Joe Strummer 1952-2002

[cherish44]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTnijX0TH-w

Can't believe it's been 7 years

[abq e streeter]

1. I was waiting till it was Dec. 22nd here, but already past midnight in Ill.

doesn't matter obviously. Just another person that misses Joe something awful ... the only "celebrity" for whom I actually cried when I heard they died. I never saw The Clash but am eternally grateful that I saw Joe and The Mescaleros on July 2nd 1999 at The Metro on Clark street in Chicago. ( I know the date because the ticket stub is attached to my refrigerator by a magnet). It was a powerful , magnificent show. About half Mescaleros songs and half Clash songs. He started AND ended the night with London Calling. Great versions of Bank Robber and Tommy Gun too.

Here's a poem I found by a guy named Dave Lordan


Tribute To Joe Strummer

Your words were boots Joe, boots in Lewisham
When black and white and yellow riot put down the Nazi scum,
And in Trafalgar Square in ninety-one
When the fury of our rainbow class put Thatcher on the run
Your words were firing like a gun Joe, firing like a gun.

I heard your booming words echo
Through the streets of Prague-
when we shut the World Bank down
And you were roaring vengeance in Genoa
when we had to fight through gas
and bullets just to hold our ground
And when the many-headed future met in Florence
Everyone knew your name Joe
Your songs were all around.-

And when the threw me in a cell Joe
I sang straight to hell Joe
And when they stood me up in court Joe
I hummed the Brixton guns Joe

Oh Joe! when you got up to sing
It was a fist in a copper's face
It was a pitchfork in a landlord's neck
It was a bullet in a contra's gut
It was an arrow in the eye of a general
It was a kick in the balls for the rich.
It was everything good Joe
It was everything good

And when us Zombies and us Rastas
and us Punks and Workers win
You will be singing in our blood Joe
You will be dancing like speed in our veins

Dave Lordan ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU1stt0okdM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh0orhvcxBY