If Music Could Talk

"We first went to the town centre in Yorkshire." LOL. Deny, where are you, your comments are required. Somebody has pointed that out, actually, in the comments posted for that video -- that's the actual quote, and not knowing any better, I went with it. Since these are a taster for what I'd put int...

Silent Majority wrote:Bowie's middle name was Marc?

Actually, had you listened to some of Bowie's earlier stylistic forays in some altered state or other, you might well have been forgiven for thinking that!

As Tony Visconti so memorably said of his most famous client: "Marc never 'stole,' it was always, 'influenced by'!"

Reggae was a pretty big part of my high school soundtrack, so I'd have to go with "Living In Fame." But "Version City" would be right up there, too, no doubt about it.

Maybe "mouldy old Joe" (as Seething Wells memorably dubbed him in NME 's hallowed halls) had seen how Bernie and/or CBS planned to package that "rebel rock" flavor like so much canned tomatoes (as the man himself so memorably phrased it during his midsummer '86 mea culpa to the very same rock rag sh...

Good idea, Chris: actually, I've thought about something like that, as I still have the tape in my archives...and it'd be a good idea to get it into cold print before all those bits of magnetic oxide flakes off for good! There's a few other conversations and chronicles of my encounters with some of ...

Thanks, Tedddy: I'm reminded of Nick's comment that graced my original 1994 DISCoveries article, to wit: "I don't like him [Bernie], but I don't think his intentions were bad. He wanted a record that would sell millions, and establish himself as a genius. Surprisingly enough, he failed." Yes, Chris,...

Just to clarify: my main point is that -- given the lack of meaningful interactions between CBS and the band -- I don't think the corporate fingerprints can be blamed here. The other factor -- besides the rosy glow of Combat Rock's performance still smelling relatively fresh in the corporate memory ...

Thanks, Chris, I appreciate that: I think there's more work to be done, and I still hope to realize the fruits of my own cold print vision for the Clash...hence, all those little nuggets being posted my website (http://www.chairmanralph.com) at the moment. (My latest is on the Clash-Specials connect...

Hello, Chris (and everyone else here!)...I think we have to distinguish between the band's contract, and the one with CBS. To try and address some of your questions: finances were a bone of contention throughout the Clash II era: according to Nick, the band was structured as a limited company, with ...

Personally, I never had a problem with the reunited Pistols -- whom I saw at the Aragon Ballroom -- because they never really promised anything. The weight of the Clash myth, well...now that's a bit harder to live up to, eh? :mrgreen: All jokes apart, though, I never thought that a Clash reformation...

Yes, indeed, though looking back on those guys crowded into ill-fitting kilts behind banks of synthesizers is vaguely amusing ( :mrgreen:). This malaise also affected the top gunslingers, too...I vividly remember Jeff Beck saying after There And Back came out, "The guitar will probably be gone in te...

I personally think it was a combination of two factors: a) Mick being bored with the guitar, which reflected b) the 'uncool' factor of the instrument -- many bands on both sides of the pond made such a fetish of de-emphasizing or disowning the six-stringed beast back in '82-'83. I understand where y...

Ah, my friend there's the rub...Mick was probably playing those dinky little scrapes on a guitar. A synth guitar, that is. Which is an oxymoron, like "Sears cocktail dress', eh ?

Maybe he's saving up the outtakes for an appearance on the Home Shopping Network ?