— Musings —12.22.2014 02:32 PM
Joe
Not Cocker (although RIP to him, too). Strummer – our hero, our muse, our shining light. Twelve years today.
— Musings —12.22.2014 02:32 PM
Not Cocker (although RIP to him, too). Strummer – our hero, our muse, our shining light. Twelve years today.
Brilliant. Let’s hope that the concept of chivalry and bringing justice to the world are not dead.
I was fortunate enough to have seen both of them perform live. Cocker in Ottawa around 1977 and The Clash in Montreal and in the UK a couple of years later. He was good, they were terrific.
Joe had a bottle of whiskey on the stage beside his mic stand and it was empty by the end of his show. I don’t think The Clash stopped playing long enough to even drink water between songs.
Joe Cocker had the whiskey, not Joe Strummer LOL.
“Raise a toast to St. Joe Strummer, I think he might have been our only decent teacher”
Rock the Casbah !
“By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that craazy Casbah sound
But the Bedouin they brought out
The electric camel drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the Shareef
Had cleared the square
They began to wail”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ
Great song, but I wonder how poor Joe would have fared out with that song today with ISIS, Al Queda and others.
Let Fury Have the Hour. RIP Joe.