Plaza de Joe Strummer inaugurated in Granada
Source: The Guardian
It is a small square, set away on the far side of the magnificent Alhambra complex, but friends say the Placeta Joe Strummer inaugurated on Monday evening in the southern Spanish city of Granada would have delighted the Clash frontman.
With its white walls, reddish sand, pine trees, carved drinking fountain and views of the spectacular Sierra Nevada, the square reverberated on Monday night to the sound of Spanish Bombs, London Calling and other Strummer songs as musician friends from Britain and Spain gathered to celebrate.
"He liked the city a lot," said Esperanza Romero, whose family first brought Strummer to what would become one of his favourite cities. "For me he was like a soul brother."
Romero and Strummer shared a west London squat when he was a struggling musician and her sister Paloma was the future Clash singer's girlfriend sparking his interest in Spain and the city where their brother Fernando was studying, Granada.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/20/plaza-joe-strummer-granada
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)johnp3907
(3,733 posts)I just ordered it.
wake.up.america
(3,334 posts)corkhead
(6,119 posts)London Calling changed my life.
DBoon
(22,397 posts)nt
corkhead
(6,119 posts)You would probably appreciate this. I have pretty much switched to iTunes and retired all of my Vinyl & CDs, having loaded them in to my library. I was never happy with the CD version of Double Nickels On The Dime because of the missing songs. I recently re-assembled the album in it's original form as it played on vinyl, including about 10 seconds of the car-jams, which was about how long it took to get up and flip the record over. I had to use a mix of CD and Vinyl for this reconstruction because I had pretty well worn out the vinyl so I only used it where I had to.
Also, if you haven't seen this, it is pure joy to watch:
DBoon
(22,397 posts)Maybe the 'American Beauty' of the punk generation?
TomClash
(11,344 posts)I approve.
Oh my corazon.
abq e streeter
(7,658 posts)Chicago, 1999 or 2000....Ironic to see this right below the thread about Ray Manzarek...I had just posted on Facebook about how the two bands who, more than any others, I regretted never having seen, were The Clash and The Doors. I'm so very grateful that I happened to be in Chicago when Joe was playing. A night I will always remember . Sounds like a wonderful tribute.
mpcamb
(2,878 posts)If there's a commercial before it, I apologize.
MP
abq e streeter
(7,658 posts)Tribute To Joe Strummer
by Dave Lordan
Your words were boots Joe , boots in Lewisham
when black and white and yellow riot put down the Nazi scum,
and in Trafalgar Square in ninety-one
when the fury of our rainbow class put Thatcher on the run
your words were firing like a gun Joe, firing like a gun.
I heard your booming words echo through the streets of Prague-
when we shut the World Bank down
and you were roaring vengeance in Genoa
when we had to fight through gas and bullets just to hold our ground
and when the many-headed future met in Florence
everyone knew your name Joe, your songs were all around.-
And when the threw me in a cell Joe, I sang straight to hell Joe
and when they stood me up in court Joe, I hummed the Brixton guns Joe
Oh Joe! when you got up to sing
it was a fist in a coppers face.
It was a pitchfork in a landlords neck.
It was a bullet in a contras gut.
It was an arrow in the eye of a general.
It was a kick in the balls for the rich.
It was everything good Joe.
It was everything good.
And when us Zombies and us Rastas
and us Punks and Workers win
you will be singing in our blood Joe
you will be dancing like speed in our veins.
mikeysnot
(4,757 posts)Last edited Tue May 21, 2013, 03:15 PM - Edit history (1)
Miss you dude.