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4 nights at Cape Cod Coliseum
Following Pittsburgh, The Clash played at the Cape Cod Coliseum in South Yarmouth MA. The second night being the 21st and Joe’s 30th birthday.
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Bob Curley was good enough to share this Original Ticket, he wrote...
An old friend sent me this photo last night. He found this in an old box of memories. Saturday 21st of August 1982, Combat Rock Tour North American Campaign! Cape Cod Coliseum Hyannis Massachusetts
Joyce Millman - "And a night at the decrepit Cape Cod Coliseum in 1982, when I met the Clash for the first and only time and was too wobbly to say anything of substance, not that it mattered. Strummer was silent and either exhausted or stoned; his eyes were hooded and evasive. I still have the ticket stub that they signed for me. Strummer’s signature, in ballpoint pen, has faded away and is barely readable next to the brighter permanent Sharpie autographs of Jones and Simonon. As I look at it now, I realize something: The date of the show was August 21, 1982. It was Strummer’s 30th birthday." Link, Archived PDF
Cape Cod Coliseum, South Yarmouth MA
Cape Cod Coliseum was a multi-purpose arena located off White's Path in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts.
In addition to sporting events, the coliseum hosted rock concerts.
The 46,000-square foot concrete arena opened in 1972 and sat between 5,000-6,500 people. The arena was originally owned by Yarmouth real estate agent William Harrison and cost $1.5 million to build.
In 1976, the arena was sold to Ed Fruean who owned Coliseum for three years before selling it to Vince McMahon in 1979.
In 1984, McMahon sold the building to Christmas Tree Shops who chose to utilize it as a warehouse. The final event, a World Wrestling Federation event, occurred on June 4, 1984.As of March 2007, it houses the wares of several businesses.
The Cape Cod Coliseum would continue to bring in big time acts as the decade turned to the 1980’s. Aerosmith, Def Leppard, The Clash, Talking Heads, and Iron Maiden mixed established artists with up and coming stars plying their trade inside the arena.
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Setlist for the 21st?
Michael Kloongian shared this photo of a setlist from I assume an exhibition, It says itís from 22nd of August 1982, So again this would of been from one of the Clash's Cape Cod Coliseum gigs From their 1982 Combat Rock Tour. Given it was taken off his guitar on the day off, the 22nd, we guess it is the setlist for the 21st?
A blurred message, Jim Sullivan
82 08 23 The Boston Globe Mon (Cape 21)
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Clash of Opinion, Letters, Jim Sullivan
82 08 18 The Boston Globe Sat
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some yarn about important people from the record label
Anon: There was definitely a day or two off after the 21st (Joe's 30th b-day party, Kosmo somehow talked the hotel into letting us in at the closed bar, some yarn about important people from the record label being there.
I remember Joe being behind the bar pouring drinks. In between the Clash gigs Elvis Costello played in the same venue. And The Baker somehow talked me into bringing my mom to the last night, the one and only Pulsallama supported this night.
Went back to the Holiday Inn with the band after
Michael Kloongian - Went back to the Holiday Inn with the band after the show to celebrate Joe’s 30th. Great night! ...
A night at the decrepit Cape Cod Coliseum
Joyce : And a night at the decrepit Cape Cod Coliseum in 1982, when I met the Clash for the first and only time and was too wobbly to say anything of substance, not that it mattered.
Strummer was silent and either exhausted or stoned; his eyes were hooded and evasive. I still have the ticket stub that they signed for me.
Strummer’s signature, in ballpoint pen, has faded away and is barely readable next to the brighter permanent Sharpie autographs of Jones and Simonon. As I look at it now, I realize something: The date of the show was August 21, 1982. It was Strummer’s 30th birthday. Joyce Millman
A BLURRED MESSAGE
Boston Globe 8/23/1982
YARMOUTH - The Clash have always carried a heavy load. In 1977, they and the Sex Pistols emerged most prominently from the clamorous London punk rock scene. The Sex Pistols declared anarchy; they set out to tear apart rock 'n' roll conventions and have a good laugh along the way. The Clash, as angry and bored as the Pistols, promised something else; their attack was as fast and as harsh, but within Mick Jones' guitar chords and Joe Strummer's coarse vocals came a triumph of spirit. Traditionalists in punk gear. The Clash gave off the feeling that the four of them could somehow save rock 'n' roll from itself its fatuousness, its bloated escapist concerns - and for the audience. High stakes, these.
Five years and about a hundred songs down the road, and these stakes are still at the crux of The Clash. They've become hugely popular now - Saturday's 100-minute show was the second of three sell-out dates at the 7200-capacity Cape Cod Coliseum - and embraced by a mainstream audience that may see them as little more than this generation's Rolling Stones: English stars with loud guitars.
The question hangs: Does the banner of rock 'n' roll as a passionate, revolutionary force still fly high?
Judging from Saturday's show, the banner still seems to be flying- but it's not at full mast. The ideals are still there, the integrity is obviously intact, but the execution does not seem what it once was. The impact was less than a vise-like grip - the established Clash standard.
