More so, I was hoping to find anything definitive in terms of sessions, recordings, or song titles. Specifically,
- Mick's Hell W10 rejected soundtrack
- Music created by Mick in March, June, July or August of '83
- Other Strummer/Simonon/Howard demos from August '83
- How often the four of them were together at the rehearsal room
If anyone can add, expand or correct what's here, that'd be great.
JANUARY
- End of January - Strummer/Clash produce Hell W10
FEBRUARY
- Strummer/Clash produce Hell W10
- Mick creates soundtrack for Hell W10 but it's rejected by Joe
- Paul's father and step-mother in car accident. Paul spends next few months visiting father.
MARCH
- Joe pays off Topper's drug dealer approx $30,000.
- Joe produces Tymon Dogg's solo album which remains unreleased.
- March 17: Joe appears in the Sun to promote his marathon team's charity cause (Leukemia research)
- The Clash move back to building that housed Rehearsal Rehearsals and rename it Lucky 8 Studios. The intent to begin practicing for new album. By the time the studio is ready they receive the April offer to go to US Festival.
APRIL
- Early April: The Clash offered headlining spot for US Festival
- April 17: Joe runs London marathon
- April 23: Clash place ad in Melody Maker for drummer
MAY
- Early May: The Clash practice with Pete Howard for the tour?
- May 16/17: Paul marries Pearl Harbour in NYC stop-over en route to warm up tour
- May 18-28: US mini-tour and US Festival
- May 29/30: Clash in Las Vegas (post tour vacation)
JUNE
- The Baker recalls telephoning Bernie, Kosmo, Joe and Mick periodically through June and July to check in about preparing the rehearsal space but "Nobody knew anything. Would be surprised if they got in a full rehearsal in August."
- Pete Howard says he hadn't heard from anyone in the band for 4 months after the US Festival.
- Mid June: Clash reconvenes to practice at rehearsal space on Freston Rd.
- Joe slips lyrics into mail slot for Mick to add music. Mick would bring them to rehearsal?
JULY
- Bernie presents contract to Joe, Paul and Mick. Mick says he'll have his lawyer look it over.
- Joe slips lyrics into mail slot for Mick to add music. Mick would bring them to rehearsal?
AUGUST
- Early-to-Mid August: Recording Czechoslovak Song/Where Is England?, Pouring Rain, Before We Go Forward (Strummer, Simonon, Howard)
- Mid August: In a pub near the rehearsal room, Nick Sheppard overhears Kosmo say to Bernie and Joe that "He's gotta go, he's gotta go."
- Last week of August: Topper shows up to rehearsal room to check in on the guys, finds Mick there and jams with Mick.
- August 29: Mick Jones fired from band
SEPTEMBER
- September 10: Clash release "a terse statement to the press: “It is felt that Jones had drifted away from the original idea of the Clash"
- September 10: Jones issues a statement denying as much and asserting: "In the future I’ll be carrying on in the same way as in the beginning. By the time of the announcement, he has already formed Big Audio Dynamite"
- Mick forms Top Risk Action Company (TRAC)?
- Mick freezes Clash assets?
- Mick records with General Public?
- Mick does live mixing for Sigue Sigue Sputnik (at a gig opening for New Model Army) and Spear of Destiny shows?
OCTOBER
- October 1: Clash place ad looking for new guitarists
- End of October: Nick Sheppard chosen as guitarist.
NOVEMBER
- Demos for Top Risk Action Company (TRAC)
- Demos for The Clash at Lucky 8 Studio
- November 18: Gaby Salter gives birth to Jazz Domino Holly Mellor
- Rehearsals for January 1984 California tour?
DECEMBER
- Recorded in December 1982, Janie Jones & The Lash 7" released a year later (promo insert claims November 18 as scheduled release date -http://www.45cat.com/imageview/1373F92D9FAB03718A4)
- December 10: Vince White added as lead guitarist
- Rehearsals for January 1984 California tour?
- December 25: Vince goes to Joe's house for Xmas