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Lost interview tape

"I just stumbled on this site while doing a google ‘egoist' search. Great site. I wish I could find my taped interview with Joe. That was a story in itself. I must've woke up Kosmo at every stop from Cleveland to Denver where he finally put me through to Joe to do a pre-concert interview.

You should try and get that from the Oregon Daily Emerald…or I could look in my files. If I recall Joe was getting ready for the Denver show…he was testy and abrupt…and loosened up later.

My interview style was not to go by set questions…but to have question points and just talk.

I remember asking about recording at Olympic Studios, which was being talked about…and joked that this was supposed to be The Rolling Stones favorite room. No laughter from Joe on that. And it was pouring down rain, with thunder in Denver and it made Joe in bad mood. I casually told him to put that mood into the show. But this was cool. Wish I was a better writer back then.

The photos are by Mark Pynes, now the photo editor of the Harrisburg, Pa. newspaper. Wish I could find the interview tape…I think my ex-wife stole it. Cheers, Cort Fernald"

Do these men look like Dolly Party Impersonators

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Paramount Theatre, Seattle WA

Duff

The show was well attended

I was just reading your page about the Clash Live at the Paramount in Seattle, October, 1979. I don't know why Kerrang magazine says there were only about 150 people there. There were at least that many waiting in line outside several hours before the venue opened. I was one of them.

The show was well attended. The theater has a capacity of 2,800. I'm not saying the show was a sellout, but there were way more people than 150 just on the main floor. We weren't sitting in seats where I stood at the rail of the orchestra pit.

Outside we'd been pestered by the local news paper reporters who wanted to get the crowd to do something violent, so they could make a stink and sell papers. Word spread quickly that reporters couldn't publish your photo without your consent. Fans kept refusing to answer provocative questions, which frustrated them greatly. At one point I remember everyone turning their backs to the wall when they held up a camera. I was so proud of us.

Another error in the Kerrang article was who grabbed the axe. For some reason several articles get this wrong. I was there at the railing. It was Paul Simonon wanting to chop down the wooden barrier surrounding the orchestra pit, so we could get closer to the stage. It was not Mick Jones or Joe Strummer. I suspect the error comes from people retelling the story who weren't there. BTW he was stoped before any damage was done.

There was some idiot with a large SLR camera taking photos of the crowd in the orchestra pit. An overexcited girl wearing a spiked bracelet caught the corner of my eye. I began to bleed a little. The idiot pointed his camera in my face hoping to get a shot of teen violence. I knew what he was after, so I grabbed it and spit a gob right into the lens. I can still remember the look of disappointment on his face 45 years later.

mark w <beardedphotosatyahoo.com>

Referenced in Johnny Greens Book, A Riot of Our Own p211

Kerrang Paul Simonon came out wth an axe

May 2019

Duff McKagan

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The Clash at Seattle's Paramount Theater by Bob Kondrak RIP

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