As strong as some of the material was, there was a static quality to the show, a raggedness to the presentation and at the same time a sense of misplaced caution. When The Clash first played the Boston area at Harvard Square Theater in early 1979, they kicked off the how with "I'm So Bored With the USA." The Clash hadn't been to America when they wrote the song a three-chord, barbed-wire anthem against American TV and American politics - but when they bared into it, they locked into American frustrations with ease. They'd won the crowd within three minutes.
Saturday night it was their final song. It sounded listless, sloppy they missed the melody line completely - and, mostly wrong. America has practically become The Clash's turf. They record here, tour most successfully here, and are critically acclaimed here. Their new music shows many American influences. When a song shifts from an anthem to a question mark, something's gone awry.
Essentially, The Clash have moved several steps from the cutting edge. Call it the cutting middle, which is to say, the songs have bite, but they don't carry quite the charge. The songs performed from the new (and the most successful to date) Clash album. "Combat Rock” - "Rock the Casbah." "Should I Stay or Should I Go?", "Straight to Hell," and "Know Your Rights" coasted nicely, but didn't have the force of earlier numbers such as "Safe European Home," "Police On My Back." or "Somebody Got Murdered.” "Know Your Rights" was the most glaring comedown from the raging days of yore. At their best ("Clampdown," which they omitted Saturday and "Career Opportunities"), the politics form an intrinsic bond with the music. "Know Your Rights" seemed little more than a humanistic manifesto - lines such as "You have the right to free speech, as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it" set to a repeated jangling guitar line.
The Clash missed Topper Headon, their former drummer who left the group after a heroin bust shortly before the US tour began in June. Headon could make his drum kit sound like artillery, but he also had a sophisticated sense of rhythm that gave The Clash swing, as well as 4/4 rock power. Newly recruited drummer Terry Chimes. who actually was The Clash's original drummer in 1977, has a more pedantic style, not pushing the band into overdrive as much as keeping time.
Part of the problem. too, at Cape Cod. was the muddy sound. The seductive. soft jab of "Spanish Bombs" got tangled; ditto for the antidraft song "The Call Up” which became a straight-ahead banger. Bassist Paul Simonon's one vocal on "Guns of Brixton" didn't convey the moody defiance of the song. but a peppier pop tone.
If all this sounds dispiriting, well rest assured there were gripping moments - the swaying reggae groove of "One More Time, pleading vocals on "Somebody Got Murdered" (with accompanying video slides) and the storming "Garageland."
The changes are apparently not lost on The Clash. "1 feel alright about the shows," Mick Jones says in the current Musician magazine. "But I don't feel it's as much fun somehow. We used to kind of explode.” Jones hit the target dead center. Musically, The Clash are hitting the target around the outer edges.
Pulsallama. a group of nine woman, opened the show with percussive-heavy music that skittered by.
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Opening acts I seem to recall, but may not be 100% sure on this, the opening act(s) on some of the nights were Gang Green and/or Jerry's Kids - both Boston hardcore bands at the time. 007 also supported one of the gigs, as your site mentions. I remember the shows being on fire! Loud, fast, and everyone was dancing! Elvis Costello did indeed play with the Attractions at South Yarmouth, MA, Cape Cod Coliseum on the 22nd.
I went to them all I was looking, recently, at the summer 1982 listings for Cape Cod Coliseum (Aug 20th, etal)... I attended all the shows. I was working a summer college job, and it was just about the end of the summer, as Labor Day was closing in fast. There were 4 Clash shows in all, but recollection is they only took one night off (shows were Friday, Saturday, Monday - 20th, 21st, 23rd). In between, Elvis Costello brought his Imperial Bedroom tour through.... I seem to recall being at the venue 4 straight nights - no breaks.
Everyone at the concert was amped-up [An] example of big crowds flowing like water (and maybe almost killed me) occurred was at a general admission concert by The Clash in 1982. When I went to see The Clash at Cape Cod Coliseum in August of '82, their song "Rock the Casbah" was a top-ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Everyone at the concert was amped-up and extremely enthusiastic to see this chart-topping British band. From a crowd dynamics perspective, the problem with Cape Cod Coliseum (which closed in 1984) was that the owners had haphazardly converted an old ice skating rink into a concert venue without giving much thought to crowd safety. Because the concert was general admission with no assigned seats, everyone crammed onto the main floor, which became a mosh pit. When I went to this Clash concert as a teenager, I arrived early to be near the front of the crowd. Unfortunately, this meant I got wedged up against a concrete barrier near the stage and was pinned there just a few songs after the concert began. To this day, whenever I hear "Magnificent Seven," the unique drum beats of this song remind me of the rhythmic pulse I felt with each wave of exuberance from the crowd smashing my body against the concrete barrier. Each wave of collective movement from the sold-out crowd pushed my lower body against the waist-high blockade with more and more force in a way that felt like it might split me in half. Luckily, some security guards finally started pulling people up over the barrier before we were pulverized by the sea of humanity unwittingly crushing us in waves that started at the back of the arena.
