This video has only been viewed 114,578 times?? This video should be viewed by anyone that considers themselves any kind of a rock fan... or even a semi-serious music fan. In my humble O, some of the best 6 minutes of rock video of all time.....
@rollinstrummin I highly doubt the Clash would censor themselves. If you watch more of their live videos you'll see that it's VERY common for Joe to "fuck up the lyrics" lol. I'm actually more surprised when he gets the lyrics right!
@strummeresque Ahhh - there's another video where Joe introduces a Gallagher, I could only think of the brothers from Oasis but I never saw the guy...I never saw them use keyboards on stage except this vid. Excellent user name BTW : )
@afzoomie67 I've been struck by that too, it may be because, when you eliminate visual distractions your ability to concentrate on audio is multiplied. Other musicians would know the likely answer. He didn't do it until a certain point in his career....
Wow, they had it all. They were the most popular band in the world, had hit records, incredible talent, and it was all fuckin wasted because of Topper's stupid fucking addiction, Mick being arrogant, and not punctual, and That fucker Bernie Rhoads convincing Joe and Paul to boot him. Bernie s a waste of skin.
@PBANDSNOW Hey! You summed it up, the whole tragic trajectory I guess. Who is Bernie Rhoads, if you don't mind me not researching it? And do you know what happened to Paul?
@chrstnlmllr51 Bernie Rhoads was The Clash’s original manager. He was kicked out in 1978, but when the band came into hard times, they rehired him. He always hated Mick, so he convinced Joe to boot him. He then formed Big Audio Dynamite, and Paul stayed with Joe until the end.
@PBANDSNOW Hey, thanks for schooling me with your replies to my endless questions.... you seem to have a vast knowledge of all things Clash and, more important, to be able to analyze and synthesize all the pieces to get to the underlying truth. I subscribed to your channel. Now that I've buttered you up, another question...what the heck happened to Paul Simonon and his fantastic bass lines?
@chrstnlmllr51 Haha, thank you. Yes, I have read every book, seen every documentary. I imagine me teaching this to a class! As to what happened to Paul, Im not quite sure what you mean, but right now hes a member of the Gorillaz touring band with Mick.
Wow. While the show itself was mediocre, "Fridays" in terms of music was, act for act, probably the greatest show in the history of American television. Sure, Ed Sullivan, etc., but for a show with such a short run, Fridays hit it out of the park almost every week. These videos are a treasure.
My first exposure to the mighty Clash. I was a senior in high school when I saw this in '80; went & bought the album the next day. What stuck in my mind was all the spit flying out of Strummer's mouth as he was singing. A life-changing time...
I could name 10 bands better than The Clash, but they're still better than anything. Wrap your head around that! We had the best of the best time musically in the 80's. There's lots of good music from the 50's 60's 90's but to live thru the 80's was a privilege. Imagin being in a 'mosh pit' when it was a slam pit, tripping and falling down and having 10 sets of hands grab you and put you to your feet. You couldn't hit the ground if you tried. R.I.P. Fenders Ballroom L.B., Joe, and the 80's.
I could name 10 bands better than The Clash, but they're still better than anything. Wrap your head around that! We had the best of the best time musically in the 80's. There's lots of good music from the 50's 60's 90's but to live thru the 80's was a privilege. Imagin being in a 'mosh pit' when it was a slam pit, tripping and falling down and having 10 sets of hands grab you and put you to your feet. You couldn't hit the ground if you tried. R.I.P. Fenders Ballroom L.B., Joe, and the 80's
If Joe Strummer was still alive The Clash would be headlining tours as big as the Rolling Stones. There was still a lot left for The Clash to reunite and accomplish. They were far more than just a punk or political statement. They wrote some of the greatest music ever........
