Monday, July 7, 2008

Rock The Casbah

We really need to get the ball rolling on legalizing the use of testicles for currency because I would give my middle nut to see The Clash live. Of course this won't happen becasue, aside from the testicle for currency thing--which isn't going to happen, regardless of what those damn Liberterians promise--Clash lead singer Joe Strummer died from a heart attack five years ago.
I could go on and write for an hour about how great I thought they were, but as of right now, time is limited. I spent the last 45 minutes trying to find the perfect Clash video--and I couldn't choose one so I picked one at random.
"Rock The Casbah" was the only song of theirs to make it onto the Billboard Top 10 list in America (reaching #8 in 1982). The video for "Casbah" was their most popular (understand that The Clash broke up not too long after MTV came around--they never benifited from the channel and only made low budget videos).
Topper Headon was the most well known drummer of The Clash but is absent from this video after being kicked out of the band due to growing drug problems (the rumor is, that Headon wrote the main piano riff on the song but wasn't specifically credited). This opened the door for Terry Chimes to return to the band for a third tenure (he was the band's original drummer in 1976).
Much to the dismay of the band, this song was the first song played on "Armed Forces Radio" at the start of the Gulf War in 1991. The song also managed to be named the #20 "Conservative Rock Song Of All Time" by The National Review. The sound you hear right now is Joe Strummer turning in his grave.
Well, enough chit chat...I give you The Clash's "Rock The Casbah"...enjoy...

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