This is my favorite performance of theirs. Yeah, Paul's eye candy but Joe's passion, movements, phrasings, whispers....sigh...he still lives for me

I love it. Mick acting snotty, Joe going nutts, Paul in the holey Shirt So Great!

Haha, Paul looks a bit annoyed when Mick starts complaining about how they've been treated in Germany. I seriously love those guys ! When I saw them live for the first time at a Gorillaz gig last week I seriously thought I was gonna have a heart attack the moment Mick and Paul entered the stage. Best day I had in a long time ! The Clash will always be the only band that matters !

One cannot help but get pumped up and energized after seeing this.

Saw them 3 times - one of the best live acts I've seen in my life.

Mick's fucking bitching at the beginning hahahaha, classic. what a fucking guy "never want to come back here again, unless we're at war"

i would kill to be in a world where refined music is booed and raw good music is applauded

the best years of my life (big smile)

Forever The Clash Will Be And The Only True Punk Rockers

Great bassline of Paul Simonon,reggae punk

Great video and band interaction! Thanks for posting this.

Yip cud binge on this version just like the studio version too _- my fav

I wanted this bonus on my dvd! This is great!

No way Paul says the older people were like “Nazis to us” as the translation states. He said they’re “nasty to us”

Legendary video and performance!

speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed Joe is extremely badass

I love the bas in this one!

Awesome Telecaster sound here.

from what I understand this black telecaster was a loaner. joe's famous telecaster was originally sunburst color. I also used to think this telecaster was his famous beat up one. read Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer by Chris Salewicz, theres a lot of good info.

i love joe strummer red jacket... has anyone pictures of this jacket?

"Cocaine's a hell of a drug" - Rick James

@AdamRamone1234 Actually this guitar wasnt a loaner, he had it through out the clash, it was his main guitar through 77 and 78, he later stenciled noise, boss and bullets on it

It's at the extras on Rude Boy DVD.

yup, and there never will be another band like these guys :(

I got a jacket like Joe's from a shop in Japan as well as many other items the Clash used to wear but at this point they are not carrying Clash type clothing at the moment.

amazing performance, too bad the camera cuts away from Mick right when he really starts rocking. love Joe's strut too!

joe takes the mic at :37, and pulls some great faces.

strange, really strange...on my DVD it is. I don't know why it isn't at yours too.

Fucking incredible, what a find. Fight the power 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

flawless- man

Wish I would’ve been there. Also wish the sound person would’ve turned Paul up

This is classic tropical punk!

Yea My Son Loves The Ramones And His Only 2 Years Old :)

that last remark was in reply to moonos21 btw...although it hasn't printed like that!

Epic.

ive been trying but non of my friends like good music

I want that jacket strummer has on.

My God, I only get the RUDE BOY - VHS-Videeeeo! (NOOO BonusMaterial! Fuckin' shit) But in the first time I've seen the Film sometimes when I was 18 years old on TV (sometimes, early in the morning, maybee 1 oder 2 o'clock.) THIS BAND WAS REALLY ELECTRIFYING! This is pure soul and pure energy! Best Band in the world, still. So sad, that Joe's dead, but I take comfort in the old songs, the mescaleros and Mick's new band, C/Si

One of the most intense live guitar solos ever 3:07

indeed, cant forget the Ramones

i would die to be there drunk and playing lead

where did you get it

@Blahpunkifyed it's made from old army camouflage netting paul used to buy at army surplus stores and stitch together

Why does young Joe Strummer kinda remind me of a hard rocking Johnny Cash? :) Punk and Blues go together

Do a little speed there, Joe?

i had a shirt like Paul's back then. :D (bringing the conversation to a 'lower' level..

This is a great video, first time I've ever seen it. I only saw them once in real life, and I still love them and want to be in that band. I can see Joe is playing a Telecaster, but is it a Fender Squier? I don't know and it doesn't matter, this vid shows they were a really tight band, this must be from 1977/78 they are or just about at their peak. I an see why Joe was called Strummer from 3.37 - 3.55 about a hundread strums appx. There must be more rare footage out there, put it on 'ere, ok

where the hell can i get that jacket that joe's wearing he looks so cool in it?

No on drums is Nicky not Terry!! I have that video home.

Thats Topper alright

And Jonesie is hitting the (propper) minor on top of hit. That's the most punk rock polychord ever(!)

Im not sure if they were stoned in this video, but the clash did take a lot of drugs, and joe was a huge pothead. read the book by Chris Salewicz, its called Redemptin Song The Ballad of Joe Strummer. I learned a lot from that book.

rude boys crap but the live bits in it is amazing

did you buy urs in the UK, because i bought mine in here in America, is it not on the U.S. Realease

they are soo stoned

@airburst88 what a great comment !!!!!!!