This show stood out Sandra and I have been doing radio for a long time. We've both seen our share of concerts. One that stands out is back in 1983. The Clash were touring the states and stopped into the Cape Cod Coliseum. It was general admission and I remember trying to get as close to the stage as possible. I also remember it was a sweat pit AND they did play my favorite song at the time "The Magnificent Seven". That's all I remember. Many years later when I met Sandra we were talking about The Clash and both realized we were at the same show. WEIRD. The Cape Cod Coliseum is now a Christmas Tree Shop. WEIRDER. Not a lot of people can say they saw The Clash at a Christmas tree shop- Then there was The Clash at the Cape Cod Coliseum general admission, with 2,000 people jammed in front of the stage, sopping wet from the 110 degree temperature.
A show I will never forget From: richard haley I was there in 82. My friends truck broke down on the way there, so we jumped in the back of another truck at a rest stop and got a ride to the show. We arrived and everyone went there own way. I wound up on the floor up front. When the b52s came on stage, everyone started throwing their beers at them, they ran off stage. The lights came on and everyone up front who threw their cup moved back. I moved up and the lights went off and The Clash came on and what a night it was. Saw the concert and when over, I exited the Coliseum and found myself under a sign that said " Boston" 72 miles. I got a ride and we picked my friend up about 42 miles up the road and he remembered where his truck was and that was my night with the clash, a show I will never forget.
my 14yr old body was pushed into the plywood barrier I was at one of these concerts but donít remember which night. I was 14 years old. It was my second ever concert (Marshall Tucker Band the summer before). I went with my cousin who is two years older. My aunt dropped us off and picked us up.
swealtering, crushing crowd up front Ed: I stumbled across your site looking for info on the 1982 Orpheum show, which I had no recollection of. I went (one of) the Cape Cod show(s) [I didn't remember that there was more than one], and saw the Elvis Costello show the following night [22nd August]. I was 23, and my road trip was slightly more adult than yours. I had just gotten married on August 1, and a couple of people from work were interested in making the trip, including a girl who promised that we could all stay at a friend of hers house in Dennis. There were friends of friends, and I brought my wife, so when we all met up in the parking lot, most of us didn't know each other. One guy was wearing a camouflage t-shirt. When we entered the Coliseum, we were faced with the choice of the swealtering, crushing crowd up front or the complete lack of sight and sound down back. I looked up and saw what appeared to be a press box or something (for hockey games?) with very few people up there, and started scheming for a way to get up there. It turned out that the bouncers/security guys were all wearing camouflage t-shirts, so I convinced the guy with one in our party to try to lead us up. I told him to just bluff his way past anyone with "Vinny says it's okay for these folks to go up". The first security guy we encountered told him something like "who cares what Vinny say; if Peter didn't approve it, no way". My guy was ready to give up, but I told him he was nuts; let's just go another way and drop Peter's name, which worked like a charm. The 5 or 6 of us had plenty of space and air and a good view. The sound still sucked, but probably not as much as down on the floor. I remember that standing next to me was Crass, the personality from Y102 FM (WLYN which later became WFNX 101.7). On another occasion, I got her to get me into an English Beat show at the Channel---I don't remember if that was before or after The Clash; do you? Edward Onessimo - Milton, MA < >
hitchhiked down that afternoon The Clash | Cape Cod Coliseum, South Yarmouth, Massachusetts. August 1982 | Instagram Waynon13 - Holy goddamn shit, I was at this show! Won tickets from a radio station and hitchhiked down that afternoon. @this.is.radio.clash camo netting and caution tape, front row! Spent the night in (long gone) HoJo’s drinking coffee waiting for the bus home. Thanks for the memories.
One of the worst places on earth to see a band Liam 65 - Was at that show. 17. Walking back to a friend’s house with my pals we got followed. ‘What we wear is dangerous gear - it’ll get you picked on anywhere.’ For sure in Cape Cod in 1982 there were fellas who didn’t want ‘punkers’ in their neighborhood. The Cape Cod Coliseum was a hell hole and one of the worst places on earth to see a band. Great show though!
A concrete arena that most often sounded like you were in a cement mixer Punk Rock Graveyard | Facebook “This is at the Cape Cod Colisuem, a concrete arena that most often sounded like you were in a cement mixer. I rode to the show with WBCN Program Director Oedipus, so we were ushered backstage right away. It was the third time I’d been backstage with the Clash, so the vibe was intimate, as you can see by this shot of Mick Jones and his then girlfriend.”~ Michael Grecco Gary Tice - I saw them at the Cape cod coliseum. Warm up act Banana Rama Bill Weidacher - I was there as well! Definitely 1982. Elvis Costello played the night before or the night after. Can’t recall the order Scott J Gagnon - I was at that show. Sweltering hot box cinder block palace of a deafening concert. Loved every minute of it |
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From Joe's setlist taped to his guitar
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ARTICLES, POSTERS, CLIPPINGS ... A collection of A collection of articles, interviews, memorabilia from the tour and the period around the tour, August to New Year 1982.
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VIDEO – 1 Sept / Joe, Paul Simonon int, PIer 84 on CBS New York News
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