Combat Rock 40th anniversary reissue coming soon?

[IkarisOne]

It would have been nice to hear the original Ear takes of OBF and GD and anything else that got reworked in New York.

Same here. There are a lot of demos I wanted to hear. Here's the sessionography compiled by matedog:
https://clashcity.com/boards/viewtopic. ... 75#p559430

April 1981
Studio - Marcus Music, Kensington Gardens Square
This is Radio Clash
Car Jamming
Sean Flynn

September 1981
Studio - Ear Studios, The People's Hall
Overpowered by Funk
Long Time Jerk
Midnight to Stevens (1981-09-17)
Should I Stay Or Should I Go
First Night Back in London
Know Your Rights
Inoculated City
Ghetto Defendant

November/December 1981
Studio - Electric Lady, NY
Atom Tan
Cool Confusion
Straight to Hell
Red Angel Dragnet
Idle in Kangaroo Court
Beautiful People Are Ugly Too
Rock the Casbah
Death is a Star

April 1982
Studio - Glyn Johns Garden Studio, Warnford
Know Your Rights (rerecording vocals)
Should I Stay or Should I Go (rerecorded vocals)
Ghetto Defendant (rerecorded vocal)

Has anyone done a list of the songs Joe and Glyn Johns added guitar to?

[APACHES67]

I think Glynn Jones has made a great job, he improved all the songs from the original versions in Rat Patrol, except for the hateful cut of Inoculated City but is not his fault, there wasn't enough space on vinyl. You could imagine what could be a double Combat Rock mixed by Glynn Jones....a double masterpiece. I'm agree with Heston(I too miss the long original version of Inoculated City that is a great song, i hate the cut one) and Young Parisians(i think Outside Bond's is useless, is not a song, every time I will listen to the record, I will skip this useless track), so I feel disappointed for this two reasons and more....why side D is blank? There was enough to fill the empty side D(i miss Walk Evil Talk, Once You Know, Cool Confusion instrumental, Cool Confusion edit, the instrumental from DVD Hell W10,...why First Night Back in London is cut? I miss the whole song...I'm Happy for the release of The People's Hall, but at the same time i feel disappointed. I like He Who Dares Or Is Tired(for me has a connection with Hitsville U.K. and Drummin' Man, nice sax and nice rhythm), Know Your Rights is not good as the official, but is the best alternate i've heard, interesting, i like Radio One, yes is from 1980 but better this track than the useless Outside Bond's. I understood the records companies always decided to leave one or more songs out....that's business....they will put what we miss in a future version of the album and once again they will catch our money because they know we love The Clash... No CBS...No Claim With Bluff and Swindle.

[matedog]

It would have been nice to hear the original Ear takes of OBF and GD and anything else that got reworked in New York.

Same here. There are a lot of demos I wanted to hear. Here's the sessionography compiled by matedog:
https://clashcity.com/boards/viewtopic. ... 75#p559430

April 1981
Studio - Marcus Music, Kensington Gardens Square
This is Radio Clash
Car Jamming
Sean Flynn

September 1981
Studio - Ear Studios, The People's Hall
Overpowered by Funk
Long Time Jerk
Midnight to Stevens (1981-09-17)
Should I Stay Or Should I Go
First Night Back in London
Know Your Rights
Inoculated City
Ghetto Defendant

November/December 1981
Studio - Electric Lady, NY
Atom Tan
Cool Confusion
Straight to Hell
Red Angel Dragnet
Idle in Kangaroo Court
Beautiful People Are Ugly Too
Rock the Casbah
Death is a Star

April 1982
Studio - Glyn Johns Garden Studio, Warnford
Know Your Rights (rerecording vocals)
Should I Stay or Should I Go (rerecorded vocals)
Ghetto Defendant (rerecorded vocal)

Has anyone done a list of the songs Joe and Glyn Johns added guitar to?

No idea what other overdubs were done by Glyn.

