The Clash Live: Rock Revolution

[SurfaceUnits]

Showing on a PBS station near you - YMMV
A concert documentary about one of the most influential punks bands to emerge from the 70's. Performance footage from the mid-70s to the early '80's

WFYI 3 Tue, Mar 4
9:30 PM The Clash Live: Revolution Rock Record with TiVo
WFYI 3 Wed, Mar 5
2:30 AM The Clash Live: Revolution Rock Record with TiVo
WFYI 3 Thu, Mar 6
4:00 AM The Clash Live: Revolution Rock Record with TiVo
WFYI 3 Thu, Mar 13
11:00 PM The Clash Live: Revolution Rock Record with TiVo
WFYI 3 Fri, Mar 14
4:00 AM The Clash Live: Revolution Rock Record with TiVo


New 60-Minute Documentary Chronicles Live Performances From the Iconic Punk Pioneers at the Peak of Their Popularity -

THE CLASH LIVE: REVOLUTION ROCK is an electrifying new performance documentary film, compiling an extraordinary range of peak live concert and live studio performances and more from the Clash, the groundbreaking British band that defined and expanded the power of punk rock in the 1970s, 1980s and beyond. The program airs as part of the March 2008 pledge drive (check local listings) on PBS.


THE CLASH LIVE: REVOLUTION ROCK follows the transformation of the band, incorporating footage from all phases of the Clash's meteoric career, beginning with live-in-the-studio clips from 1979, crescendoing with triumphant concerts from clubland (London's The Music Machine, 1978) and theatres (the Lyceum, 1978, 1980) and climaxing with a transcendent blow-out performance at New York's Shea Stadium in 1982.


Formed in London during the first wave of punk-rock in 1976, the Clash, known by fans at the time as "The Only Band That Matters," became the most progressive and visionary rock band of its era, releasing five albums in six years, each a brave step into uncharted territory. Joe Strummer (guitar, vocals), Mick Jones (guitar, vocals), Paul Simonon (bass) and Topper Headon (drums) embraced the energy and confrontational attitude of punk. Refusing the limitations of any musical genre, the Clash incorporated elements of reggae, funk, dub, rap, hard rock and roots rockabilly into a continually evolving and challenging sound. Taking its name from the headlines of the day, the Clash wrote songs addressing the issues of class and race confronting the UK in the 1970s.


The Clash was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in January 2003, a month after the untimely passing of Joe Strummer, age 50, in December 2002.


Legacy Recordings will release a deluxe DVD edition of THE CLASH LIVE: REVOLUTION ROCK in March 2008.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1CwDATKs5c

[Indy]

Watching. Thanks! :thumbup:

[Cam]

AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :cry:

[emjaya]

AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :cry:

Buck up, little fella. The Jam are finally touring, sort of. Get all your mod gear out of mothballs and go and see them. ;)

[extramundane]

Buck up, little fella. The Jam are finally touring, sort of.

You mean the one with everyone except Paul Weller? That's not even a "sort of" Jam tour. It's pointless, kinda like that Fogerty-less Creedence Clearwater Revisited crap or The New Cars. :irked: :thumdown:

[JLMannin]

>. . . . . crescendoing . . . . . . .

Nothing is more annoying to me than taking a noun, tacking on -ing, and viola, you have a verb.

SurfaceUnits, I realize this was not your doing, you were just copying/pasting.

[G.]

Nothing is more annoying to me than taking a noun, tacking on -ing, and viola, you have a verb.

SurfaceUnits, I realize this was not your doing, you were just copying/pasting.


crescendoing with triumphant concerts from clubland (London's The Music Machine, 1978) and theatres (the Lyceum, 1978, 1980) and climaxing with a transcendent blow-out performance

Well, what do YOU call what happens right before climaxing?

I myself think that crescendoing works just fine, when all is said and done.

[Ankf00]

Nothing is more annoying to me than taking a noun, tacking on -ing, and viola, you have a verb.

welcome to the internets.

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[emjaya]

You mean the one with everyone except Paul Weller? That's not even a "sort of" Jam tour. It's pointless, kinda like that Fogerty-less Creedence Clearwater Revisited crap or The New Cars. :irked: :thumdown:

Well, I did say "sort of". :gomer:


The Clash was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in January 2003, a month after the untimely passing of Joe Strummer, age 50, in December 2002.

Didn't the lead singer of the Dave Clark Five die recently, just before the band was about to be inducted into the Hall of Fame? :saywhat:

Edit: Yes, he did! Mike Smith. Link (http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iZknsIwTKu37gf3SZ10V6CjsPn3Q)

He had been preparing to travel to New York to be inducted into the American Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame with his band mates on March 10.

[Michaelhatesfans]

Well, what do YOU call what happens right before climaxing?


(beavis and butthead laugh)

[nissan gtp]

Tivo set :thumbup:

on topic, got tickets for upcoming Carbon/Silicon show (http://www.carbonsiliconinc.com/gigs.aspx) -- Mick Jones and former Generation X member Tony James :cool:

[Ankf00]

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[KaBoom21]

Adrian Belew tonight. Gutter Twins (Dulli/Lanegan), British Sea Power and Stephen Malkmus later this month.

The Jam sans Weller = :rofl:

[SurfaceUnits]

Nothing is more annoying to me than taking a noun, tacking on -ing, and viola, you have a verb.

SurfaceUnits, I realize this was not your doing, you were just copying/pasting.
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