Bullets addresses covert military operations around the globe, and the Call up is a meditation on U.S. draft policies.
Speaker B:Scholars Simon Reynolds and Joy Press described Combat Rock's track Straight to Hell as an around the world at war and 5 verses guided tour of hell zones where boy soldiers had languished.
Speaker B:The band's political sentiments are reflected in their resistance to the music industry's profit motivations.
Speaker B:Even at their peak, tickets to shows and souvenirs were reasonably priced.
Speaker B:The group insisted CBS sell their double and triple albums London Calling and Sandinista for the price of a single album, then £5, succeeding with the former and compromising with the latter by agreeing to sell it for $5.99 and forfeit their performance royalties on the first 200,000 sales.
Speaker B: started to break even around: Speaker B:Musical style and Influences the Clash are mainly described as a punk rock band.
Speaker B:According to Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic, Sex Pistols may have been the first British punk rock band, but the Clash were the definitive British punk rockers.
Speaker B:Later in their career, the Clash used elements of a variety of musical genres, including reggae, rockabilly, dub and R and B.
Speaker B:With their double album London Calling, the band expanded the breadth of their musical styles.
Speaker B:Consequently, the band's music has been described as experimental rock and new wave.
Speaker B:Since their beginnings, the band has covered and composed songs in the reggae genre and incorporated lovers rock into Lyndon Calling, legacy and influence.
Speaker B: In: Speaker B:According to the Times, the Clash's debut alongside Nevermind the Bollocks, here's the Sex Pistols is punk's definitive statement, and London Calling remains one of the most influential rock albums.
Speaker B: ked eighth in Rolling Stone's: Speaker B: th in the magazine's: Speaker B:London Calling was ranked 15 again, the highest entry for any song by a punk band.
Speaker B:Four other Clash songs made the list.
Speaker B:Should I Stay or should I go?
Speaker B: in the magazine's: Speaker B: In: Speaker B:Jake Burns of Stiff Little Fingers, the first major punk band from Northern Ireland, said of their debut album's impact, the big watershed was the Clash album that was go out, cut your hair, stop mucking about time.
Speaker B:You know, up to that point we'd still been singing about bowling down California highways.
Speaker B:I mean, it meant nothing to me.
Speaker B:Although the Damned and the Pistols were great, they were only exciting musically.
Speaker B:Lyrically.
Speaker B:I couldn't really make a lot out of it.
Speaker B:To realize that the Clash were actually singing about their own lives in West London was like a bolt out of the blue.
Speaker B:The Clash inspired many musicians who were only loosely associated, if at all, with punk.
Speaker B:The band's embrace of ska and reggae and England's Jamaican subculture helped provide impetus for the two tone movement that emerged after the punk explosion.
Speaker B:Other musicians who began performing while the Clash were active and acknowledged their debt to the band include Billy Bragg and Aztec camera.
Speaker B:U2's the Edge has compared the clash's inspirational effect to that of the Ramones, both of which gave young rock musicians a sense that the door of possibility had swung open, he wrote.
Speaker B:The Clash, more than any other group, kickstarted a thousand garage bands across Ireland and the uk.
Speaker B:Seeing them perform was a life changing experience.
Speaker B:Bono described the Clash as the greatest rock band, and they wrote the rule book for U2.
Speaker B:While Sex Pistol's debut gig, Manchester's lesser Free Trade hall, has been acknowledged as the starting point of that city's punk scene, the Clash's first performance at Eric's, where they were supported by the Specials, had a similar effect in Liverpool, the gig was witnessed by Jane Casey, Julian Cope, Pete Wiley, Pete Burns, Bill Drummond, Holly Johnson, Will Sargent Budgie and Ian McCullough.
Speaker B: ortant the Clash were back in: Speaker B:We loved the Pistols.
Speaker B:Self aware nihilism, but we didn't want to be the Pistols.
Speaker B:And if the Clash were cartoon heroic and occasionally a bit silly, we still loved them and recognized the risks they were taking.
Speaker B:The Clash's influence can be heard in the works of American political punk bands such as the Offspring, Rancid, Anti Flag, Bad Religion, no Effects, Green Day and Rise against and the political hard rock of early Manic Street Preachers.
Speaker B:California band Rancid were known as incurable Clash zealots.
Speaker B:The title track of Rancid's album Indestructible says, I'll keep listening to that great Joe Strummer Outside rock music Chuck D has credited the Clash as an inspiration for Public Enemy, in particular for their use of socially and politically conscious lyrics, which gained them attention from the music press.
Speaker B:They talked about important subjects, so therefore journalists printed what they said, which was very pointed.
Speaker B:We took that from the Clash because we were very similar in that regard.
Speaker B:Public Enemy just did it.
Speaker B: Ten years later, in: Speaker B:According to biographer Antonio Ambrosio, McClash's involvement with Jamaican musical and production styles inspired similar cross cultural efforts by bands such as bad brains, massive attack, 311, sublime and no Doubt.
Speaker B:Jacob Dylan of the Wallflowers lists London Calling as the record that changed his life.
Speaker B: rage rock revival of the late: Speaker B:Among the many late 20th century British acts identified as having been inspired by the Clash are Baby Shambles, the Future Heads, the Charlatans and Arctic Monkeys.
Speaker B: lm and television, the band's: Speaker B: s in multiple episodes of the: Speaker B: lash obsessed teenager who in: Speaker B: had an international hit in: Speaker B: referenced London calling on: Speaker B: n was released as a single in: Speaker B: duled for release in November: Speaker B: In June: Speaker B:The concert was later released on DVD as London Calling Live in Hyde Park.
Speaker B: erformed the same song at the: Speaker B: In: Speaker B: ket for the soundtrack to the: Speaker B:The band has also had a notable impact on music in the Spanish speaking world.
Speaker B: In: Speaker B:Many Rock en Espanol bands such as Todos Tu Muertos, Cafe Tacuba, Nadita, Pecinedad, Los Brizoneros, Timona no Ataque, Siete Siete are indebted to the Clash.
Speaker B:Argentina's Los Fabulosas Cadillacs covered Should I Stay Or Should I Go, Lennon Collings, Revolution Rock and the Guns of Brixton and invited McJones to sing on their song Malbicho.
Speaker B:The Clash's influence is similarly reflected in Paris founded band Mono Negra's politicized lyrics and fusion of musical styles.
Speaker B: In March: Speaker B:A London Calling the song was mixed in Los Angeles by music producer Danny Saber, and proceeds from its sale were designed to help fund war efforts.
Speaker B: Band members classic lineup: Speaker B: ,:
