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The Clash, Live at Shea

bmfc1 Oct 02 2008 05:44 AM

Shea lives on: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001E7OO2S/ref=br_nf_2_6?pf_rd_p=336434301&pf_rd_s=center-4&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=465672&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=04T16M5PKRWWXW01QQ24

Vic Sage Oct 02 2008 07:57 AM

holy crap... I was at that concert! I was in college at the time (SUNY Stony Brook), and my then-girlfriend and I had seats in the upper deck by 1st Base. The stage was in CF. The acoustics sucked, the bands looked like raisins, and The Who were touring FACE DANCES, their very lame post-Keith Moon studio album ("You better you bet"). We arrived late, missing the opening act, David Johansen (post- NY Dolls, pre- Buster Poindexter), but we caught the Clash's set, and they totally rocked. The Who didn't do a great job of following them, with Kenny Jones on drums (his most notable trait was that he was NOT Keith Moon), a typically disinterested Entwhistle, and Townsend and Daltrey refusing to even look at each other. It was that night i realized the Who were over, and it was soon after i bought the LP of COMBAT ROCK.

Gwreck Oct 02 2008 08:08 AM

I believe the tour that hit Shea was in support of the "It's Hard" album.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 02 2008 08:14 AM

Gwreck wrote: I believe the tour that hit Shea was in support of the "It's Hard" album. Which sucked more than Face Dances.

AG/DC Oct 02 2008 08:23 AM

It's funny. I know I'm soft about the eighties, but I can't let go the coat for either album. If I can figure out what "He had a snake the size of a sewer pipe living in his rib cage" means before I die, I'll be a happy man.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 02 2008 08:26 AM

I thought Face Dances was OK. But I felt vastly superior to the dorks walking around wearing "It's Hard" tour shirts with a video game on the front.

AG/DC Oct 02 2008 08:38 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 05 2008 09:18 PM

The fist pumping arena-thunder cock rocking Who of the seventies grew far more tedious over time than the more curious nu wave failures of the eighties. Now I'm far more likely to stop the tuner when it scans to "Athena" than when it stops on "Long Live Rawk," but that be based on my retro-superiority to the fatsos in Who's Next T-shirts copping weed by the bridge.

Willets Point Oct 02 2008 09:23 AM

Thanks. This goes on my birthday wishlist now!!!

TheOldMole Oct 04 2008 08:42 PM

I saw the Clash at Bonds in Times Square. Awesome.