@Paneeks1960 I can't tell whether they would or wouldn't but who wants to go to a big stadium and see a band like THE CLASH...when you have U2 doing it...and it sucks...Stadium rock is what killed THE CLASH. They got too big and they forgot to tlk to each other - on stage they couldn;t do jogging like JAGGER so they hit the buffers. Glasto OK ...Actually SHEA killed off the BEATLES live, it killed THE CLASH 2 - that's one hell of a comparison aha ahah
@MsGORGONS Excellent point. I did see both nights when the Clash played with The Who at Shea back in 1982 and the planes going over the stadium was really annoying during the Clash sets. I had seen them play smaller venues before that and I enjoyed the smaller halls much better. I really do not think that the stadium killed the bands. It was the music companies/management that they worked for who you could hold blame for the stadium tours. I like what you said though.
To some, the clash where at there heights in the 70s. I was there through the 70s and then through the 80s and like them best in the 80s. Every one has there own ideas
We started MTV and now it sucks as one would say sold out
We in the 80s grew up in a cool ass time and would go down to the video arcade stores and play games for hours all lit up and wearing our vans and fiveo1s
n not sure they rated Beatles much...more KEITH attitudes in Micks' but by 76 STONES = Useless druggies + oldFrenchChateau speculatorz. Joe closeted Lennon fan. Gustave Simenon defo BLUEBEAT fan and TOPPER best drummer of this decade...listened to soul/jazz/rnb worked with London Philarmonicz
Taped this my self back when, still have it. What a night. I remember my mate and I standing up in apt. to watch when they came on. His brother said " Why, what is this, the national anthem ?" Pretty close to it.
I used to love staying up to watch Fridays. I was only 12 but I loved how different it was! I remember this! The first time I had ever seen the Clash! I was hooked!
Oi! queenie!! its just rock and roll, thats what punk did, gave music back to young inspirational musicians, pushed a few dead heads off the other end. Maybe you will go without giving the world the benifit of your musical genius or maybe you will just fuck off like the sad loser you are. by the late seventies youre arse was being fucked all over town no doubt!
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Underneath all that washed out chorus & cockney accents, anyone with an IQ over 80 can tell these guys suck. By the late seventies, the music industry found their commercial "punk" band--(ripoff record deal and all & all you lemmings love it!!!) One down, three to go.
@888zzz I could think of a few bands better than The Clash, and I could think of MANY songs better than London Calling, including almost every song on that album, and half of the ones from their debut.
Imo London Calling (song) is massively overrated within their discography.
@SirPwn4lot I think it's just the feel that it conveys...the aura of that song that people like. I like it...I mean what a brilliant number...on the other hand it took me 12 years to like Stand by me...I didn't like its disco beat at first
@888zzz For their time and at their peak there was nobody close. The Clash, whose politics were worn on their sleeve, have done something few political bands have done or can do. They haven't aged, even though their politics have. And that's no easy feat. It's because The Clash really were "The only band that matters!"
I remember those sketches. I watched this show specifically for the bands. I remember the Clash playing on this show when it was first broadcast--I was shaking I was so excited. I was 15. The Jam played shortly there after and were amazing...except I never listen to the Jam anymore...
this was during the recording of Sandinista!.it says it in 'Passion is a fashion'.it was one of only a handful of gigs they did during that time to keep them in the public eye
The night this aired I was working here in Milwaukee as a stage hand at the now defunct Palms club doing the load in and out for The Tourists (Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox) The crowd was thin and I was sitting backstage drinking a beer with Dave and Annie, and they said the low attendance was because it was the Clash's american telly debut!
But this is from the comedy sketch called show "Fridays" on ABC that lasted in the USA from 1980-1982. I saw this when I was 12. And it was aired on April-25-1980, not 1982. This was my first time seeing The Clash on TV and it is brilliant! They let them do 4 songs! (Which not even Sat. Night Live would let anyone dotoday or back then).
Look at the set list, Joe Strummer's hair and espescially the dude playing organ. Its all from their 1980 US tour as they didn't work in any of the finer points from Combat Rock, Joe Strummer isn't sporting his travis bickle Hairdo and the organist only went along with them on their 1980 US and UK Tour.
