The Clash with Ranking Roger on vocals- Rock The Casbah

from a Clash bootleg thought people might enjoy this after all the uploads of the same Rock The Casbah song and video

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Music

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• the
• clash
• ranking
• roger
• english
• beat
• rock
• casbah
• punk

[4theRecordAdoptADog]

Holy crap - that is gooooooood!!!!

Thanks a million rutaloot !

[rutaloot]

@4theRecordAdoptADog glad you like it :)

[skatingdread]

Well we used a studio i think in notting hill.

Mick Jones was with me and a couple of engineers.

We took the original 24 track and took the lead vox out.

Anyway,it was not allowed to be let out to anyone,althouh i gave the late John Peel a copy of it (R.I.P.)

but......yes,I guess you could say it was a demo waiting approval i guess.

Thanks for letting people hear what could have been a remix,if it was finished.

Better some than none!

Respect!

RR :)

[rutaloot]

no problem! and thanks for all the information about it I have to say I can't imagine how good this would have been if you guys had finished it! I mean I think this version sounds great and this is just the rough mix! but anyways big respect on this one! I think I actually like this version better than the original Rock The Casbah I think I might search and see if I can find that version of Red Angel Dragnet with you toasting over since I think that would be very cool to listen to

[skatingdread]

Nice to see this cut up here.

I recorded this for the Clash in London around 82-3 when the clash and the beat toured quite a bit in the U.S.A together.

I also did a toast/rap over red angel dragnet which i have

not heard since.

I did it as a one take in the studio.The Clash split up shortly afterwards so it was never released.

What you guys are hearing here was just a rough mix for us to go away and listen too.

it was never finished.

[rutaloot]

thats really cool to know!....so then this is basically like a demo not a live version or anything like that right?

[catdad132]

Ranking Roger is awesome! Very glad someone posted this.

[TheSkacid]

Excellent cut, shame it hasn't been finished and released on vinyl

Anymore out there like this?.

[MsJayney1]

Saw Rankin Roger & The Beat play this last night in a great gig at Stratford, went down a storm, he's a legend!!

[sendtownjose]

@skatingdread Ranking Roger, it's very nice to meet you! I'm only a 23 year old dominican lad, but when I was 16, the english beat and general public's tenderness were the soundtrack of my life. Tenderness is so beautiful, I can't even begin to describe it! Plus, Ferris Bueller's day off is my favorite movie, so I love the instrumental version of Rotating Head that Hughes played at the end! You should come to my country and blast a Ska explosion! You rock!

[hairbear13ee]

It show where Big Audio came from

[ayshortier]

I liked that. Maybe we can get Dave of the English BEat to do it!

[pawnsacrifice1]

Nice one RR this would have worked had it been released!

[salvadory]

absolute genius in all respects- i love it !!!!

[vandrossfan]

Love this I liked the Clash and just loved the Beat really nice to hear this version wish it was released all them years ago sure all parties involved would have made a few quid.

[RicardoBlue1000]

Thanks for post and background info......quallity. I see mr Ranking a few times back in the day and wish this had been released. Would have been propper propper!