supersoul

Let's say that a few years earlier, Mick Jones was singing against the old rock "No Elvis, Beatles, or Rolling Stones." ...And in '82, they opened for the Who! In reality, they are a great rock band, as this live performance shows, but why, as Currahee says, was this date chosen? It was the time of "Combat Rock" with hits like "Rock the Casbah" and "Should I Stay or Should I Go" (and indeed the video for this song features the Clash entering Shea Stadium with the introduction by Kosmo Vinyl at the concert and the Clash were starting to break into MTV. Today, which live performance would bring more money to Columbia-CBS? That's why this one and not one from around 1979-80? In reality, there have always been a lot of bootleg vinyls of Clash concerts from the Topper era, and I have the one from Hammersmith Odeon (Despatches from the Clash Zone) that seems to have some value in the market :) This, on the other hand, is a great document of rock and makes you think about how the Clash can fire up the crowd gathered for the Who... and also scold them, like the bully Strummer does in "Career Opportunities" when he says, let's see what happens if we put 72,000 guinea pigs under the downpour. Proof of a great rock'n roll group.