It may have been rebroadcast in 1982, but it originally aired in 1980. I graduated from HS in 1979 and I saw this during my freshman year at UT Austin.
uhm... actually joe messed pretty often with lyrics, and in 79 he changed some lyrics of londo calling to some unwritten lyrics, and if you ask from me, its kinda skill that you just can throw lyrics live...
This video has only been viewed 114,578 times?? This video should be viewed by anyone that considers themselves any kind of a rock fan... or even a semi-serious music fan. In my humble O, some of the best 6 minutes of rock video of all time.....
hinkau 9 hours ago
Mick Jones looks like Prince in the thumbnail for this video. LOL
iwantcompletecontrol 1 month ago
poor old Mick is an awesome guitarist..but he had some dubious sartorial moments in comparison ...pimp chain & suit...:-(
jaytv777 1 month ago
@jaytv777 That's a Zoot Suit, circa 1940s...
kmtown043 1 month ago
I loved "Fridays". It was a great show.
casestudyification 2 months ago
Beatlemania was a musical on broadway at the time.
cookieman38111 2 months ago
PHONEY BEATLEMANIA? ha ha ha ha ha
pbrick6301 3 months ago
@pbrick6301 It was phoney, what was real about it? They were the first pop sellouts, they started the cliche/
PBANDSNOW 3 months ago
@PBANDSNOW yeah but lots of ppl liked their songs including Mick and Joe
one1950smovie 17 hours ago
he fucked up the lyrics
Tomataduplenty1 3 months ago
@Tomataduplenty1 The lyric is "see we ain't got no highs, Except for that one with the yellowy eyes" Maybe he didn't fuck up, but was censored?
rollinstrummin 3 months ago
@rollinstrummin I highly doubt the Clash would censor themselves. If you watch more of their live videos you'll see that it's VERY common for Joe to "fuck up the lyrics" lol. I'm actually more surprised when he gets the lyrics right!
iwantcompletecontrol 1 month ago
@Tomataduplenty1 grow up
5teveJ52 2 weeks ago
he fucked up the lyrics
Tomataduplenty1 3 months ago
Watched this live and had my cassette recorder pressed up to the TV speaker! Great to see it again! Thanks for posting!!!
BrianGriffin1 4 months ago in playlist More videos from spikepriggen
Correction - Jerry Sienfeld and Dave Grohl looks like Mick Jones.
yolaholga 5 months ago 3
I love the Who. I love the Stones. I love Bruce.
The fucking Clash were the greatest live band ever.
cabronte 6 months ago 2
What kind of guitar is Joe using?
TheGhostHunterVideos 7 months ago
@TheGhostHunterVideos Fender Telecaster. I think he put some stickers on top of it im not not wrong. Joe always uses Teles for live
crimson1d 6 months ago
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICK!!!
PBANDSNOW 7 months ago
ONLY BAND THAT MATTERS
nycbren64 8 months ago 3
@nycbren64 yeah, STILL THE ONLY BAND THAT MATTERS
nimatek667 7 months ago in playlist clashingpinkvelvets
HOLY SHIT!!!
sloanscreen45 8 months ago 3
I remember watching this when it first aired.
privettricker 8 months ago
Feckin groyt bend.
lowlypeasant 9 months ago 10
The four songs they played for this show, they really kicked ass. They seemed well-rested for this and excited about it.
Technosphile 9 months ago
who is on keyboards? on the left of the stage
manuls24 10 months ago
@manuls24 Eye believe that is Mickey Gallagher, from the late Ian Dury's Blockheads. Like a million per cent sure.
strummeresque 8 months ago 3
@strummeresque Ahhh - there's another video where Joe introduces a Gallagher, I could only think of the brothers from Oasis but I never saw the guy...I never saw them use keyboards on stage except this vid. Excellent user name BTW : )
chrstnlmllr51 6 months ago
why does Joe sing with his eyes closed?
afzoomie67 10 months ago
@afzoomie67 I've been struck by that too, it may be because, when you eliminate visual distractions your ability to concentrate on audio is multiplied. Other musicians would know the likely answer. He didn't do it until a certain point in his career....
