............Robert Duvall, in total gung-ho oblivian, striding accross the beach like a lord of the manor, bullets flying, motar rounds landing, wrapped in his American bubble of certainty, convinced its his right to own the break 'cause..."Charlie Don't Surf". Determined, it is implied, to show Charlie what this place is for......There can be no richer metaphor for America's ambivilent self-i...
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Now, as I understand it, we all pride ourselves on our music collection/selections/confections, whatever. Well, I contend that if you have a collection of Rock Music and it does not contain **London Calling** ,Your collection is sadly incomplete.The Clash took on the world with this album, and pinned it to the mat. The boys display an affinity for, and impressive command of a wide range of pop...
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Joe Strummer - or John Mellor as he was then known - began studying at Central in Sept 1970, one of over 400 applicants for the 60 available places. He wanted to be a cartoonist, though he told people he wanted to be in advertising.Joe later described the school as the "last resort of malingerers and bluffers and people who don't want to work," but it has long been one of the most prestigious a...
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On the evening of August 13, 1976, The Clash invited some music journalists and friends to Rehearsals Rehearsals to see them play. Even in the hyper-small Punk world of the time they had gone unnoticed, quietly scheming, writing and rehearsing an arsenal of songs. The lucky few walked out of the balmy evening into a brick walled room with a rock and roll backline at the rear. Behind it was a pa...
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Yesterday I did a post of my "run in" with the law. I actually have never had any type of run in with the police, and do not even have a speeding ticket to my name. Scratch that, I did get caught driving with out insurance once but that is a whole other story. Anyways, on my post quite a few moggers gave ideas of great songs to be chased by the police to, and I had to agree they were pretty goo...
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Today, as I write this, it’s the traditional Day of the Dead - Mexico’s annual Dia de Los Muertos - celebrating the loved ones that we’ve lost in the past, recent and distant. For many of us in the MOG community, the holiday has a dark resonance this year, due to the untimely and all-too-premature death of our friend and colleague Chris “Crash” Pryor. On this Day of the Dead, I’m marki
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How's this for Funking Live on Funking Friday?.
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I have mad love for Don Letts and therefore have no doubts that his newest project will be awesome. The former Roxy Club dj produced a film with rare live concert footage of the Clash which will be released on DVD in April and excerpts will be broadcast on PBS in early March. The film is called "The Clash Live: Revolution Rock" and it will be widely available on April 15th. Letts was close w...
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Carnival Day in London27 April 2008 - Thirty years after a group of music stars decided to Rock Against Racism, the Love Music Hate Racism carnival is celebrating the efforts of 1978.The Good, The Bad and The Queen, Hard-Fi and Jay Sean are headlining the anti-racism concert in east London. Organisers hope 100,000 people will attend the free carnival in Victoria Park.The original gig was headli...
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David Bowie, Ronnie Wood and Paul Simonon. Would anyone care about their paintings if they weren't famous musicians?
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"We get a new power...every hour" to quote Mr. Mayfield over at I Am's post...http://mog.com/I_am/blog/1197482yes, yes...it is FF and it's time to celebrate. out with the old and in with the new. maybe, as a people, we can get back to that spirit of America that makes your skin goose-bump when you hear the Star Spangled Banner at your local sports outing. maybe we gots us a funky new prez now ...
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I always feel guilty listening to music at work. Maybe it is because I don't listen to the "easy listening" that attribute to cubicle dwellers, and my music habits demand that I devote at least more than 10% of my subconscious to what is playing. Am I alone in this feeling?So many people treat music as an ambient environmental tool, which is what I do too, but on top of that I have a hard time...
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Biopics are in these days... Joy Division's late frontman Ian Curtis has one coming out, Bob Dylan has, like, three and now add The Clash's Joe Strummer to that list. A trailer for the Joe Strummer biopic The Future Is Unwritten from rock-and-roll documentary director Julien Temple has been released. The flick, featuring interviews with Martin Scorsese, Bono and Mick Jones, is expected to hit...
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OK, settle in, because I'm gonna talk about a concert I saw 30 years ago today, October 13, 1979. Tickets were $8.50.The venue was Kezar Pavilion, a shithole that in my youth was best known as the home of the Bay Bombers roller derby team. First on the bill was The Rebels … don't remember a thing about them. Next up were local faves The Dead Kennedys. Far as I can tell, the only thing they'd re.
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...since the Hip Hop Thursday thang still has teeth, I thought I'd point to one of the first places that I ever heard a rap done...by a white guy, no less...The tune is called "Overpowered By Funk" by the Clash from off of their Combat Rock LP...although I already have it on mp4, I just got a copy from a homebiscuit on M (thanks Mike)...the latter reminded me that I'd written a piece on this tu...
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