last updated 28 Dec 01
In support of Green Wedge
Joe Strummer and the Latino Rockabilly War
Joe Strummer: Vocals and Rhythm Guitar
Zander Schloss - guitar
Roberto Pla - Percussion
Jim Donica - Bass
Willie McNeill : Drums
Audio recording 1 (lesser/fuller)
Cdr - good and poor
Sound 2/4
Unknown gen?
Time 52min
15 songs / 15 tracks
Love Kills
Audio recording (six tracks only/better/skips)
Cdr - good and poor
Sound 2/4
Unknown gen?
Time 21min
6 tracks (starred on list)
Love Kills
Joe says Police & Thieves but it's Love Kills. has skip at 1.45. Odd skip across whole recording.
There is a 6 track version (tracks with *) which seems to be a flawed soundbaoard? They are not of brilliant quality, but better than most on the tour. They also came to be with edits both between tracks and within tracks.
A fuller 15 track version exists but some of the tracks sound like a poor audience source, particularly toward the end. This could be a mixture of two????
Video - semi-official
appeared on the offcial Joe Strummer site
3 tracks so far - 2 camera
Time 2:26+4:36+5:52
Frame/fps 480x360/NTSC
Sound and picture excellent
However we don't think they are from the Tabernacle as Joe didn't play either V-Thirteen or Straight to Hell on the early dates on this tour and they are not on the audio tape. Joe started playing them at the Electric Ball room and on the Class War dates. The three tracks are from the same gig.
Here’s the note from one of the camera men:
This footage of Strummer & The Latino Rockabilly War performing “Straight to Hell” has never been seen before.
I was one of the 2 cameras that shot it at the Tabernacle in Notting Hill, London in 1988 as part of the Green Wedge Benefit Tour.
I found it while going through some old tapes.
It was shot on 3/4″ Umatic tapes for the technically curious. I was part of a community video group that ran out of Mangrove Studios on All Saints Road which at that time was a “No Go” zone for the police.
The video mixing between cameras was done by someone who didn’t have much experience doing it which is why it is sort of… well…. messy. And which may be why it was never released.
Video quality isn’t very good because of standards conversions, dubs etc but still, it is Strummer performing which is pretty cool. Enjoy. Bill
The Night before the Milton Keynes 2 day festival. A local warm up and first live performance of the LRW and Joes since the Clash split in 1985.
Did you go? What do you remember?
Info, articles, reviews, comments or photos welcome.
Please
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"The day after bump into the Ramones in oxford street after travelling down to london just to see them, I hear joe strummers playing a hometown gig in ladbroke grove and I manage to grab a single spare ticket at the door in the same street that they shot Jagger in 'Performance'. "
"The place is heaving everyones on guinness or red stripe or that funny sweet smelling tobacco. Strummer is introduced as 'a local boy made god' the set is beset with sound problems as don letts videos it all from the corner. The band look like they dont have a clue what they've let themselves in for, everyones finding their feet. The set is cover heavy and short due to the bad on stage sound mix. Strummer apologises and its all over. Nice to be there, but no great shakes."
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There are several sights that provide setlists but most mirror www.blackmarketclash.co.uk. They are worth checking.
from Setlist FM (cannot be relied on)
from Songkick (cannot be relied on)
... both have lists of people who say they went
& from the newer Concert Database and also Concert Archives
Also useful: Ultimate Music database, All Music, Clash books at DISCOGS
Articles, check 'Rocks Back Pages'
Sounds 6 Aug 88
Fantastic interview with Joe during the Doncaster and Liverpool Gigs
New Statesman 20 June 1988
Combat Rock. Joe: "I'm not amillionaire Strummer rants against the Rich".
Sunday Times 17 April 1988
Rock the Rich Class War
Rock and railing with Cafe Society
1988 01 31 LA Times
Strummer Interview Strummer on Man, God, Law
France, MUSIC Mag
'Joe Strummer: Rock Against Rupins'
Class War Tour pamplet - Joe
Class War leaflet - Joe
PUNTERS VIEW
Hi, Just wanted to say what a great site you have and to offer you a "punters view" on Joe's Green Wedge Tour.
I didn't see the Tabernacle gig as I had no idea that it was happening, I had, however, already got tickets for the Milton Keynes Amnesty gig. My mate and I drove up from Tunbridge Wells in Kent and spent a blisteringly hot day getting slowly drunk and quickly sunburned! My memories of the weekend are fairly vague; Big Audio Dynamite were good as always, New Model Army were fucking great I seem to remember, The Men They Couldn't Hang were good fun, but The Latino Rockabilly War were a little underwhelming - maybe nerves? - but I do know that seeing Joe for the first time since The Clash was exciting enough, never mind the performance. I'm not sure, but I think they were better on the Sunday.
I didn't see the Brixton gig, but was at Hackney Empire for a very strange evening of "alternative" comedy and music. Tony Allen was quite funny, Jerry Sadowitz was exceedingly funny but his set was very short, mainly because of the reaction he was getting from some pretty hardline feminists in that night (I remember he said something about Anne Diamond having a miscarriage that brought torrents of abuse). Strummer was on good form that night and I know we enjoyed the band much more than at Milton Keynes, maybe just because it was indoors. I don't really remember the set, but I think it may have been the first time they did "Oye Como Va", and I remember being quite taken aback at how "Latin" this thing really was. Loads of percussion. Wow! I think "Ride Your Donkey" was played as well, and what a lovely groove that always was.
The Electric Ballroom is already well documented, but I too think it was where everything came together. A really interesting set list, (B.A.
D. songs for christ's sake!) and a truly great night out.
Then it was on to probably the strangest venue I've ever been to - Brentford Fountain Leisure Centre. I remember you had to walk past the swimming pool with families enjoying their Saturday evening fun on the water slides and suchlike. God knows what they thought of all these rebel rockers invading their nice little playground. The gig itself was on a basketball court with a small stage set up at one end. It made for an odd setting, but a nice intimate one. The sound wasn't that great, but Joe and the boys put on a really good show, and Zander Schloss was pretty much on fire if I remember rightly. I didn't see them again until the Town & Country gigs the next year (I still have my autographed ticket from one of those).
So there you are. Not a lot of detail I'm afraid, but hopefully you'll find my brief recollections of some interest.
Yours, N.C. <jcp666[a]tiscali.co.uk>
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