chrstnlmllr51 6 months ago
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Yes nothing but Great!
lyncolnz 10 months ago
Thanks for having the balls "Fridays"! I watched that show religiously when I was growing up, but I never saw The Clash on there!
patinovideo 10 months ago
i love train in vain live. so much quicker and more raw than the studio version
coolbean08 11 months ago
Wow, they had it all. They were the most popular band in the world, had hit records, incredible talent, and it was all fuckin wasted because of Topper's stupid fucking addiction, Mick being arrogant, and not punctual, and That fucker Bernie Rhoads convincing Joe and Paul to boot him. Bernie s a waste of skin.
PBANDSNOW 11 months ago
@PBANDSNOW Hey! You summed it up, the whole tragic trajectory I guess. Who is Bernie Rhoads, if you don't mind me not researching it? And do you know what happened to Paul?
chrstnlmllr51 6 months ago
@chrstnlmllr51 Bernie Rhoads was The Clash’s original manager. He was kicked out in 1978, but when the band came into hard times, they rehired him. He always hated Mick, so he convinced Joe to boot him. He then formed Big Audio Dynamite, and Paul stayed with Joe until the end.
PBANDSNOW 6 months ago
@PBANDSNOW Hey, thanks for schooling me with your replies to my endless questions.... you seem to have a vast knowledge of all things Clash and, more important, to be able to analyze and synthesize all the pieces to get to the underlying truth. I subscribed to your channel. Now that I've buttered you up, another question...what the heck happened to Paul Simonon and his fantastic bass lines?
chrstnlmllr51 6 months ago
@chrstnlmllr51 Haha, thank you. Yes, I have read every book, seen every documentary. I imagine me teaching this to a class! As to what happened to Paul, Im not quite sure what you mean, but right now hes a member of the Gorillaz touring band with Mick.
PBANDSNOW 6 months ago
Man, this was a bunch of guys who were on top of their game.
DevoDevoT 1 year ago
soundman blows
blueridger28 1 year ago
jerry seinfeld or mick jones?!!!!!!
sweet footage.
goetia13 1 year ago
That's an awesome live version of London calling
ojosdeweber 1 year ago
this is heavy, this is rock and roll, this is funk, this is ska, this is groovy this is reggae, this is ska, this is pop, this is punk rock
this is the one and only THE CLASH!.
germanasselborn 1 year ago 2
@germanasselborn You said it. These guys did it all and they did it well.
governorgilf 10 months ago
where the hell did mick get that horrid zoot suit ? funny as hell is that. i miss joe stummer. he was the best.
TheSandsie13 1 year ago
@TheSandsie13 Mick loved those, there hilarious
PBANDSNOW 11 months ago
@PBANDSNOW Yeah, Mick missed the boat on looking cool like Joe and Paul, poor guy. This suit is the worst of many.
chrstnlmllr51 6 months ago
Wow. While the show itself was mediocre, "Fridays" in terms of music was, act for act, probably the greatest show in the history of American television. Sure, Ed Sullivan, etc., but for a show with such a short run, Fridays hit it out of the park almost every week. These videos are a treasure.
LeftCoastGator 1 year ago
@LeftCoastGator
Word....as far as musical guests went, they whipped 'SNL' like a rented mule.
Rottenhaus 1 year ago
@Rottenhaus
I was thinking a "government mule", but a rented mule will work too.
n8tureboy 1 year ago
My first exposure to the mighty Clash. I was a senior in high school when I saw this in '80; went & bought the album the next day. What stuck in my mind was all the spit flying out of Strummer's mouth as he was singing. A life-changing time...
notaphaser 1 year ago
Mickey Gallagher at the keys ladies and gentlemen
MsGORGONS 1 year ago
Why are there kids in a Fridays audience?
paulj0557 1 year ago
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I could name 10 bands better than The Clash, but they're still better than anything. Wrap your head around that! We had the best of the best time musically in the 80's. There's lots of good music from the 50's 60's 90's but to live thru the 80's was a privilege. Imagin being in a 'mosh pit' when it was a slam pit, tripping and falling down and having 10 sets of hands grab you and put you to your feet. You couldn't hit the ground if you tried. R.I.P. Fenders Ballroom L.B., Joe, and the 80's.
