Video Clips of The Clash 1980 by Don Letts

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Re: Video Clips of The Clash 1980 by Don Letts

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Silent Majority wrote:
23 Apr 2021, 12:18pm
Marky Dread wrote:
23 Apr 2021, 11:07am
JohnS wrote:
23 Apr 2021, 9:50am
Marky Dread wrote:
23 Apr 2021, 3:34am
BR16ADE_R055E wrote:
23 Apr 2021, 1:49am


It’s a Bundeswehr patch. The one I have:

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Yep but it came attached to the vest. Those vests used to cost around £3 back in the day. Army surplus stores were full of boxes of them. Nice and cheap clothing for ye olde punk rockers etc.
Pennie Smith's book has a pic of Mick wearing one of them too. I'm surprised the Clash front men all stooped to wearing such commonplace clobber! (although I never saw them on sale in the army surplus stores I knew)
Very popular at the time. Each year I would go to the Reading Rock Festival I would go to the Army surplus store and buy a cheap shirt. Cheapest ones were the vests and the German plain green army shirt with the black, red and yellow tag on the arm.
I got a green one from the stall there in 2007. The guy told me it was an ex-Irish one, but I was wearing a shamrock necklace at the time so in retrospect I think he saw me coming.

I'm wearing it in this, which, believe it or not, was not an audition for the Inbetweenwers

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That's peak 2007 hair on the bottom right.
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Re: Video Clips of The Clash 1980 by Don Letts

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matedog wrote:
23 Apr 2021, 12:36pm
Silent Majority wrote:
23 Apr 2021, 12:18pm
Marky Dread wrote:
23 Apr 2021, 11:07am
JohnS wrote:
23 Apr 2021, 9:50am
Marky Dread wrote:
23 Apr 2021, 3:34am


Yep but it came attached to the vest. Those vests used to cost around £3 back in the day. Army surplus stores were full of boxes of them. Nice and cheap clothing for ye olde punk rockers etc.
Pennie Smith's book has a pic of Mick wearing one of them too. I'm surprised the Clash front men all stooped to wearing such commonplace clobber! (although I never saw them on sale in the army surplus stores I knew)
Very popular at the time. Each year I would go to the Reading Rock Festival I would go to the Army surplus store and buy a cheap shirt. Cheapest ones were the vests and the German plain green army shirt with the black, red and yellow tag on the arm.
I got a green one from the stall there in 2007. The guy told me it was an ex-Irish one, but I was wearing a shamrock necklace at the time so in retrospect I think he saw me coming.

I'm wearing it in this, which, believe it or not, was not an audition for the Inbetweenwers

1929448_30131990276_8973_n.jpg
That's peak 2007 hair on the bottom right.
Definitely.
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