Out of Control Tour '84
updated 2 Sept 2016 with better audio information
updated June 2021 added photo
Audio 1 -
good sound - Sound 3.5 - 1hr 40mins - 1st Gen - 30 tracks
suffers no inherent copying problems and is without distortion of any kind.
Guns of Brixton
A good audience recording of the complete gig with only a small edit at the beginning of Career Opportunities. The only other notable point is Nick Sheppard doing the Should I Stay or Should I Go vocals.
All the instrumentation and can be heard, which is a good starting point, however as expected from an audience tape it is lacking full pro width and clarity and has a fraction of distance. But this master/1st gen came from a private collector who had bought out an the old time taper who did it, and as
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A packed enthusiastic crowd at Liverpool extend the success of this tour with another great show. The band would play 30 tracks tonight. A long set but with no surprises and all though its a fine performance it is not as fired up as earlier performances in February. Check out Glasgow Barrowlands and Manchester Apollo for better sound and slightly better performances.
The tight slope down to withing inches of the band has Joe appealing for some ease of congestion at the front from the packed crowd after just two songs as one guy has apparently been crushed according to Joe.
Highlights include Know Your Rights and White Man in Hammersmith Palais where Joe changes the words to the section wearing Burton suits, to wearing natty dreadlocks and funny hats to have a go at his pet hate at the time, Boy George.
Someone throws an Arab slipper ot the band during Rock the Casbah. Joe in good humour laughingly brings to everyones attention when the band returns for the first encore.
Paul opens now, as on the rest of the tour, Guns of Brixton with his solo mouth organ intro. Joe launchs into a passionate and more constrained Ammunition.
This is followed by a Clash run though of regular songs. Joe follows the oldies deliversing a very enthusiatic Three Card Trick, Janie Jones and end of set I Fought the Law.
The band open with We are the Clash, and in keeping with the good atmospshere Joe mis-introduces Tommy Gun and goes energetically into Complete Control. The crowd really rise to English Civil War after Joe has announced the winner of the breakdance competition, is he taking the piss or what?
The band seem to be going strong and fire out Brand New Cadilac before a slightly more funky Armagideon Time. Nick sings Should I Stay which is followed by a tape turnover which does not affect the tracks.
Garageland's opening couple of seconds has some minor tape problems and that as per ends that segue.
The band come out for a second encore. Joe appeals for members of the Kop (Liverpool's famous 'singing' end in football) as he leads the audience into Bankrobber. A slower tired Joe finishes with Spanish Bombs and the usual rousing finale White Riot.
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Joe Strummer Interview Radio Stockholm,
1 January1984
Joe Strummer Interview Ltd Edition picture disk
Interview with Joe Strummer and The Clash in Norway in 1984.
The Clash - Italy 1984 interview
Mister Fantasy - Italian TV - RaiUno
Broadcast 22 March
Joe Strummer of The Clash interviewed backstage pre show Milan Italy 1984. Taken from "Mister Fantasy. This is a very rare item. I had previously uploaded this a few years ago, but there was an audio fault and it always annoyed me, so I deleted the older version and uploaded this new one with the audio sorted. Taken from BASF L-750 Betamax tape archive number #080 digital archive #4018
Clash - 1984 Milan Italy News Show interview
Joe Strummer and The Clash interviewed pre show Milan Italy February 1984. This is a very rare item. I had previously uploaded this a few years ago, but there was an audio fault and it always annoyed me, so I deleted the older version and uploaded this new one with the audio sorted. Taken from BASF L-750 Betamax tape archive number #080 digital archive #4018
The Clash - "Jt. 13th" Interview (France) '84
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A longer version (below) is on Youtube but it is inaccesssible from the UK?
Joe Strummer interviewed by Lisa Robinson for WNYC?
This 2-part interview presents polar extremes of Joe Strummer. The first part most likely takes place in late 1983, after Mick Jones left the band but before the new Clash line-up started touring together. The majority of this segment involves Strummer heatedly discussing all the reasons Jones was fired. He then goes on to talk animatedly about the new incarnation of the band and how everyone in America is on drugs.
In the second part of the interview, recorded in the beginning of 1984, Strummer sounds melancholy and exhausted. However, with the departure of Mick Jones from The Clash being old news by this point, Lisa Robinson is able to steer the questioning towards what Strummer makes of performing, success, and his music.
Part 1
00:00 Why Mick was fired: emotional blackmail
01:15 Bitterness
01:56 Success vs. personal problems
02:48 Mick's vision for the band / guitar synth
03:59 Who/what constitutes The Clash
06:10 Making a not-so-great Clash album: Combat Rock
07:05 Glyn Johns saves Combat Rock (as per Joe Strummer)
07:55 Glyn Johns ruins Combat Rock (as per Mick Jones)
08:35 Forcing Mick Jones to sing "Should I Stay or Should I Go?"
10:22 An honorable way for a band to go out
11:00 The two new guitarists (Vince White, Nick Sheppard)
11:39 Hoping to be possessed
12:40 A divorced writing partnership with Mick / "Death is a Star"
14:02 Writing with Paul Simonon / road-testing new songs
14:55 Pete Howard on drums
15:07 Recording a new album
15:49 The US Festival
16:46 Everybody in America is on drugs
18:29 [phone]: Mick Jones' response
Part 2
00:00 Other aspirations / graphic artist
00:51 Growing up with a diplomat father
01:57 A feeling of homelessness
02:29 Slagged for being middle-class
02:59 The reaction in Britain to the disbanding of The Clash
03:45 Taking some criticisms to heart
04:25 Not enjoying playing in stadiums
05:45 Crowd behavior / whose fault
07:13 The ideal performing situation
07:49 Pros and cons for The Clash getting bigger
08:30 Avoiding the problems of The Who
09:09 The commercial success of Combat Rock
10:48 [A false start]
11:07 Joe's opinion of The Clash's music
12:11 Musical influences
12:45 The blues boom of the 60's in Britain
15:05 Re-selling R&B to the U.S.
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