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Marky Dread wrote:
16 Nov 2021, 8:45am
Here's the original. You can see Don half on the road half on the pavement (sidewalk). With the road surface removed it gives that "floating" effect.
Maybe there's a weird perspective thing for me, but it's also like DL is slightly too big. Whenever I see it, I think that he's been cut out of a different photo—from the same event, mind you—and been placed in the one we see because it's more effective. I agree that the relative bleaching of the road and sidewalk versus the detail and contrast on DL might be why, but it doesn't seem natural.
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Big Clash Dynamite.
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Marky Dread wrote:
03 Mar 2022, 5:38pm
Big Clash Dynamite.
goddamn that is a powerful photo
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
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Marky Dread wrote:
03 Mar 2022, 5:38pm
Big Clash Dynamite.
I'm now wondering if that's The Clash or TRAC?
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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Heston wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 12:25pm
Marky Dread wrote:
03 Mar 2022, 5:38pm
Big Clash Dynamite.
I'm now wondering if that's The Clash or TRAC?
Looking at how healthy Topper looks I would say the fomer.
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Marky Dread wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:36pm
Heston wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 12:25pm
Marky Dread wrote:
03 Mar 2022, 5:38pm
Big Clash Dynamite.
I'm now wondering if that's The Clash or TRAC?
Looking at how healthy Topper looks I would say the fomer.
Didn't he get healthy again for TRAC before going off the rails? I can usually tell a Clash era by Mick's hair but it's difficult here. Topper just has a healthy glow I never saw in the post 1980 Clash photos.
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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Heston wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:38pm
Marky Dread wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:36pm
Heston wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 12:25pm
Marky Dread wrote:
03 Mar 2022, 5:38pm
Big Clash Dynamite.
I'm now wondering if that's The Clash or TRAC?
Looking at how healthy Topper looks I would say the fomer.
Didn't he get healthy again for TRAC before going off the rails? I can usually tell a Clash era by Mick's hair but it's difficult here. Topper just has a healthy glow I never saw in the post 1980 Clash photos.
USA/Olympics hat suggests 84 (LA Summer Olympics) to me.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:45pm
Heston wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:38pm
Marky Dread wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:36pm
Heston wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 12:25pm
Marky Dread wrote:
03 Mar 2022, 5:38pm
Big Clash Dynamite.
I'm now wondering if that's The Clash or TRAC?
Looking at how healthy Topper looks I would say the fomer.
Didn't he get healthy again for TRAC before going off the rails? I can usually tell a Clash era by Mick's hair but it's difficult here. Topper just has a healthy glow I never saw in the post 1980 Clash photos.
USA/Olympics hat suggests 84 (LA Summer Olympics) to me.
So not TRAC but BAD. I was trying to pin down that cap. Mind when did TRAC stop? Must be before TRAC finished or after BAD started.

Mick's stubble look is very much his image on the first album.
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The end of liberty


We're the flowers in the dustbin...
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Marky Dread wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:56pm
matedog wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:45pm
Heston wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:38pm
Marky Dread wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:36pm
Heston wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 12:25pm


I'm now wondering if that's The Clash or TRAC?
Looking at how healthy Topper looks I would say the fomer.
Didn't he get healthy again for TRAC before going off the rails? I can usually tell a Clash era by Mick's hair but it's difficult here. Topper just has a healthy glow I never saw in the post 1980 Clash photos.
USA/Olympics hat suggests 84 (LA Summer Olympics) to me.
So not TRAC but BAD. I was trying to pin down that cap. Mind when did TRAC stop? Must be before TRAC finished or after BAD started.

Mick's stubble look is very much his image on the first album.
TRAC fell apart in May 1984 according to John Lennard.
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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Heston wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 2:43pm
Marky Dread wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:56pm
matedog wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:45pm
Heston wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:38pm
Marky Dread wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:36pm


Looking at how healthy Topper looks I would say the fomer.
Didn't he get healthy again for TRAC before going off the rails? I can usually tell a Clash era by Mick's hair but it's difficult here. Topper just has a healthy glow I never saw in the post 1980 Clash photos.
USA/Olympics hat suggests 84 (LA Summer Olympics) to me.
So not TRAC but BAD. I was trying to pin down that cap. Mind when did TRAC stop? Must be before TRAC finished or after BAD started.

Mick's stubble look is very much his image on the first album.
TRAC fell apart in May 1984 according to John Lennard.
Interesting if we are dating the image by the Olympics cap.

The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984.
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Marky Dread wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 7:03pm
Heston wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 2:43pm
Marky Dread wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:56pm
matedog wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:45pm
Heston wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:38pm


Didn't he get healthy again for TRAC before going off the rails? I can usually tell a Clash era by Mick's hair but it's difficult here. Topper just has a healthy glow I never saw in the post 1980 Clash photos.
USA/Olympics hat suggests 84 (LA Summer Olympics) to me.
So not TRAC but BAD. I was trying to pin down that cap. Mind when did TRAC stop? Must be before TRAC finished or after BAD started.

Mick's stubble look is very much his image on the first album.
TRAC fell apart in May 1984 according to John Lennard.
Interesting if we are dating the image by the Olympics cap.

The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984.
Presumably they were sold some period (days? weeks? months?) before the Olympics, so I think May 84 is possible.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 11:10pm
Marky Dread wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 7:03pm
Heston wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 2:43pm
Marky Dread wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:56pm
matedog wrote:
15 Mar 2022, 1:45pm


USA/Olympics hat suggests 84 (LA Summer Olympics) to me.
So not TRAC but BAD. I was trying to pin down that cap. Mind when did TRAC stop? Must be before TRAC finished or after BAD started.

Mick's stubble look is very much his image on the first album.
TRAC fell apart in May 1984 according to John Lennard.
Interesting if we are dating the image by the Olympics cap.

The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984.
Presumably they were sold some period (days? weeks? months?) before the Olympics, so I think May 84 is possible.
Ah yeah that's true. I never gave that any thought.😎
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I never thought I'd have to do research on the overlap between The Clash and the 1984 Olympics but here we are. :cool:
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
16 Mar 2022, 10:47am
I never thought I'd have to do research on the overlap between The Clash and the 1984 Olympics but here we are. :cool:
But you were waiting for this moment your whole life though, right?😏😎
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Marky Dread wrote:
16 Mar 2022, 10:54am
matedog wrote:
16 Mar 2022, 10:47am
I never thought I'd have to do research on the overlap between The Clash and the 1984 Olympics but here we are. :cool:
But you were waiting for this moment your whole life though, right?😏😎
84 was an absurd Olympics thanks to the boycott.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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