vegasdave901901 1 year ago
I could name 10 bands better than The Clash, but they're still better than anything. Wrap your head around that! We had the best of the best time musically in the 80's. There's lots of good music from the 50's 60's 90's but to live thru the 80's was a privilege. Imagin being in a 'mosh pit' when it was a slam pit, tripping and falling down and having 10 sets of hands grab you and put you to your feet. You couldn't hit the ground if you tried. R.I.P. Fenders Ballroom L.B., Joe, and the 80's
vegasdave901901 1 year ago
these guys are my idols
RockinBlues4 1 year ago
I see Mickey Gallagher from the Blockheads on keyboards. He also played on the "London Calling" album.
7deacons 1 year ago
@7deacons he saved Mag 7...him and Norman watt-roy...either that or he's lying
MsGORGONS 1 year ago
this band fit perfect with the edginess and time of the show...man,what a great time!
psychlyst 1 year ago
Looks like this show " Fridays " had some pretty good bands that played on it.
mic01 1 year ago
I am watching far better than just history, watching greatness not to be forgoten.
jlmarc01 1 year ago
one of the best bands
JohnnyLovely2 1 year ago
Mick looks like Jerry Seinfeld a little bit here
tycore1234 1 year ago
that schwas badass and Mick Jones is the shit
smokinghooeyup247 1 year ago
If Joe Strummer was still alive The Clash would be headlining tours as big as the Rolling Stones. There was still a lot left for The Clash to reunite and accomplish. They were far more than just a punk or political statement. They wrote some of the greatest music ever........
Paneeks/Boston
Paneeks1960 1 year ago
@Paneeks1960 I can't tell whether they would or wouldn't but who wants to go to a big stadium and see a band like THE CLASH...when you have U2 doing it...and it sucks...Stadium rock is what killed THE CLASH. They got too big and they forgot to tlk to each other - on stage they couldn;t do jogging like JAGGER so they hit the buffers. Glasto OK ...Actually SHEA killed off the BEATLES live, it killed THE CLASH 2 - that's one hell of a comparison aha ahah
MsGORGONS 1 year ago
@MsGORGONS Excellent point. I did see both nights when the Clash played with The Who at Shea back in 1982 and the planes going over the stadium was really annoying during the Clash sets. I had seen them play smaller venues before that and I enjoyed the smaller halls much better. I really do not think that the stadium killed the bands. It was the music companies/management that they worked for who you could hold blame for the stadium tours. I like what you said though.
Paneeks1960 1 year ago
@MsGORGONS EGO's killed the Clash... a very common disease in the Rock n Roll world...
woowoo1967 1 year ago
I was watching this live 150 years ago. Never forgot it.
omgitsmikegravel 1 year ago
i just figured out y joes guitar is important, be makes the beat
PBANDSNOW 1 year ago
Tain in vain
THAT¨S A SONG
cristianborodri 1 year ago
STRUMMAAAHHHH!!!!!
DLynch01 1 year ago
To some, the clash where at there heights in the 70s. I was there through the 70s and then through the 80s and like them best in the 80s. Every one has there own ideas
JohnKillrory 1 year ago
This show Fridays was ABC's answer to Saturday Night Live back in the 80's. A lot of good comics and actors on it but the show didn't last.
JEDI7ACEN 1 year ago
The clash Rocked as well as the other 80s bands
We started MTV and now it sucks as one would say sold out
We in the 80s grew up in a cool ass time and would go down to the video arcade stores and play games for hours all lit up and wearing our vans and fiveo1s
JohnKillrory 1 year ago
the clash were more 70s than 80s there best material was from the 70s.
cpj93070 1 year ago
london calling's intro is magnificent!
vvnit 1 year ago
Mick looks like he's walked out of a Dick Tracy comic.
Such cool guys.