[Kory]

I am super pissed that they did not include Once You Know, Cool Confusion, Mustapha Dance, Over Powered By Funk extended mix and the Ranking Roger dubs. They also could have included more of the Rat Patrol alt-versions especially the extended STH, Alt- SISOSIG etc etc... Walk Evil Talk?

What is Once You Know? How have I not heard of this?

[IkarisOne]

I am super pissed that they did not include Once You Know, Cool Confusion, Mustapha Dance, Over Powered By Funk extended mix and the Ranking Roger dubs. They also could have included more of the Rat Patrol alt-versions especially the extended STH, Alt- SISOSIG etc etc... Walk Evil Talk?

What is Once You Know? How have I not heard of this?

Tymon Dogg song.

[IkarisOne]

It would have been nice to hear the original Ear takes of OBF and GD and anything else that got reworked in New York.

Same here. There are a lot of demos I wanted to hear. Here's the sessionography compiled by matedog:
https://clashcity.com/boards/viewtopic. ... 75#p559430

April 1981
Studio - Marcus Music, Kensington Gardens Square
This is Radio Clash
Car Jamming
Sean Flynn

September 1981
Studio - Ear Studios, The People's Hall
Overpowered by Funk
Long Time Jerk
Midnight to Stevens (1981-09-17)
Should I Stay Or Should I Go
First Night Back in London
Know Your Rights
Inoculated City
Ghetto Defendant

November/December 1981
Studio - Electric Lady, NY
Atom Tan
Cool Confusion
Straight to Hell
Red Angel Dragnet
Idle in Kangaroo Court
Beautiful People Are Ugly Too
Rock the Casbah
Death is a Star

April 1982
Studio - Glyn Johns Garden Studio, Warnford
Know Your Rights (rerecording vocals)
Should I Stay or Should I Go (rerecorded vocals)
Ghetto Defendant (rerecorded vocal)

Has anyone done a list of the songs Joe and Glyn Johns added guitar to?

No idea what other overdubs were done by Glyn.

We can't tell from playing the two versions and see which has more Joe?

[Mark^Bastard]

Edit: beaten

So will we get Rat Patrol for the 50rh anniversary

[IkarisOne]

It would have been nice to hear the original Ear takes of OBF and GD and anything else that got reworked in New York.

Same here. There are a lot of demos I wanted to hear. Here's the sessionography compiled by matedog:
https://clashcity.com/boards/viewtopic. ... 75#p559430

April 1981
Studio - Marcus Music, Kensington Gardens Square
This is Radio Clash
Car Jamming
Sean Flynn

September 1981
Studio - Ear Studios, The People's Hall
Overpowered by Funk
Long Time Jerk
Midnight to Stevens (1981-09-17)
Should I Stay Or Should I Go
First Night Back in London
Know Your Rights
Inoculated City
Ghetto Defendant

November/December 1981
Studio - Electric Lady, NY
Atom Tan
Cool Confusion
Straight to Hell
Red Angel Dragnet
Idle in Kangaroo Court
Beautiful People Are Ugly Too
Rock the Casbah
Death is a Star

April 1982
Studio - Glyn Johns Garden Studio, Warnford
Know Your Rights (rerecording vocals)
Should I Stay or Should I Go (rerecorded vocals)
Ghetto Defendant (rerecorded vocal)

Has anyone done a list of the songs Joe and Glyn Johns added guitar to?

No idea what other overdubs were done by Glyn.

Looking at that schedule I really wonder what kinds of drugs were floating around Washington Square Park at the time. The Ear sessions seem mostly to be tracks they'd written and rehearsed and are relatively conventional Clash songs. Aside from RTC and STH the Electric Lady tracks are all insane. Not a value judgment, just an objective analysis.

[River]

It would have been nice to hear the original Ear takes of OBF and GD and anything else that got reworked in New York.

