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Joe Strummer And Paul Westerberg

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In 1976 Joe joins an already formed band with Mick Jones and Paul Simonon.

In 1978 or 1979 Paul Westerberg joins an already formed band with Bob Stinson, Tommy Stinson and Chris Mars.

The band name the Clash is chosen after Joe joins.

The band name the Replacements is chosen after Paul W. joins.

The Clash release 7 studio albums (i'm including the BMC 10" as most of the material was new to the USA fans)

The Replacements release 7 studio albums.

The final Clash album CTC is recorded by session musicans and is considered by most fans as Joe's first solo album.

The final Replacements album All Shook Down is recorded by session musicians and is considered by most fans as Paul W's first solo album.

The Clash break up after the CTC album.

The Replacements break up after the All Shook down album.

Joe's solo career begins by contributing two songs, Love Kills and Dum Dum club to the Sid and Nancy movie soundtrack.

Paul W's solo career begins by contributing two songs, Waiting for Somebody and Dyslexic Heart to the Singles movie soundtrack.

Joe's first solo album EW contains 14 songs.

Paul W's first solo album is 14 songs.


After that their careers went off in tangents. Joe into his wilderness era and Paul W releasing more solo albums.

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and both their names start with a capital letter.

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Joe Strummer was in a band called The 101ers.
Paul Westerberg's new album is called "101 songs".

Joe Strummer liked to eat Cheese.
Paul Westerberg sometimes got himself into a pickle.

Joe Strummer had a gilfriend called Palmolive who was in a band called The Slits who wrote a song called "Shoplifting".
Paul Westerberg wrote a song for The Replacements called "Customer".

Joe Strummer contracted Hepatitis (allegedly) and had to go to the hospital.
Paul Westerberg wrote a song called "Take Me Down To The Hospital".

Joe Strummer was once in a band with punk legend Keith Levene.
Paul Westerberg's inspiration for the song "Bastards of Young" was Keith Levene.

Joe Strummer starred in the Alex Cox film "Repo Men".
Paul Westerberg was once a bum who had his car reposessed.

Paul Westerberg covered the kISS song "Black Diamond" with the band The Replacements.
Joe Strummer said "That cover of the KISS song "Black Diamond" by The Replacements was the best version".
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Ha! The Keith Levene one was funny.

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daredevil wrote:Ha! The Keith Levene one was funny.
:mrgreen: Two of the greatest front men ever.
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Marky Dread wrote:Paul Westerberg covered the kISS song "Black Diamond" with the band The Replacements.
Joe Strummer said "That cover of the KISS song "Black Diamond" by The Replacements was the best version".
Heh.
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Wolter wrote:
Marky Dread wrote:Paul Westerberg covered the kISS song "Black Diamond" with the band The Replacements.
Joe Strummer said "That cover of the KISS song "Black Diamond" by The Replacements was the best version".
Heh.
So nicely put, even I can't object this time.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Yeah, but Joe acted in movies and Paul Westerberg is a self-admitted movie hater.

Paul Westerberg is awesome by the way..

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ImSoBoredWithTheUSA wrote:Yeah, but Joe acted in movies and Paul Westerberg is a self-admitted movie hater.

Paul Westerberg is awesome by the way..
Both Joe and Paul W. are awesome. They are one and two on my list of favorite songwriter/vocalist/musician. I just realised a week ago that both
of their careers sort of mirrored each other's; which is why I started this thread.

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Joe Strummer had a secretary named Westerberg in 1973
Paul Westerberg bet on Secretariat in 1973
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daredevil wrote:
ImSoBoredWithTheUSA wrote:Yeah, but Joe acted in movies and Paul Westerberg is a self-admitted movie hater.

Paul Westerberg is awesome by the way..
Both Joe and Paul W. are awesome. They are one and two on my list of favorite songwriter/vocalist/musician. I just realised a week ago that both
of their careers sort of mirrored each other's; which is why I started this thread.
:) Yeah, they're both awesome. Paul is also greatly underrated as a songwriter in my opinion.

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Sorry to bump this and all, but I think daredevil may be on to something because I also just noticed this while listening to the Mats:

My main focus is between the two bands' arguably greatest and finest hours put in a record. The cover image to the 1987 critically acclaimed, fantastic album, Pleased to Meet Me is a parody of an Elvis album (G.I. Blues). So is The Clash's also great, widely acclaimed 1979 album London Calling (Elvis Presley). Also, Pleased to Meet Me was considered a strikingly big change to the Mats' sound and reputation because of the use of different instruments and genres; likewise with our boys' London Calling. More specifically, the Mats track "I Don't Know" off PtMM features swingy horns kind of reminiscent to "The Right Profile" while "Nightclub Jitters" features a sort of prominent bassline and jazzy atmosphere similar to - you guessed it - "Jimmy Jazz"

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Nice.....I didn't know about the Pleased to Meet Me album cover being a tribute to Elvis's GI Blues.

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"I'm wearing dirty clothes/I'm made of filthy rags/I like the New York Dolls and The Clash"

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101Walterton wrote:and both their names start with a capital letter.
I couldn't agree more, it's clutching at straws to find any parallels. For a start there are only five proper Clash albums. No amount of saying 'unreleased in the States' will ever make Black Market Clash anything other than a good compilation of b-sides and tracks from he UK debut, along with the genuine unreleased 'Time Is Tight'. The music covers a time span of two years, it isn't an album as such. And as for 'Cut The Crap' being Joe's first solo album? Isn't it Bernie's wrecking ball of an album?

I'd rather leave it at Joe and Paul being themselves and leave sinister, hidden messages and secret connections to someone like Dan Brown. File under fiction.

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