It does'nt suprise me one bit that Strummer disliked 'White Riot'. I've heard artists comment negatively about some of their own material on countless occasions. Paul Weller once stated that some of the earlier songs he wrote for The Jam were an embaressment to him and regretted ever having wrote them at all.
Whatever Strummers reasons were (embaressment/sick of hearing or peforming it/or just grew to hate it) it still remains for many fans... a firm Clash favourite.

Should I Stay Or Should I Go...has to be one of the best intro's ever...

So then

Sandinistas

*drums fingers*

Crap...with decent moments...but well worth the money...your right!!

i dont have it, but it sounds really interesting after reading more about it here :http://www.inkblotmagazine.com/rev-a...Sandinista.htm

id have to pick it up if i see it, mainly because its 2 1/2 hours of the clash doing alot of experimental type stuff.

As much as I like the Clash, songs like Rock the Casbah and Should I Stay Or Should I Go make me ill.

So, what about the Mescaleros? Pretty neat, huh?

Yeah...seen them a couple of times...the last being only months before Strummers death at the Academy,Manchester.

Give it a go Fenix...maybe has some ideas in there, for that band yours :)

youd be surprised where alot of my bands sound comes from; everything from Phish, to Canibal Corpse, to Johnny Cash, to Three Six Mafia...its all thrown in our music somehow.

There`s a link for this at the top of the page amongst the typical ads for Clash stuff

http://iananthony.com/

Surreal indeed

"Rotten To The Core"

Have you Realised that Rock Stars
Always seem to lie so much?
John Lydon once said he cared
But he never really gave a ****
Said he'd use the money he made
So that people would have somewhere to go
But now he lives in the USA
and Snorts Coke after the Show.

Why is it that Rock Stars
Always seem to lie so much?
Joe Strummer once said he cared,
but he never really gave a ****
Said he'd use the money he made
To set up a radio station to make the
Airwaves full of something more than ****
Have you noticed we're still Waiting?

You must realise that Rock Stars
Always seem to lie so much
Some will always tell you that they care,
But they don't really give a ****,
Still you suckers don't ever learn
That rock stars deal in money not truth
It's good Buisiness to exploit you
Just look at Lydon or Strummer for Proof.


....rudi peni if you wondered