Solidarity!

[British_Rockstar]

I'm walking down the street the other day and there's a car downtown at a heavy intersection with this Mexican guy in a wife beater and a mullet. He has the windows rolled down and what's blasting from it?


No, not Elliott.

(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais

and he was bobbing his head and singing along.

And you know what? I started singing along, too.

Man, even more than with Elliott, whenever I hear someone grooving to the Clash I feel like they're family. I picture it's like when you're a war correspondent reporter in a violent area and you're about two seconds from getting your head blown off - if by chance your captor is a Clash fan and you let them know you are one too then all of a sudden you're brothers smoking cigarettes, drinking and singing along to White Man or I fought the Law. What is it about The Clash that unites people so?
Elliott was a big fan. Maybe it's because their music kind of made you feel like there was something "bigger" out there. So, yeah... mullet guy. That's my bro. It's a poetic feeling on a hot day.

[El Scorcho]

this is the best post you've ever made.
I agree completely with your thoughts on seeing someone listening to The Clash and the feeling it gives you.

[meepghost]

dannys who posts here sometimes was lucky enough to see thee clash in new york back in the day .. opening for the who i think ..

[British_Rockstar]

dannys who posts here sometimes was lucky enough to see thee clash in new york back in the day .. opening for the who i think ..

lucky! I saw Joe Strummer only a year before he died.
:darn:

[British_Rockstar]

this is the best post you've ever made.
I agree completely with your thoughts on seeing someone listening to The Clash and the feeling it gives you.

yeah, I don't know why. It's not this way even with Elliott Smith fans. If someone I know likes Elliott all it tells me is they have great taste in music. But Clash fans - real Clash fans - are like people who really "got" John Lennon before he died and became a saint. There's a kind of optimism in the midst of all the muck. Like you really believe the message.

[seamonster]

Has anyone seen "The Future is Unwritten"?
It's won't be out in the U.S. until November.

[zen_arcade]

That's the JS documentary right? I'm sure it's going to be great -- I read that he actually narrated it. I passed on a chance to see him at St. Anne's Warehouse in Brooklyn shortly before he died. Tickets were too expensive for my poor ass and in retrospect I really wish I shelled out for it. The man was a legend. I too feel a sort of instant connection with people who are serious Clash fans (the same way I do when someone is as evangelistic about Elliott as we all are).