The greatest 3:08 in my life was watching The Clash perform this song live . . . four times!

The best punk single ever written ever!

Still listen to The Clash all the time!

This is the greatest rock track of all time

Greatest punk song of all time

Still the greatest rock and roll song ever!

Just beautiful. A raw superb version.

Can’t get enough of this. Gets better every time!

I don't know why,but this is my favorite version of the song.

Raw and totally superb, the best song ever!

One of those rare times when a clash song had a guitar solo.

The thin sound from mick and chopped chords from joe with pauls Rickenbacker gives the band such a classic sound from the 70's punk setting it apart from any genre which many rely heavily on thick bass to fill the gap but here they little density of sound creates a great performance in my opinion by the only band that mattered

I love the twangy demo sound on this. True the bass is too low, but you hear every sinew of the song. Classic punk.

Never ages. As raw and brilliant as the day I first heard it.

Lucky enough to see them in a club before they were too famous. Still one of my top ten live performances!!!!!

5th November 1977! The Arnolfini Centre in Bristol! What a fucking concert! The burned the fucking house down! RIP Joe!

Topper is such a good drummer

Nothing like raw live Clash!

this is great punk rock it's all about the soul raw expression

this is my fave version. forget about sound recording methods and enjoy the agro vibe. I for one like the cardboard boxy of Micks guitar. a proper treat , thanks for posting.

for me one of the best video of early punk rock.thank you from poland and germany

wonderful. this is an exciting performance and the song is great. outstanding songwriting will shine through anything.

Love the Clash. Always.

La mejor banda de punk rock de todos los tiempos!

Great live performance, punk rules!

The distortion pedal batteries are about to die any minute here LOL still rockin and still awesome regardless. I think Mick's pants were sprayed on too. Either that or he's not wearing any.

Brilliant !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Topper.....

This is a fantastic piece of punk history. Totally stripped down. Nice.

Great great great

If you listen to this performance with your Bootleg Ears...you get it. They were playing very low volume on the set of a TV studio. During this performance they did an interview and 3 (yes, 3 songs). They actually played very well. Joe doesn't start playing his guitar until after the first verse of the song. 1977 was the Year of the Clash. All of their best songs were written and released during 1977. City of the Dead, The Prisoner, Complete Control, Gates of the West...Capitol Radio. They have immense cred just from 1977.

must read the book of Philippe manoeuvre " l'enfant du rock" . It was a french TV performance but the TV syndicate didn't want they play at high volume . It explains this tiny sound .

Ya .. this fu&$@king rocks.. I was 19 when this came out. I heard it in SF on KSAN radio and loved this. Thanks for posting

Out fuckin standing

Fek sake - no one should be talking about amps vu meters or the likes -its just fkn clashtastic at its best!

flippin' heck, never knew this existed. Pure charisma, they were so important. Thanks

In a time of Excess, The Clash showed up and saved Rock and Roll!

Best ever version.....my fav single ...and I had them all up till....sandanista came out

1:21 Mick soars to new heights of awesomeness

数々のComplete Control聞いた中でも 個人的には、1番かもしれません。 映像ありきですが、特にMick Jones　最高です UP有難う御座いました

Just effing great, what else can be said

Raw and bloody class.

i remember watching this when i was 16 and it blew my mind i fucking love this performance

What's great about this version is you can hear each instrument clearly. It's totally stripped of all the Lee Perry production that invites thoughts of echoes from the basement at the end of eternity. The single version is great, perhaps my favorite of all the raw punk-era Clash songs, but it's nice to see and hear how they played this tune absent the studio effects.

Clash were so much about aesthetics as well as about music those pink amp cabs look the business

Mind that day . I know in my fifties now but what a song to be in your head for all these years . Never realised just how raw iand full on it was , privelaged to had those years . Only other one on same page for me is Search and Distroy

Now that is rock music!

crazy. thx for this

Mick jones straight outa glam

Love the raw sound. High energy.

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing this!

Awesome post ! thanx for that

Bedroom Destroyer.💥

This is fantastic!! Thank you so much! :-)

wow very nice to see thanks for sharing :)

wonderfull

Brilliant

awesome guitar

1:58 punkest Clash's moment ever

Fkn wicked mate nice one!!;)

Once was rare, before 1996 and the internet

Joe's wearing Paul's shirt! 😁

Fucking with the absolute best.

its like pauls bass amp wasn't on and joe only strikes a chord every now and then (like tim armstrong from rancid does) - Mick kept messing up. This sounds like a complaint but its not - loved this!

I would have been 8 or 9 years old in 1977 but I was way over in California, San Francisco, to be exact and none of my peers ever discussed them because these bands would not get air time on the radio....undesirables in the bay area.

Não importa o que você escuta, isso e um clássico.

grate song

Wow! Thanks for uploading! :D

The only band that ever mattered

生々しい音！これこそpunk Rock

FUCKING ROCKED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Real pop stars dude yeah

Wow!

However i wish i could hear perrys original mix more than i want breath!

Best fucking band ever.

FIRE!!!!

fkin brilliant!

This version punkrocks!

Mick is another casualty of the infamous Ampeg V-4. Yeah, it sounds great cranked up all the way. But it's A VERY LOUD AMP. So you'll play some video-studio thing like this, and you'll have to turn it down to like 2 or 3. And you sound like the backing track of a frickin' Beach Boys single. Poor Mick -- carry on, Mick!

dig it

Don't complain about the audio quality. It was worse when I saw them

Then there were P.A.'s, and sound engineers, then there was CBS and America. Then there was nothing.

I miss the "I don't trust you" part of the vocals, which is so important to the recorded version of the song. Maybe it wasn't added until after this was shot? Still, great to see an intimate early live performance of one of the Clash's best and most important true punk songs. Yeah, so the sound isn't stellar and it's not very loud. Also not drenched in reverb like the record. A lot of punk bands had shit equipment back in the day because they had no money, and this is often what live shows sounded like anyway. Everyone's used to a wall of highly engineered sound these days.

This is Joe Public speaking!

Nice! Woof!

This song didn't come out until Summer 1978

Fucking great

I feel alone in that I like the guitar sound here.So different from the record.

They were a great Pop band and this is a great Pop song.

fucking brilliant!

Fantastic version so Ill appreciate it for what it is but the 7 inch brought it to another level

To be honest, I always thought The Clash sounded best when they were just a bit out of tune and the treble was really high.

Me recuerdan a Eskorbuto!!

so punk!!! with distorsion is so easy, wanna see metallica playing whithout distorsion!!!!

Been as Lee Scratch Perry was involved I'd have loved it if they'd cut a version like this for a12" or whatever.. I don't think any of the compilations have anything like this on them

This is fucking cool

my god.

"C O N...Control!"...The Clash's greatest song ( followed closely by White Man in Hammersmith Palais)

As raw as this shit gets, Ladies n Gents!

Great though this is its really only a demo a work in progress a declaration of the intention of the song so to speak the finished product the single was brilliant , powerful ,strident, and emotional with a massive wall of sound that was totally justified this time round (sorry Sandy) and became the greatest punk single ever released