Same here. There are a lot of demos I wanted to hear. Here's the sessionography compiled by matedog:
https://clashcity.com/boards/viewtopic. ... 75#p559430

April 1981
Studio - Marcus Music, Kensington Gardens Square
This is Radio Clash
Car Jamming
Sean Flynn

September 1981
Studio - Ear Studios, The People's Hall
Overpowered by Funk
Long Time Jerk
Midnight to Stevens (1981-09-17)
Should I Stay Or Should I Go
First Night Back in London
Know Your Rights
Inoculated City
Ghetto Defendant

November/December 1981
Studio - Electric Lady, NY
Atom Tan
Cool Confusion
Straight to Hell
Red Angel Dragnet
Idle in Kangaroo Court
Beautiful People Are Ugly Too
Rock the Casbah
Death is a Star

April 1982
Studio - Glyn Johns Garden Studio, Warnford
Know Your Rights (rerecording vocals)
Should I Stay or Should I Go (rerecorded vocals)
Ghetto Defendant (rerecorded vocal)

Has anyone done a list of the songs Joe and Glyn Johns added guitar to?

No idea what other overdubs were done by Glyn.

We can't tell from playing the two versions and see which has more Joe?

Car Jamming I think got a rerecord with Glyn. There's some of Joe's delivery on the vocals that differ from the Rat Patrol version. It doesn't sound like it was a full on rerecord, but maybe just a few lines here and there. I'd also be willing to be that was one of the songs that Joe added more guitar to.

[Marky Dread]

So is this definitely the usual version of Radio Clash? If so why aren't they just calling it by its correct title of "Radio Clash" rather than "This Is Radio Clash (Different lyrics)?"

That's how's it's listed on Sound System.

Yes of course you're correct.

I mean it's a dumb way to title it, but they seemed to just be carrying over a bad idea from Sound System.

I always just thought it was called Radio Clash as per the original single release and Super Black Market Clash.

Yes the A-side: This Is Radio Clash
B-side: Radio Clash

Of course it was really one long track but they couldn't fit it on one side of vinyl. That's why I edited them back together as the "Full version".

They even got the wrong version on Super Black Market Clash.

[matedog]

They even got the wrong version on Super Black Market Clash.

Wait, what? Don't think I'm familiar with this.

[matedog]

I am super pissed that they did not include Once You Know, Cool Confusion, Mustapha Dance, Over Powered By Funk extended mix and the Ranking Roger dubs. They also could have included more of the Rat Patrol alt-versions especially the extended STH, Alt- SISOSIG etc etc... Walk Evil Talk?

What is Once You Know? How have I not heard of this?

Per the description:
On the 10th anniversary of the death of my extraordinary friend Joe Strummer I'd like to share an un-released track I recorded with The Clash around the time they were making Combat Rock. The full track is 8 minutes long, here is 3 minutes' worth, much of it instrumental, with an accompanying video shot just this week. The Clash played magnificently on the track - Joe and Mick on guitars, Topper on drums and percussion, Paul on bass and me, Tymon Dogg, on keyboard, violin and vocals. When we were rehearsing the song, Joe remarked 'it sounds like a Casbah' and Topper, Paul and Joe started shouting 'Rock the casbah, Man'... That's how the chorus of one of the most famous tracks by The Clash came about.'

Basically the Lose This Skin of the Combat Rock sessions. Not sure which specific session. I'd assume Electric Lady since we know Tymon is on Death is a Star.

[Flex]

You know what? Combat Rock is a pretty decent little record.

[Marky Dread]

They even got the wrong version on Super Black Market Clash.

Wait, what? Don't think I'm familiar with this.

Was listed wrong on the artwork. So labelled wrongly.

The original version of the revised artwork also introduced a new error by listing "Radio Clash" as "This Is Radio Clash" (the former song, which appears on the album, is the b-side to the latter song which does not), but this was corrected on later pressings.

[Kory]

You know what? Combat Rock is a pretty decent little record.

I just love how weird it is.