1979 Pearl Harbour Tour

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Record Mirror archive 1955-1981
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Fanzines: Great Collection
Great collection of scanned fanzines from the 1970s and 1980s

February 17th, 1979. The Clash's 'Pearl Harbour '79' Tour of North America review by Sylvie Simmons and Pics by Bob Gruen. "For the first time in the US I could see the relevance of pogoing"

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Last night I attended the Target Video show at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley (http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/film/FN17017). There was a lot of great footage from the '70s & early '80s (Dead Kennedys, Flipper, Black Flag, X, The Nuns, Avengers, The Mutants, Bush Tetras, Siouxsie & The Banshees, etc.), most of which I had never seen before. Target was selling t-shirts (I bought one) in the lobby, and on the back of the t-shirt are logos of bands Target filmed, including The Clash.

I asked Target Video's Joe Rees when and where he filmed The Clash. He replied: a couple of shows, including Geary Temple in San Francisco '79 and at the Target studio on Van Ness. I asked him if the Geary Temple footage was ever released on video in the early '80s, and he said "yes," but I've never heard of that release. One would think it would've showed up on bootleg videos/DVDs, on YouTube, etc., and also Graham doesn't mention the existence of the footage on BMC. It must've been available for a very limited time in '84 when Target Video started releasing videos. Anyway, I told Joe that I hope that Target Video's footage of The Clash will be released on DVD.

Target Video's site: http://www.targetvideo.net
Target Video's MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/targetvideo

Tora! Tora! Clash!

US Tour dates

Clash: many sell-outs but no permits

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Sounds US Tour Review

Village Voice
The Clash See America Second Most Intense Rock Band Ever
R Christagau

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Dolly Parton Impersonators

Tour Photos - archive PDF

More Tour photos here

London Evening News

6 Jan 1979 General tat

Clash, British punk group, not so angry on latest album

The Baltimore Sun
Sun Jan 28

Rock Talk
Lisa Robinson

Edmonton Journal
Fri Feb 16 1979

The Clash In L.A.: Just the Best

LA Weekly
Thu Feb 22

The Clash – punk band and pround of it

Green Bay Press Gazette
Sun Mar 4 1979

North East Bay Independent and Gazette Fri Feb 16 1979

British Groups Enliven Rock Music Tradition

Rutland Daily Herald
Sun Jan 14 1979

The Baltimore Sun – Sun Feb 25 1979

Lousy Lyrics clash and sound on latest new wave success

The Gazette
Sat Feb 3 1979

'Secret' history of The Clash

penned by Oberlin College assistant dean

Updated Jan 12, 2019; Posted Feb 04, 2015

Doane also is the author of "Stealing All Transmissions: A Secret History of the Clash." The English punk band -- the classic lineup includes Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Nicky "Topper" Headon -- became widely known as "The Only Band That Matters" in the 1980s, influenced a generation of musicians who followed and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. Doane recently gave a talk on his book at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Archive. Doane spoke with Plain Dealer reporter Michael Heaton. ... more

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Clash Crests on New Wave Punk Wave
Los Angeles Times 1/20/79

Even with Elvis Costello's five previously announced concerts, February promised to be an exciting period for rock in Southern California. But now we can look forward to a bonus: The Clash has just been signed for a Feb. 9 appearance at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.

Tickets for the Clash concert - part of the English band's first U.S. tour - will go on sale Monday. Tickets also go on sale that day for two of Costello's shows: Feb. 14 at the Long Beach Arena and Feb 18 at San Diego's Fox Theater.

Clash: New Import for Rockers – The Los Angeles Times – Fri Feb 2

Active or passive: two rock voices

The Los Angeles Times
Sun Feb 4 1979

Potenet Punk: The Clash Gives 'Em Enought Rope –
The Miami Herald – Sun Jan 21 1979

Give 'Em Eought Rope review

The Ottawa Citizen
Fri Feb 9 1979

Q MAG Pearl
The Clash's First Amercian Tour

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Intl Musician mag Mick guitars

Melody Maker
White House Door - On the road with the Clash

The Ottawa Citizen
Fri Feb 9 1979

A Garbled Account of the Clash US Tour by Joe Strummer

NME

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Best 130 (Mai 79 Topper Headon)

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Les InRocks99

MM Pearlman Interview

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Clash City Talkers: New York Meets Jones And Co.

Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, June 1979

There's nothing quite as frustrating to watch as the hypocrisy of press, radio, and record companies rushing to get behind some new band that has successfully survived their initial indifference and become some sort of hot property.

The Clash, who couldn't get a record released in America until nearly two years after their first LP was unanimously acclaimed by the English press, suddenly became the darlings of the season when they toured here in February.

MM Pearlman Interview

1979 02 17 – SOUNDS The Clash In America – Sylvie Simmonds

"SO YOU think we lost the battle then go home and weep about it. Sometimes you ve got to wake up in the morning and think, Fuck it youre going to win the battle. Joe Strummer.

THERE WERE no riots, no outraged citizens, no glaring headlines when Pearl Harbour 79 came to an old elegant building in downtown Vancouver last week. The only report in the newspaper? s music section was that the local symphony orchestra had gone on strike. The Clash? s first American tour is being felt by the press as the stimulating aftershock of the Pistols US invasion a year ago or not at all. ...

Garry Bushells USA Tour Notes
Sounds February 1979

THE CLEANCUT cuddly Clash continue their perillous ' assault on the North Americansub-continent with typkal clearheaded foresight.

Meaning they were actually granted work permits a mere 24 flours before their first single gig in Vancouver last Wednesday, despite losing vast quantities of gear to Canadian custom officials who stripped them of studded bracelets, belts and knives which were taken 'downtown'for destruction.