Berserk3000 1 year ago
@Berserk3000 The Clash were like a street gang with guitar's.....they really understood that image was a cool thing!
sacredo07 1 year ago
they all appear yellowish!!!! mick's suit is cool...his performance was gr8 too...
vvnit 1 year ago
classic Clash!
manuelduardojr 1 year ago
What show was this? "Fridays"? Never heard of it. And Mick does look like Jerry Seinfeld: "Well, hello . . . Strummer."
gmartinz01 1 year ago
Shoot. Look at Micks suit. You're my guitar hero!
Spraycando 1 year ago
hahahhahaaha Mick Jones looks like Jerry Sienfeld
rotflol
cheifhoss 1 year ago 15
@cheifhoss well mick jones is jewsih also so yea, punk rules
marcoscotlar 5 months ago 4
@cheifhoss Yeah hahahahahahaha ....lol
Zubrus555 5 months ago
I
n not sure they rated Beatles much...more KEITH attitudes in Micks' but by 76 STONES = Useless druggies + oldFrenchChateau speculatorz. Joe closeted Lennon fan. Gustave Simenon defo BLUEBEAT fan and TOPPER best drummer of this decade...listened to soul/jazz/rnb worked with London Philarmonicz
PoireauMan68 1 year ago
@PoireauMan68 W T F ?
Spraycando 1 year ago
Taped this my self back when, still have it. What a night. I remember my mate and I standing up in apt. to watch when they came on. His brother said " Why, what is this, the national anthem ?" Pretty close to it.
rasulf 1 year ago 2
I used to love staying up to watch Fridays. I was only 12 but I loved how different it was! I remember this! The first time I had ever seen the Clash! I was hooked!
starbelly3 1 year ago 2
These were the first and last songs on the double album "London Calling". God I miss the 70's/80's.
mojo82 1 year ago 2
Combat Rock at it's finest
icerorer714 2 years ago
Londons calling to the underworld, come out of the cupboards you boys and girls
freewill911 2 years ago
Holy crap. That was fantastic. Joe gone to soon...
IpcressF 2 years ago 3
Ha, ha, ha, "finally Beatlemania's dead"
GingerMcCanny 2 years ago
@GingerMcCanny
The line is "phony Beatlemania". On their first album there's a line: "the world's not the Beatles or the Rolling Stones".
The Clash were huge Beatles and Stones fans. You just don't get it, or you have no clue about the mid to late 70's.
declan32001 2 years ago 3
The lyric in that song is...No Elvis, Beatles, or The Rolling Stones.
SuperRic0 1 year ago
Is that Johnny Fingers from the Boomtown Rats playing keyboards??
Enohead 2 years ago
If it is, I can't hear him. Typical back then.
THESonicMMM 2 years ago
No, it's Micky Gallagher from The Blockheads
madriot1977 2 years ago
Holy shit, that was awesome! They blew the roof off of the place! I can see how they were such a hot band back then.
bareknuckles2u 2 years ago 6
You should have seen them at a live gig mate. Only band that matters...
Spraycando 2 years ago 4
First time i see the fifth
explosiondecaca 2 years ago
i dont like joes hair in the video he even looks better with the mohawk
TheFamilyguy144 2 years ago
His mohican/mohawk was a reference to Travis Bickle mate.
Spraycando 2 years ago
the only TV Appearance to rival it is Joy Division's on something else where they do Transmission and She's Lost Control.
IanSchultz13 2 years ago
im wtf is wat im thinking
NateTheGreat93 2 years ago
Happy birthday Mick Jones!!!! :-)
mooncake68 2 years ago 5
Thank you. Simply awesome. How a band generates that much electricity on a TV set stage is jaw dropping.
fleetwood86 2 years ago 6
Time capsule material. Absolutely one of the best Tv performances ever - They actually look and sound like the only band that mattered.
cashflagg 2 years ago 9
I think friday's was 10 times better than snl ever was.
DarthKreeg 2 years ago 6
To be honest, I think this is one of the best Train In Vain's I've heard.
