Pearl Harbour Tour - Larry McIntyre Fund Benefit
Supported by Bo Diddley & Alex Bevan
updated 8 March 2007
updated 7 July 2008 - added 10 track soundboard
updated 25 December - possible video source?
updated Dec 2014 better audio review
Updated June 2022 -added Pulse magazine link
updated xmas 2023 added (TNEW45) ARTICLE CLEVELAND
Various sources
We have have been bombarded over the years with various Agora recordings. All you need is source 9 which has he best 20 track FM and includes the best 4 KBFH recordings on the end.
The King Biscuit Flower Hour FM is the best (4 tracks) and matched by Wolfgangs Vault 10 track version, 4 of which were the KBFH broadcast. On better versions Joe announces Safe European Home before the radio annoucer speaks. Most copies miss the first few seconds.
The full 20 track FM version is slightly infereior but by a risla paper's width better than the bootleg LP Police and Fireman. Unlike KBH and Wolfgangs Vault, on the full 20 track FM version "s***" on Stay Free is not edited out.
Wolfang's Vault soundboard provides the best 10 tracks and the full FM version providing in good quality the remaining 10
Here's the list!
Audio 1 King Biscuit Flower Hour FM
Tracks 4 - 16mins - sound 3.0 - unknown source
Audio 2 King Biscuit Flower Hour FM
Tracks 4 - 16mins - sound 3.5 - unknown source
Audio 3 King Biscuit Flower Hour FM
Tracks 4 - 16mins - sound 3.5 - unknown source
Joe announces Safe European Home before the radio annoucer speaks. Most copies miss first few seconds
Audio 4 - Police and Fireman LP
(Scratched/Heavy)
Sound 3.5 - 49min - LP - 15 tracks [1-15]
Audio 5 - Police and Fireman LP
Sound 4 - 49min - lp/master - 15 tracks [1-15]
Includes Janie Jones (trk 16) from lesser source
Audio 6 - Police and Fireman LP
Sound 4 - 49min - lp/master - 15 tracks [1-15]
Includes Janie Jones (trk 16) from lesser source
Audio 7 - Full FM source & KBFH
1hr 5mins (FM) + 15mins (KBFH - Sound 4.5 - 20 tracks + 4 tracks
Sound 4.5 - 1hr 1min - 20 tracks
Alternatively spliced FM version
Audio 9 - Wolfgangs Official soundboard
35mins - sound 4.0 - master - Tracks 10
rom www.concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/
Much of a muchness like KBFH, slightly better than FM version
Audio - Pulse Magazines live tracks/article
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possible video?
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I just got an email from a guy and this is what he said
"Would you know if any video footage is circulating of the clash at the Cleveland Agora from 1979? I remember that WUAB local news tv station filmed all or at least some of the set as part of a story on the guy that the bennefit concert was for. I didnt have a VCR back then to record it and the tv station no longer exists that aired the report,all of their stock news umatic video footage was taken to the dump years ago.
So maybe someone has it but with it being a news report it would be a slim chance someone taped and kept it.
An email arrived at BMC asking;"Would you know if any video footage is circulating of the clash at the Cleveland Agora from 1979? I remember that WUAB local news tv station filmed all or at least some of the set as part of a story on the guy that the bennefit concert was for. I didnt have a VCR back then to record it and the tv station no longer exists that aired the report,all of their stock news umatic video footage was taken to the dump years ago.
Sound Quality: Classic clash gig
From Here To Eternity’ has great sound quality and professional performances but fails to capture the excitement, the mania, the atmosphere, the “controlled explosion on stage” that The Clash, like no other band before or since, could conjure.
There are 3 known variants of this gig circulating with varying lengths and sound quality, all seemingly from the same source.
Recorded professionally for local FM radio, the sound mix is particularly good in capturing the Clash sound, with Mick’s lead in one stereo channel and Joe’s rhythm in the other. Bass, drums are also all excellent, the only fault with the mix being the vocals which are not as “in your face” as they could be.
