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Civic Centre, Providence RI

The greatest concert I have ever seen

I found your website and it is great.

I have to say 2 things about the 1982 tour. I was at the Sept. 7, 1982 show at the Orpheum and I actually agreed with the Globe review -- I thought they were tired and didn't have the same energy as other times I saw the Clash. 

I had just seen them August 28 in Providence and that was, and still is, the greatest show I have ever seen (beating an amazing show at Bond's NYC). 

They had the crowd of 10,000 as one and played with such energy it was amazing. 

I wish somebody else had written down and posted the set list.My roomate at the time wasn't into the Clash and I convinced him to go to the Orpheum show. 

We scalped some dance floor tix for face value (to this day, I have no clue how we got the best tix in the theatre by just showing up and lucking into somebody selling), so we were 3rd standing row from the band.  Seemed evident early on that they were tired (at the time I commented to my roomate that they seemed drunk or wasted) and it wasn't the same energy level. 

The confrontation between Strummer and the stage jumper was unnerving and seemed to further sap the bands spirit.  Really, in my opinion, the Boston Globe reviewer was correct.  Sadly, that was my last Clash concert, but, in my mind, the Providence show was really the last time I saw the real Clash, the only band that mattered. Bob R - Nov 2008 < >

The entire show just rocked

rydertix

They had the crowd in their hand and even with Terry as the drummer the entire show just rocked. Saw them in Boston a few weeks later and it was one of the worst concerts ever, despite the fact that it turned up on their live CD. They were too drugged up and it didn't match the intensity of Providence, which was even better than the Bonds NYC show I saw. 

.... (Boston) I saw the earlier this tour (and on other tours) and the Providence show kicked ass. Convinced my roomate to go to this show and we scalped dancefloor tickets for face and thought we were in for a treat. We both thought that the band was too drugged out and that the show was not great. It's shown up in bootlegs and a few songs from that (or the next) night on their live CD but in person, 10 feet from the stage, it wasn't a great concert. I've said for many years that my best concert of all time, out of the huge number I've seen, was the Clash and the worst concert, a few weeks later at the Orpheum, was also the Clash.

I jumped on stage at the beginning of Garageland and sang half the song

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Setlist is from the Aug 29 issue of the Providence Journal.

The reviewer thought the band was fantastic and apparently the sold-out crowd did too. The reviewer said that they played 23 songs including two three-song encores.

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Intro London Calling Clash City Rockers Know Your Rights Police and Thieves The Guns of Brixton Police on My Back Rock the Casbah English Civil War Bankrobber The Magnificent Seven Train in Vain This Is Radio Clash Wrong Emboyo The Call Up Somebody Got Murdered Brand New Cadillac I Fought the Law encore: Armigedeon Time Should I Stay or Should I Go Complete Control encore 2: Straight to Hell Pressure Drop Garageland