...To All Wavebands on Earth!!!.....

Joe Strummer left us 3 years ago yesterday. To all those who have not been lucky enough to endure me talking about Joe and The Clash and The Mescaleros and what my connection is/was to them please take a look thru TWP's wonderful website Strummernews and go to the photos sections. Me and Tami and a select lucky few were there to document Joe's last shows in the USA


Enough with words mate lets get a little bit a rockin' shall we?

Joe - On The Beginnings Of The Clash 0:44
White Riot 1:56 The Clash
Koka Kola 1:47 The Clash
Trash City 4:15 Joe Strummer
Kingston Advice 2:37 The Clash
Guns On The Roof 3:15 The Clash
Get Down Moses 5:05 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
The Harder They Come 3:52 Joe Strummer & The Long Beach Dub All Stars
Forbidden City 4:46 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Ghetto Defendant 4:44 The Clash Combat Rock
Arms Aloft 3:47 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Global A Go-Go 5:55 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Armagideon Time 3:51 The Clash
Junco Partner 4:52 The Clash
Wrong 'Em Boyo 3:10 The Clash
Tony Adams 6:33 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Bankrobber 4:34 The Clash
Yalla, Yalla 6:56 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Let's Go Crazy 4:24 The Clash
At The Border, Guy 7:08 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
London Calling 3:19 The Clash
Techno D-Day 4:07 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Ready for War 3:58 Clash 2
Mondo Bongo 6:14 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
The Sound of the Sinners 4:01 The Clash
X-Ray Style 4:34 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
All The Young Punks (New Boots And Contracts) 4:55 The Clash
I'm So Bored With the U.S.A. 2:24 The Clash
London's Burning 2:12 The Clash
All In a Day 4:55 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Safe European Home 3:50 The Clash
Ramshackle Day Parade 4:02 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
One More Time 3:32 The Clash
Garageland 3:12 The Clash
Julie's In The Drug Squad 3:03 The Clash
48 Hours 1:36 The Clash
Silver and Gold 2:38 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
No Reason 1:36 Joe Strummer


"A system built by the sweat of the many, creates assasins to kill off the few"
- Joe Strummer (Guns on the Roof)

Time for new music

Got a new playlist and this one is centered around FC Barcelona's crushing of evil (once again) and their hosting of the peace match. Not sure how much it all means as things are sadly going back to "normal" in Palestine but Barcelona organized a match in their stadium (the Nou Camp) between themselves and a team made up of Palestinians and their Jewish counterparts. I watched the match on TV and those desert guys aren't half bad.

Also, finally got around to getting the new Gogol Bordello album and I am featuring a couple of songs off it. You know what? Let's put some Outernational up there. Got some live tracks from their best show ever, halloween eve at Southpaw.

Enjoy!!

60 Revolutions 2:58 Gogol Bordello
Rumba De Barcelona 3:31 Manu Chao
La Grip 4:33 Xerramequ Tiquis Miquis
Propozuda R n'Roll 2:38 De Falla
Roda Rodete Rodiano (Zambo Mix) 3:42 Chico Science & Bid
The Big Match 2:24 Lone Ranger
Poor Man 3:09 Ranking Dread
Que Pena 3:29 Ziroq
Shalom Israel 2:36 Eric Fernandez
Ya Rayah 3:13 Rachid Taha
Deni Kele 7:36 Taffetas
Blood on the Streets 4:30 Outernational
A Life, A Knife 3:18 Outernational
Illumination 3:52 Gogol Bordello
Global A Go-Go 5:55 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros

Barcelona and Tapas (and plenty of drink!)

Fly on the Wall

Bush: Maybe we should get rid of that godammed A-rab channel, what do ya say Tony? Is there a way to sell that?

Blair: Are you off your tits mate? There is no way we can take out the Arab CNN and just get away with it. Are you blathered?

Bush: Off your tits, ha I love those limey sayings, you guys are great. What does bollocks mean? I could never figure that out.

Blair: Well...

Bush: You ever thought of that?? I speak english, you speak english but sometimes you say things I don't understand. That's so funny. It's like when I talk with high school graduates.

Blair: For fuck's sake....


What kind of fly and on whose wall? I would like to be a fly big enough to carry some recording equipment, and after what I just read I would love to be a housefly at 10 downing st.

To me the inner circles of governments are run by more sadistic criminals than you can fit in front of a firing squad. Their business essentially is moving our lives around some damm chessboard. If the chess piece that represents you, your life or your liberty becomes surplus to requirements, so be it.

This has been clearly illustrated by the disregard to human life shown by some of the most powerful criminals in the world today. Do people realize what kind of world we are living in when one secret closed door meeting between Bush and Blair can decide (directly) the lives of hundreds of employees of a news organization and (indirectly) the fate of independent media as we know it?

Now the British govt has made it a crime for a reporter to publish this memo if given the chance (that has guilt smeared all over it) and I haven't seen too many american new outlets concerned about this story. I guess they don't feel that when a president calls out a hit on an organization that (he feels) disagrees with his polices, that it should warrant anyone's attention. Maybe it shouldn't, it might happen alot more than we think.

Read a blog run by Al Jazeera employees. Find out what collateral damage sounds like.