Doing it for kids - limited Combat Rock raffle. Missed a trick by not linking it to 48 hours.
Much as I feel uneasy about charity prize draws - what if I win, should I re-donate the prize back to the cause?! - I've thrown my hat in the ring for this one.
Partly cos it's a neat idea with a cool prize, partly cos I have a lot a lot of time for Unicef (any charity given the OK by Peter Ustinov and Roger Moore is alright by me) - but especially because I won't win, thus my original misgiving won't apply!
Doing it for kids - limited Combat Rock raffle. Missed a trick by not linking it to 48 hours.
Much as I feel uneasy about charity prize draws - what if I win, should I re-donate the prize back to the cause?! - I've thrown my hat in the ring for this one.
Partly cos it's a neat idea with a cool prize, partly cos I have a lot a lot of time for Unicef (any charity given the OK by Peter Ustinov and Roger Moore is alright by me) - but especially because I won't win, thus my original misgiving won't apply!
In the immortal words of someone I can't remember " Everyone will win once"
In my case it was a Sony Ericsson mobile phone back in the Xmas of 2007
Keep the prize, make a donation
I once won a box full of sweets for a Robin Hood costume my mother had sewn for me.
And no, I did not give them to the poor.
On your deathbed, you will reflect upon a life lived well … yet a single tear will nevertheless make its way down your cheek at your sin of childhood.
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
"Bernie Rhodes wanted to chop guitarist Mick Jones’ mix into something less unwieldy."
Yes but Bernie you're the manager so shut the fuck up!
Bernie couldn't even remember Glyn Johns name and mentioned Gus Dudgeon.
I still think Glyn Johns wasn't the right producer for that album either. Knew nothing about punk and hated it based on the Sex Pistols a band that had been split up almost 4 years earlier. So he basically closed his ears to a whole genre of music based on what he had read about the Sex Pistols in the press.
Should've gone with Chris Thomas and Bill Price. They at least understood the music.
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.
"Bernie Rhodes wanted to chop guitarist Mick Jones’ mix into something less unwieldy."
Yes but Bernie you're the manager so shut the fuck up!
Bernie couldn't even remember Glyn Johns name and mentioned Gus Dudgeon.
I still think Glyn Johns wasn't the right producer for that album either. Knew nothing about punk and hated it based on the Sex Pistols a band that had been split up almost 4 years earlier. So he basically closed his ears to a whole genre of music based on what he had read about the Sex Pistols in the press.
Should've gone with Chris Thomas and Bill Price. They at least understood the music.
He doesn't come off as very clued up at all. Was hard pushed to even recognise Casbah or SISOSIG.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
"Bernie Rhodes wanted to chop guitarist Mick Jones’ mix into something less unwieldy."
Yes but Bernie you're the manager so shut the fuck up!
Bernie couldn't even remember Glyn Johns name and mentioned Gus Dudgeon.
I still think Glyn Johns wasn't the right producer for that album either. Knew nothing about punk and hated it based on the Sex Pistols a band that had been split up almost 4 years earlier. So he basically closed his ears to a whole genre of music based on what he had read about the Sex Pistols in the press.
Should've gone with Chris Thomas and Bill Price. They at least understood the music.
He doesn't come off as very clued up at all. Was hard pushed to even recognise Casbah or SISOSIG.
It's clear he doesn't care for the record. Really should've picked a producer that was sympathetic to that genre at least an understanding of new wave. All Glyn Johns really did was edit. The re-recording of a couple of Joe vocals could've been done by any other producer.
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.
"Bernie Rhodes wanted to chop guitarist Mick Jones’ mix into something less unwieldy."
Yes but Bernie you're the manager so shut the fuck up!
Bernie couldn't even remember Glyn Johns name and mentioned Gus Dudgeon.
I still think Glyn Johns wasn't the right producer for that album either. Knew nothing about punk and hated it based on the Sex Pistols a band that had been split up almost 4 years earlier. So he basically closed his ears to a whole genre of music based on what he had read about the Sex Pistols in the press.
Should've gone with Chris Thomas and Bill Price. They at least understood the music.
He doesn't come off as very clued up at all. Was hard pushed to even recognise Casbah or SISOSIG.
It's clear he doesn't care for the record. Really should've picked a producer that was sympathetic to that genre at least an understanding of new wave. All Glyn Johns really did was edit. The re-recording of a couple of Joe vocals could've been done by any other producer.
'Combat Rock' is the album I bought and loved at the time, although now I know it could have been so much more. Thankfully, we have access to Mick's greater vision, even though it only reinforces that "could have been..." thought. I'll take The Clash, warts'n'all, because in many ways it when they were fucking things up that they came out on top. Maybe not with Glyn Johns though, I wonder what Gus Dudgeon would have done with it?
"Bernie Rhodes wanted to chop guitarist Mick Jones’ mix into something less unwieldy."
Yes but Bernie you're the manager so shut the fuck up!
Bernie couldn't even remember Glyn Johns name and mentioned Gus Dudgeon.
I still think Glyn Johns wasn't the right producer for that album either. Knew nothing about punk and hated it based on the Sex Pistols a band that had been split up almost 4 years earlier. So he basically closed his ears to a whole genre of music based on what he had read about the Sex Pistols in the press.
Should've gone with Chris Thomas and Bill Price. They at least understood the music.
He doesn't come off as very clued up at all. Was hard pushed to even recognise Casbah or SISOSIG.
It's clear he doesn't care for the record. Really should've picked a producer that was sympathetic to that genre at least an understanding of new wave. All Glyn Johns really did was edit. The re-recording of a couple of Joe vocals could've been done by any other producer.
'Combat Rock' is the album I bought and loved at the time, although now I know it could have been so much more. Thankfully, we have access to Mick's greater vision, even though it only reinforces that "could have been..." thought. I'll take The Clash, warts'n'all, because in many ways it when they were fucking things up that they came out on top. Maybe not with Glyn Johns though, I wonder what Gus Dudgeon would have done with it?
I've come to think of Combat Rock as the 'Joe version' and Rat Patrol as the 'Mic version' since Joe was very involved in the sessions with Glyn.
It's really cool to have both visions of it. I love them both for different reasons.