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timbernardis
He's been gone how long now? Cancer? Sure way too young.

Before the first Bay Area appearance of the Clash when i was a student at Berkeley, I happened upon him and the drummer (? name?)

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Javadave
Somebody will perform Rock The Casbah, perhaps DJ Scratchy?

Bob Weir has sung Train In Vain with Furthur, but is more likely to reprise his collaboration with Jesse Malin on Death And Glory. Here is the version they performed at Weir’s TRI Studios in 2015:

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Joe was a good man. I got to meet him a couple of months before his passing when the Mescaleros did an instore performance at the Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.

After the show they queued the crowd back up outside and Joe patiently greeted one and all and signed various things. People had brought old albums, photos and framed magazine covers. I had just found out about the show that afternoon and hadn’t thought to bring anything for him to sign.

While waiting in line, I thumbed through a copy of that days L.A. Times, as I recalled that the band had chosen the name The Clash because it was the word they most often saw in the papers. No luck finding a headline with “clash” in it, but there was a photo of a large group of refugees in Kashmir walking down a road carrying their worldly possessions on their heads. I wrote some lyrics from “Something About England” and “Rock The Casbah” over the photo, “They say the immigrants steal the hubcaps of respected gentlemen...but...Shareef don’t like it!!!”, with a circle around the A in “Shareef”, and asked Joe if he would mind signing it. He looked at it for a moment and said, “that’s that trouble they’re having in Kashmir, eh?”, and then he signed it.

It was hard to comprehend he was gone a few short months later. He had seemed so at peace with himself, and the Mescaleros had sounded great and put on a memorable performance. It felt like he was just getting started again.

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timbernardis
He's been gone how long now? Cancer? Sure way too young.

Before the first Bay Area appearance of the Clash when i was a student at Berkeley, I happened upon him and the drummer (? name?)

Nicky (Topper) Headon

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jbwelda
The Clash stayed at my friends' squat sort of thing in Sacramento for a day or two, the Stucco Factory it was called before and after their local performance and a couple in San Francisco. I was asked to assemble a reggae tape for them to play before their performances and Mikey Dread was pretty impressed with it he said. I went over there after their performance at Memorial Auditorium and hung out for a while. I know Strummer and Simenon were there but dont know about Mick Jones, didnt see him. and Topper was out scoring junk apparently. But I had a good talk with Strummer and Mikey Dread that evening. Joe was supposed to come by my radio show the next day but he never made it. Sure wish he had, but he was being pulled in ten directions it seemed so it was understandable he did not.



jb