DylanPalme 2 years ago 13
This is THE best live version :)
pittrek81 2 years ago
@DylanPalme This is London Calling.
radcam69 6 months ago
Paul may be the coolest rocker ever.
cabronte 2 years ago 28
Oi! queenie!! its just rock and roll, thats what punk did, gave music back to young inspirational musicians, pushed a few dead heads off the other end. Maybe you will go without giving the world the benifit of your musical genius or maybe you will just fuck off like the sad loser you are. by the late seventies youre arse was being fucked all over town no doubt!
NRVERTAKEMEALIVE 2 years ago
spit out the sours ... just because your life sucks!
wakinglife61 2 years ago
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Underneath all that washed out chorus & cockney accents, anyone with an IQ over 80 can tell these guys suck. By the late seventies, the music industry found their commercial "punk" band--(ripoff record deal and all & all you lemmings love it!!!) One down, three to go.
queenofdrones 2 years ago
jog off you fuckin twat
you cant understand music worth a damn...
JacboDApunk 2 years ago 4
damn those lucky mothas that got to see this live. It was probably the greatest event of their lives.
plaguedbysociety 3 years ago 4
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i was there. i was holding my sister real tight and we were slow dancing
tuerescaliente 3 years ago
Mick and Joe look awesome!
arseth13 3 years ago 3
whattttttt Mick is perfect
Luanaclash 3 years ago 7
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this is great.
love mic jones, but he does not look cool here haha
ofmontreal88 3 years ago
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lol hes dressed like hes a 54
coolconfuzer 2 years ago
its called a Zoot Suit bro, its an L.A. thing.
chepe371 2 years ago 5
WOW thanx 4 posting
Captlafl69 3 years ago 3
such an amaazing human being taken away from us all.
XDeejayKronosX 3 years ago 7
classic!
k0bb9 3 years ago
the greatest album cover of all time is defineately London Calling with Paul on the cover. RIP JOE we love you!!
sspo17 3 years ago 12
what band is better than the clash? what song is better than london calling?
888zzz 3 years ago 48
what song is better than londons calling?
Somebody got murdered = P lol
arcticmunchy 3 years ago
@888zzz uhhh none you cant top the clash they will remain punks greatest.
sbritt1994 1 year ago
@888zzz just THE CLASH performancing Rock the Casbah :P
ASTRUBAL1334 1 year ago
@888zzz theres more bands, did you start with punk yesterday?
r0ckandrollTV 1 year ago
@888zzz These guys are better than the Clash.
rayjr62 1 year ago
@888zzz I could think of a few bands better than The Clash, and I could think of MANY songs better than London Calling, including almost every song on that album, and half of the ones from their debut.
Imo London Calling (song) is massively overrated within their discography.
SirPwn4lot 1 year ago
@SirPwn4lot I think it's just the feel that it conveys...the aura of that song that people like. I like it...I mean what a brilliant number...on the other hand it took me 12 years to like Stand by me...I didn't like its disco beat at first
MsGORGONS 1 year ago
@888zzz There aren't any.
Salguine 1 year ago
@888zzz For their time and at their peak there was nobody close. The Clash, whose politics were worn on their sleeve, have done something few political bands have done or can do. They haven't aged, even though their politics have. And that's no easy feat. It's because The Clash really were "The only band that matters!"
christoJihad2 1 year ago
@888zzz hateful
PBANDSNOW 1 year ago
@888zzz Spice Girls with the song "Spice up your life"
simonpenum 1 year ago
thanks for posting!
parrakm 3 years ago 2
that is why this show was great One of the greatest bands ever!!!! Man I still cant believe Joe is gone ......Clash 4 ever
jeanbean43 4 years ago 8
Sorry you had to go so young Joe.
nospamprivate1 4 years ago 29
@nospamprivate1 50 isn't young...who wants to live until you're 120? Walt Disney?
