"This is punk rockers, we're controlled in the price of the hard drugs we can find"
"Parent Controoooolll "
"You gotta blegheamraagaaernanaeaaainaraarad.. that means you!"
"kick it, (?) fight it (?) xhjdjkdfakfldsowe"
"I gotta xcsdsklkdoooow"
I love Joe's adlibs
@cornersoul I used to have ‘The Clash Songbook’ (1978) (wish I still did) which, in addition to the lyrics (sometimes handwritten) and chords to all the first album plus early singles, had a question and answer section with Joe. So the book seemed to have the band’s input and you might expect - or at least - the content to be correct.\r\nFrom memory it had:\r\n“This is Joe Public speaking. I’m controlled in the body and controlled in the mind. This is punk rockers, we’re controlled by the price of the next drugs that we find”.\r\nIf you can actually hear...
@cornersoul I used to have ‘The Clash Songbook’ (1978) (wish I still did) which, in addition to the lyrics (sometimes handwritten) and chords to all the first album plus early singles, had a question and answer section with Joe. So the book seemed to have the band’s input and you might expect - or at least - the content to be correct.\r\nFrom memory it had:\r\n“This is Joe Public speaking. I’m controlled in the body and controlled in the mind. This is punk rockers, we’re controlled by the price of the next drugs that we find”.\r\nIf you can actually hear Joe deliver those last four words then you’re probably having an auditory hallucination. I suspect it was Joe’s little joke around the band’s (and producer Scatch Perry’s considerable weed intake) and was deliberately kept inaudible so as not to invite trouble for the band or jeopardise the single’s chances of exposure. Punk/punk rockers were already getting so much adverse press in the tabloids with the Clash also claiming police harassment: “at every hotel we’d be met by the law”.\r\nBy the time the book came out ‘Complete Control’ had been and gone and things had moved on, so the lyrics didn’t matter any more. Publish!
"This is punk rockers, we're controlled in the price of the hard drugs we can find" "Parent Controoooolll " "You gotta blegheamraagaaernanaeaaainaraarad.. that means you!" "kick it, (?) fight it (?) xhjdjkdfakfldsowe" "I gotta xcsdsklkdoooow" I love Joe's adlibs
@cornersoul I used to have ‘The Clash Songbook’ (1978) (wish I still did) which, in addition to the lyrics (sometimes handwritten) and chords to all the first album plus early singles, had a question and answer section with Joe. So the book seemed to have the band’s input and you might expect - or at least - the content to be correct.\r\nFrom memory it had:\r\n“This is Joe Public speaking. I’m controlled in the body and controlled in the mind. This is punk rockers, we’re controlled by the price of the next drugs that we find”.\r\nIf you can actually hear...
@cornersoul I used to have ‘The Clash Songbook’ (1978) (wish I still did) which, in addition to the lyrics (sometimes handwritten) and chords to all the first album plus early singles, had a question and answer section with Joe. So the book seemed to have the band’s input and you might expect - or at least - the content to be correct.\r\nFrom memory it had:\r\n“This is Joe Public speaking. I’m controlled in the body and controlled in the mind. This is punk rockers, we’re controlled by the price of the next drugs that we find”.\r\nIf you can actually hear Joe deliver those last four words then you’re probably having an auditory hallucination. I suspect it was Joe’s little joke around the band’s (and producer Scatch Perry’s considerable weed intake) and was deliberately kept inaudible so as not to invite trouble for the band or jeopardise the single’s chances of exposure. Punk/punk rockers were already getting so much adverse press in the tabloids with the Clash also claiming police harassment: “at every hotel we’d be met by the law”.\r\nBy the time the book came out ‘Complete Control’ had been and gone and things had moved on, so the lyrics didn’t matter any more. Publish!