Police and Firemen LP
The gig was released as the Police (and Firemen) On My Back bootleg LP on Klashin Records in Canada in 81.
A lot of poor copies from circulate. Old tapes lifted from the vinyl
The LP has no edits between songs (see below) and therefore captures the atmosphere best, and includes all Joe’s between song comments and attempts to stop the crushing at the front.
It excludes though the 5 songs in the 2 encores [tracks 16-20]. Sound is excellent stereo but the LP suffers from surface noise from scratches. The LP was subsequently re-released with different artwork.
FM versions
An FM version also exist. With the exception of I’m So Bored which lacks the same quality at the start as the rest with great professional clarity and range. The twin guitar attack of The Clash is captured superbly.
King Biscuit Flower Hour Broadcast
Four tracks were also broadcast in very good stereo FM quality on the King Biscuit Flower Hour radio programme; Safe European Home, Stay Free, Police and Thieves & Julies been working for the Drug Squad. Oddly the mix on these tracks is different losing the 2 guitar split into the channels but has clearer vocals!
Pearl Harbour Tour
The Clash thrilled to be in the US for their first tour were in terrific form. Joe was suffering from chronic toothache for this benefit gig but jokes and berates the journalists. He would write a diary for the UK NME,
‘This guy called Larry McIntyre lost both his legs in Vietnam and when he went for a swim one day in the pool near his flat all the other residents banned him from the pool on the grounds that it was too disgusting…so we agree to play a show for him, helping his legal costs but we don’t get to meet him, I think because having forgot his name, I referred to him over the P.A. as “the guy with no legs”. Joe surely used him later though as the inspiration for the Car Jamming lyrics, “..boots blown off in a 60’s war..”.
Caroline Coon remembers this as a particularly intense show. Kids were fainting in the crush at the front. Most bands didn’t provoke that kind of intense response so the local security didn’t know what to do.
In an article that first appeared in the Melody Maker (24/2/79) and was reprinted in Uncut November 97 Allan Jones wrote of meeting up with The Clash in freezing cold Cleveland and witnessed this gig and the next one in Washington. Never a Clash fan Jones wrote the band were great but shambolic at times, trying to cope with an audience, going wild and gobbing. White Man was interrupted as bodies were dragged over the footlights and passed backstage. The crush at the front was now murderous and Mick’s face was white with anxiety.
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The Agora Theatre and Ballroom (commonly known as the Cleveland Agora, or simply, the Agora) is a music venue located in Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Henry "Hank" LoConti Sr. The Agora name was used by two other Cleveland venues in succession, the latter of which was damaged by fire in 1984. The current Agora venue, known as such since 1986, first opened in 1913 as the Metropolitan Theatre.
On December 29, 2011, the LoConti family donated the Agora to MidTown Cleveland Inc., a nonprofit organization.
an essential recording
This recordings [in various forms] captures the sweaty, manic atmosphere of The Clash magnificently and therefore is an essential recording. A very, very popular gig amongst collectors...
All the song performances are superb with an extended Police & Thieves being the highlight (of a gig full of highlights), with Joe making fun of US consumerism, salads, tv channels and at one point shouting “I don’t want 56 pairs of trousers, 3 cadillacs!..”.
The 20 tracks
FL = FULL
1. I’m So Bored With The USA (15 seconds of start of song edited from FL)
2. Drug Stabbing Time
3. Jail Guitar Doors (30 seconds of intro cut on FL “Thank you to whoever sent information backstage, stuck in envelopes, and I mean paper”
4. Tommy Gun
5. City of the Dead (100 seconds cut on intro on FL “I’m glad to see you’re so free with your money, for this guys got no legs, I assume you know what I’m talking about. And those of you at the back with the American/English dictionary, forget it man, they don’t give a fuck for the words.
