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#88027 by philbymon
Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:05 am
Still, it's a rather nice tribute, giving him free advertising & all..."even bad publicity is good," & all that...

#88028 by philbymon
Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:05 am
Still, it's a rather nice tribute, giving him free advertising & all..."even bad publicity is good," & all that...

#88062 by philbymon
Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:34 pm
I dunno why I keep repeating myself
I dunno why I keep repeating myself
I dunno why I keep repeating myself
I dunno why I keep repeating myself
I dunno why I keep repeating myself
I dunno why I keep repeating myself
I dunno why I keep repeating myself

#88136 by CraigMaxim
Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:28 pm
philbymon wrote:
LOL I am SO out of the loop on these newer weirdos! Funny...I don't feel left out of anything...



I don't think you're missing anything either bro.

It's like the Sex Pistols. Sex Pistols are lauded as groundbreaking and one of the most important bands in history.

Ok whatever.

Too bad "The Clash" or some group like that wasn't the first to RECORD and get an album noticed, and hence, be credited with beginning the Punk movement.

I mean no offense, but The Clash was a better band with better songs and better musicians.

Sex Pistols were merely in the right place at the right time, and benefitted from it. They are praised like gods of music, and yet they had what? One album? Maybe 4 singles?

I had their album once, but I could have missed it and life would not have been any different. The Punk genre could say the same. If it wasn't the Sex Pistols, some other MORE WORTHY band would have been the ones credited with beginning the Punk movement, and maybe that band would have had better songs, better musicians, and hey... maybe even 2 or 3 albums and a reasonable history.

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#88257 by Starfish Scott
Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:25 am
If the Clash hadn't been talking about ROCKING THE CASBAH, they wouldn't have been so popular. That idea still has some merit according to the US Military in 09'. lol

#88286 by CraigMaxim
Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:01 pm
LOL

There is an interesting back-story to "Rock the Casbah"

From wikipedia:

Origins of the song:

One theory is that the song was inspired by the banning of rock music in Iran under Ayatollah Khomeini.[2] The song gives a fabulist account of the ban being defied by the population, who proceed to "rock the casbah". The King orders jet fighters to bomb any people in violation of the ban. The pilots ignore the orders, and instead play rock music on their cockpit radios.

The song does not mention Iran or any other Islamic nation by name. The lyrics include a mixture of Arabic, Jewish, Urdu, and North African terms such as sharif, bedouin, sheikh, kosher, rāga, muezzin, minaret, and casbah.[4]

According to the album notes on the box set The Clash on Broadway, "Rock the Casbah" originated when the band's manager Bernie Rhodes, after hearing them record an inordinately long track for the album, asked them facetiously "does everything have to be as long as this rāga?" (referring to the Indian musical style known for its length and complexity). Joe Strummer later wrote the opening lines to the song: "The King told the boogie-men 'you have to let that rāga drop'". The rest of the lyrics soon followed.[5]

The Clash "Rock the Casbah" (1982)

The song is one of the few in which drummer Topper Headon played a substantial role in the writing of the music beyond the percussion tracks.[2] The instrumental opening was a tune he had written on the piano some time earlier, and had toyed with during rehearsals before being incorporated into the song. In the 2000 documentary Westway to the World Headon said he played drums, bass, and piano on the record for the song. Headon claims that, while he thought he was merely playing the song for the band, his performances were, unbeknownst to him, recorded. All that was left to record was the guitar parts and the vocals. However, in The Future Is Unwritten (a documentary on Strummer) he states that he was in the studio waiting for the rest of the band to come to record, got sick of waiting, so recorded the parts himself.[6]
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