Pictures on stage from the Notting Hill riots. Well sound those lads.

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@BenHughesLlan you should make your own! Thats what they did...

@sikkinixx82 That`s right!!!

really, i have Rude Boy but its not on there

Just a reminder this is a cover. Junior Mervin.

erm.. i meant joe. its a wonder he can actually bloody play

@AdamRamone1234 Yes but he painted his sunburst black, and i think thats what he is reffering to

Paul Simonon doesn't SAY Nazi as in the translation here. He calls the people, older German people NASTY. GEMEIN. LOL

I'm partial to Topper of course, but Chimes was just fine. I saw him do Safe European Home and he had plenty of foot skills going. Nothing like Topper though. What bugs me here is that Strummer keeps playing a major chord during the verse (the higher chord), when it should be minor. Damn punk rockers....

wow. i caught that too. i can't believe they translated 'nasty' into 'Nazis'!! that is a huge mistake. O_o

Fucking dope!!!

My cousin John

maybe not stoned but i suspect some one likes speed XDDD

Happy Joe's birthday everyone

uh subllime? but anymore after them?

I don't understand all this talk of The Clash being posers. It's all punk no matter how I see it. Although they're a little more polished compared to a lot of the bands from the time I don't think that discredits them from being any less punk, which just sounds ridiculous to say the least. They weren't afraid to experiment with other influences & styles of music, & I think them being comfortable enough with themselves & their musicianship to venture out & do some reggae/jazz/funk/whatever else is pretty punk in my opinion. And I like a lot of the bands from the time like Wire, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Sex Pistols, Black Flag, DK, etc., & I think the clash is just as important as any of those bands.

If he did, I would have loved to be the guy who pick it up for him.

Original Dillinger version rules, of course. Strummer on point, Mick still not had the balls to actually cut his 'kin hippy hair, and as it's in deutshland, no gobbing.

@Twaalfstrepen Joe loved speed, mick was heavily into cocaine at this time, he almost died several times, paul was MAD about marijuana, and topper was a heroin addict

@MardyBum161 here fucking here

pills, anyone?

R.I.P Joe Strummer

honestly who the fuck cares if they used drugs or not? I mean who doesnt? especially if your in a band. They are a bloody good band && thats what matters. Also we can all agree (i hope) that even if they did use drugs the drugs werent the primary work force.

@AdamRamone1234 they're all spun out of they're heads. look at the other interviews while they're in germany. if you don't think they're on speed, maybe you don't know enough about drugs or drug people....

besides, look at mick jones hair, they must have been smoking pot, ha

Dead Kennedys were far and above but the Clash is still great of course.

its because everyone is out for the money

@Twaalfstrepen true, this isant an interview at the bonds shows when they were prob all loaded on coke

@PBANDSNOW and @ msgorgons have got it pretty much all right! all very true, sadly paul is hilarious. mick is all like - FUCK THIS PLACE, paul is like - no, i like germany! it looks really great! he's supposed to be the more intimidating one of everyone, but paul is so sweet - like in rude boy when he's excited about california and hes being told to STFU. lol um.. HOLY SHIT at mick in this vid, he looks waaaaaaay off. good god.

you dont know too much yourself to come out with that statement. joesramone has it pretty much right i think on the drugs front. as somebody mentioned already the chris salewicz book can hip you to a lot of detail. another good source is johnny green's book (if you didn't know, he was their road manager from 77-80ish), lots of drug stories in that! just out of interest, what makes you think they were such abstainers?

They have destroyed Jah work!

Re: all this talk about "true punk". I'm a HUGE fan of The Clash, but they were essentially poseurs. Joe was in the 101ers pre-Clash, who were an R&B-inspired "pub band" and Mick was in a glam rock band pre-Clash. They saw "punk" and jumped on the bandwagon like the rest of England did after seeing The Ramones. The most punk rock guy in The Clash was Keith Levene, and he left right away and wound up in Public Image Ltd with John Lydon (Johnny Rotten); a band more "punk" than the Sex Pistols.

before even buyinga guitar. joe strummer got kicked out of college for lsd and marijuana, they all did all sorts of drugs

Not really. Biafra wishes he could be as great as Joe. The Clash beat out The Dead Kennedys anyday.

I agree that the clash were posers, in essence, they did embody the punk spirit, but punk wasn't their sound, they just used it as the mode to perform and present themselves. lyrically and technically on a completely different level than punk, but aesthetically completely punk. Nothing against them though, they just new how to really brandish that image, and they did it well. sex pistols, black flag, public image, dead Kennedys were real punk in image, sound and attitude. clash just in image and sound

besides, look at mick jones hair, they must have been smoking pot, ha