My mate was talking to "Mensi" Mensforth from the Angelic Upstarts, and he reckons that after visiting the Clash in the studio during the Sandinista sessions, Mensforth Hill was named after him. He also claims there are bits of an interview with him played backwards during the song.
-- Clash minutiae.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
Heston wrote:My mate was talking to "Mensi" Mensforth from the Angelic Upstarts, and he reckons that after visiting the Clash in the studio during the Sandinista sessions, Mensforth Hill was named after him. He also claims there are bits of an interview with him played backwards during the song.
-- Clash minutiae.
I think he may be telling the truth !!
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As far as I know there is no place called Mensforth Hill ?
My mate was talking to "Mensi" Mensforth from the Angelic Upstarts, and he reckons that after visiting the Clash in the studio during the Sandinista sessions, Mensforth Hill was named after him. He also claims there are bits of an interview with him played backwards during the song.
-- Clash minutiae.
All true.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
Mick changes the vocal phrasing for the last chorus of Rock the Casbah, adding an extra syllable to the word "don't."
-- Clash minutiae.
Good catch. It's not that "don't" has an extra syllable, more like Shareef has one less syllable causing "don't" to fall on an earlier beat. Last chorus "Shareef" has two syllables, but in the previous choruses he kinda makes it have three syllables: "sha-re-eef."
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
Mick changes the vocal phrasing for the last chorus of Rock the Casbah, adding an extra syllable to the word "don't."
-- Clash minutiae.
Good catch. It's not that "don't" has an extra syllable, more like Shareef has one less syllable causing "don't" to fall on an earlier beat. Last chorus "Shareef" has two syllables, but in the previous choruses he kinda makes it have three syllables: "sha-re-eef."
Yeah. I wanted to explain all that but couldn't be bothered. Thanks.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
Mick changes the vocal phrasing for the last chorus of Rock the Casbah, adding an extra syllable to the word "don't."
-- Clash minutiae.
Good catch. It's not that "don't" has an extra syllable, more like Shareef has one less syllable causing "don't" to fall on an earlier beat. Last chorus "Shareef" has two syllables, but in the previous choruses he kinda makes it have three syllables: "sha-re-eef."
Yeah. I wanted to explain all that but couldn't be bothered. Thanks.
-- Heston minutiae.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.