This is a Japanese number, released by Hank Williams in 1965.. [which Strummer was to repeat at several other venues as well]”)
6. Hate and War
7. White Man in Hammersmith Palais (40 seconds cut on intro on FL, Joe tries to stop the crushing)
8. Safe European Home
9. Stay Free (40 seconds cut on intro on FL, Mick intro)
10. English Civil War (30 seconds intro cut on FL)
11. Guns On The Roof (30 seconds intro cut on FL)
12. Police and Thieves (45 seconds cut on FL . “We have to talk to a lot of journalists and they always ask, excuse me sir, but does your music have a message? If you say yeah, you let yourself in for, oh yeah well what is the message, so for all you trainee journalists in the audience this is the message…can we have the lights down please …Oooh! ,Oooh!, Oooh!, Oooh, Oooh, Oooh!)
13. Capital Radio
14. Janie Jones
15. Garageland
16. Julie’s Been Working for the Drug Squad
17. London’s Burning
18. White Riot
19. Complete Control
20. What’s My Name
Tracks 16 -20 are on the FL version only.
The crowd was so wild
Ova Dey: When the Clash started their set with "I'm so bored with U-S-A! , well, the place erupted. WMMS was'nt playing The Clash or much of any other punk, but strangely, they sponsored this show. They knew it was "new", this punk rock, but they never really figured out how to "sell" it.
This show remains in my top 3 of all time. The crowd was so wild, I was actually scared at a concert for the first time ever in my life.
WMMS taped the concert as they usually did at the Agora, but they refused to play it on the air, as they normally did. I called WMMS honk, "Matt the Cat" that week and he said, "we did'nt tape it". He lied. I knew then that WMMS was stuck in the past, they did everything right from 1968 to 1978 basically, but again, the punks just mystified them. They were afraid of losing their built in album oriented rock audience.
A lot of WMMS's fans would call in and rip them for playing punk, unfortunately, a gutless John Gorman gave in. WMMS, which had opened many new doors for Roxy Music, T-Rex, David Bowie, Bruce, Artful Dodger, Todd Rundgren, Mott The Hoople, The New York Dolls, and many, many others, was slayed by punk rock and new wave.They became a Dinosaur themselves.
The Clash knew it, and by selecting "I'm So Bored with the U-S-A!" as their opening number on their first American tour, they were like Paul Revere. The Punks are coming! The Punks are here!
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(TNEW45) ARTICLE CLEVELAND, FEBRUARY 1979
February 1979
Pulse Magazines live tracks/article
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The Agora Show is a benefit
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Ray Sfferra / Ohio: While poking around your site in the gigography section I noticed that there was a Clash show listed as Cleveland, Sept. 18, 1979 [we have removed this listing]. Now I was only 18 at the time, but I think I would have remembered if they had come twice in the same year, and I would have gone to that show for sure because I had a car and was 18.
So as I said I would try to find more reviews for you anyway, I decided to go to the Cleveland library for some research.
I looked up microforms for Scene Magazine and The Plain Dealer where necessary. The Plain Dealer is the main Cleveland newspaper. The first date I checked was Sept. 18, 1979. I checked Scene both for the previous week and the week after, looking for an ad/listing and the review. I could find neither. There is no way Scene would have ignored such a show and at the least it would have been listed the week before. So I would say that this show never happened, at least not on that date.
I then checked for the February, 1979 show. This I found as February 13, not 14 as is listed on your site [date now corrected / 2005]. There is a great review of this show and I even found a mention of the benefit in the previous week's Scene.
I then checked for the 1984 Cleveland show. I had to check the Plain Dealer because someone had stolen the reels for late 1982 through mid-1985 or so (which also included the KSU show I wanted to check). I did however find it. It appears to have been Friday, May 11, 1984 at Public Hall in Cleveland. It is a pretty good review written by Jane Scott, who had even covered the Beatles appearance in Cleveland and was considered well-liked and knowledgeable about the music scene despite her age at that time. I saw her at shows often. I believe she just died recently.
Like I said, I tried to get the KSU review. I should be able to find it somewhere along with the Scene review of the '84 show. And incidentally, the Akron '82 show was at the Akron Civic Theatre, not Civic Center. I also have the '96 Cleveland Pistols show review if you or someone is interested.
Ray from Ohio
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