MsGORGONS 1 year ago
one of my favorite bands on one of my favoite shows...nice
s8tell1te 4 years ago 3
Do you remember the hand sandwich in the zombie diner? And Michael Richards in the sandbox? No one I ask has any idea what I'm talking about.
moparmonster1965 3 years ago 3
I remember those sketches. I watched this show specifically for the bands. I remember the Clash playing on this show when it was first broadcast--I was shaking I was so excited. I was 15. The Jam played shortly there after and were amazing...except I never listen to the Jam anymore...
douqep 3 years ago 4
Hey, someone posted the Michael Richards stuff; it's under battle boy. The quality is a bit poor, but I'm surprised they still exist at all.
moparmonster1965 3 years ago 2
I love mick's suit.
hairhorn 4 years ago 6
That was fucking brilliant! Never saw this footage. Long live the Clash and RIP Joe.
Nigelxman 4 years ago
Very KooL!! I've forgotten all about this. Thanks for posting
OctoberSaint 4 years ago
I've become addicted to these performances.
53WinterStreet 4 years ago 2
this was during the recording of Sandinista!.it says it in 'Passion is a fashion'.it was one of only a handful of gigs they did during that time to keep them in the public eye
nickelbarse 4 years ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Now Mick is old and bald and snorting coke with Kate Moss.
jryan1971 4 years ago
The night this aired I was working here in Milwaukee as a stage hand at the now defunct Palms club doing the load in and out for The Tourists (Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox) The crowd was thin and I was sitting backstage drinking a beer with Dave and Annie, and they said the low attendance was because it was the Clash's american telly debut!
sacredo07 4 years ago 3
just awesome.thank you for the footage.i used to watch this show all the time.i missed this one somehow.
batterie22 4 years ago
great stuff!
georgpetur 4 years ago
You have the wrong date this was Late 1982.
jmanmoonwalk 4 years ago
I do not know if this has been already said...
But this is from the comedy sketch called show "Fridays" on ABC that lasted in the USA from 1980-1982. I saw this when I was 12. And it was aired on April-25-1980, not 1982. This was my first time seeing The Clash on TV and it is brilliant! They let them do 4 songs! (Which not even Sat. Night Live would let anyone dotoday or back then).
HarryTheHippo 4 years ago
Look at the set list, Joe Strummer's hair and espescially the dude playing organ. Its all from their 1980 US tour as they didn't work in any of the finer points from Combat Rock, Joe Strummer isn't sporting his travis bickle Hairdo and the organist only went along with them on their 1980 US and UK Tour.
punkace 4 years ago
Combat Rock didn't come out til 1982. This is the tour supporting London Calling (hence all the songs are from that album).
mickjonesrules 4 years ago
Thus the reason it doesn't include anything from combat rock, like I said.
punkace 4 years ago
It may have been rebroadcast in 1982, but it originally aired in 1980. I graduated from HS in 1979 and I saw this during my freshman year at UT Austin.
coxutube 4 years ago
Yes I think you're right. Shame on me. I like to think I'm a big Clash fan.
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Emmie5619 4 years ago
THE BEST BAND OF THE ERA AND BETTER THAN ANY NOW!
(did david byrne steal that suit from mick?)
ragozhin 4 years ago 3
god whats wrong with this yanky audiance there nothing compared to the guys back in england no infusium at all worst crowd i say.
cj93070 4 years ago
It was the studio audience for a sketch comedy show. Think about it, they're not gonna be as wild as actual fans of the Clash going to a Clash show.
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r10isgreat 4 years ago
zoot suit
OneManArmmy 4 years ago
i love the clash!!!
but he sang the words wrong at :37
deweyfinn123 4 years ago
uhm... actually joe messed pretty often with lyrics, and in 79 he changed some lyrics of londo calling to some unwritten lyrics, and if you ask from me, its kinda skill that you just can throw lyrics live...
JoesRamone 4 years ago
this is the best performance of this song ive seen on here, although mick looks like a clown because his suits too big for him :p
15pen 4 years ago
I remember seeing this live and have been waiting to find it online.
vonhasselbach 4 years ago
Great clip.
Tazz77 4 years ago