Rock Against The Rich Tour
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
cdr - average - tape appears speeded up slightly
Sound 2.5
Time 69min -
unknown gen?
21 songs / 22 tracks
I Fought the Law
A below average recording that suffers some mild distortion, noise and is slightly distant, though it has a reasonably wide-ish sound. Crowd noise detracts a little as well.
Bristol Evening Post.
Bierkeller, Bristol: Joe Strummer with the Latino Rockabilly War.
CLASS War, the militant anarchist group, which organised Joe Strummer’s Rock Against The Rich Tour, must have made so much money from this gig, they are in grave danger of rocking against themselves.
Devotes of Strummer and his former band, The Clash, flocked to the Bierkeller to see one of the great names of rock in action.
There’s no point telling the sweating masses that Strummer was a pale shadow of himself in his days with the clash.
Though he certainly was just that, Strummer is far from a spent force and the crowd loved him.
Commanding and cool, strummer is a rock and roll animal and always will be.
He still walks the wild side with his presentation and his new material is still inspired by conflict – most noticeably Nicaragua, and the Spanish Civil War.
A smattering of Clash songs kept the crowd leaping and chanting, and gave the band the platform to introduce new material styled on Latin and Spanish guitar influences, and reggae beats.
Richard Jones
Class War Tour '88
Posted by Tony on 1/11/2003, 8:37 pm
The following is a tribute to Joe posted by Ian Bone who was one of the founders of Class War the British anarchist group that Joe played a tour supporting in 1988.
I am sure that he would approve of me posting it here.
Joe Strummer died of a heart atack at his home near Bridgwater on Sunday.
"A few words about Joe Strummer. He played a memorably rumbustuous gig at the Bierkellar in 1987 as part of Class War's Rock against the Rich tour.The local Class War group was supposed to sort out his hotel for the night and booked him into the Grosvenor down by Temple Meads - so it wasnt exactly traditional rock star lifestyle! A few of us had bumpped into Joe a couple of months earlier in a pub in Ladbroke Grove and asked him to do a benefit for the Stamford Hill squatters who'd just suffered a big eviction. Joe agreed to do it at the Hackney Empire without hesitation. The day after we thought we'd chance our arm and ask if he'd do a gig in Brixton as well. Again he agreed immediately. Finally we asked him to do a whole Rock Against the Rich tour all over the country - 18 gigs -and he not only agreed but paid the wages of his American band Latino-Rockabilly War and their travel and living expenses.There was a paricularly memorable gig at Brodsworth Miners Welfare Hall near Doncaster where the miners and Strummer raised the ####ing roof in mutual solidarity. Afterwards Joe said the best organised tour he ever did was organised by anarchists! Two weeks ago he was still at it doing a firefighters benefit in Acton with Andy Gilchrist and Mick Jones back up on stage.Top geezer. Sorely missed.But as another top Joe once said'Don't Mourn - Organise'."
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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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