The Clash Acceptance Speech at the 2003 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony 

I told him that in person about a year before he died

Sometimes a band appears and makes all the difference..

@lacennapassidean What a bunch of sellouts here! Not the punk thing to do!

He was actually the coolest looking one in the band.

...and the subject of the greatest LP cover in Rock n Roll EVER (Thank You Pennie Smith).

@@jerrygilbert6733 I have that picture on a black t-shirt, with white writing, from 1980ish. I keep it in a drawer, and cannot part with it!

Topper couldn't make it, I believe was in rehab for his back pain

Well, this garage band is grateful to Mick from The Clash to Big Audio Dynamite. They've been making a difference in my life since the 70's, and it's no wonder that the band my friends and I started years ago and still play in is a Clash cover band that also does reggae songs.

That is a great line from their most under rated and most experimental album. I do and don't act the way I was brought up. The Clash opened my budding Liberal eyes at a very early age. I was 6th grade first hearing the Clash and 7th grade buying Sandanista!

The only other top punk band of that era!

@@roserankin6441 Bullshit, The Pistols were utter wank

@@roserankin6441 and Ramones also..

Well, his cousin is Grant Shapps, UK's Secretary of Defense and former chair of the Tory Party!

The original is actually Sonny Curtis

I had tickets to that show but my parents sent me to treatment instead. 🤬🤬🤬

Don Lett's aswell

Tooper?

@@sirandrelefaedelinoge Topper!

Version should and please let it read version as in Alan version of California but Mr version if you hear me wake up rise up and demand order because at the das office in San Diego they can barely answer a phone are unable to transfer calls and their answer to your call is to lose their temper and say they can't do anything at all mention a das name they really get touchy won't act logically well no poise or politeness or realisation of an emergency I told them their were bombs and live firings going off on gamma st near my street summer Stephans answer well here secretary acted for her couldn't take a message hung up the phone and loud heard shot pops in the background immediately called 911 well they are often the same they promptly hang up though this is illustrative of a September 11 situation summer Stephan fails to call-in the national guard or military speaks in an accent understood by few and doesn't understand English like her workers do under her non existent leadership my neighborhood is a war field yes a war zone live fire bombs strangers again and again trying to take down planes so wake up district attorney I care about you deeply as my 911 calls say you need to get organised and support San Diego and the USA you prove by your negligence oh yes you do do that you support a nation and you support treason and crime against america and San Diego too for you do nothing to protect the people your inaction or your collaboration with enemies of the united States has left you full traitor fully radicalized ready to challenge democracy and threaten the USA's freedom by your inaction again and again and again inviting your friends and allies I'll state their number here 911 .and wake up please you are in charge of people lawyers and sheriff's please take more than a moment look at someone please they carry loaded weapons they can and will eventually injure someone or many you are inviting violent crime you are asking for shoot out just to make your name ma'am there have all ready been riots which you welcome in allahs name now I'd like to say something to you a nice memory too I remember you with your friends yes I do in the 1990s near wells Fargo Bank you were nice and said hello and Robert Stein dda of the third strikes team and Kim lagotta now a judge well ask them for advice call up the retired and try to lead again and support the USA not your others callup from retirement there must be some good in them Paul j pfingst of highs Fletcher and Mack Paul greenwood formerly of the 3 strikes team in the 1990s then eldrer abuse unit I guess now retired Jeff diesel of the van damm case Steve walter maybe of gangs or major violators unit Mr running or maybe contact his son Mr James koerber he can be kind of weird no insult implied at least he shows up to court yes felony arraignment loaded up with files well yes I've witnessed him lose a jury trial oh he lost his temper but he knows how to get on with it because he shows up early and makes a stand against crime and I guess he is happy in his work often breaks out in song well at least he's dedicated that's all I can remember so gather up your people you've spent enough time avoiding a growing violent riot type situation and time is running out and your representatives fail to listen so try to go on the news and support at last San Diego and stop accepting a check for which you do not earn not protecting your community and letting it burn. Earn your pay and stand up and represent the people and police and stop worshipping you satan for that is clearly what your doing for if you fail to decide you still have made a choice your choice by not answering your calls a clear vote for terrorism for thats what you represent a war against lawful life. Criminal negligence can and will be prosecuted and often is oh what a scandal im proud to support my police and always have I have a perfectly clean criminal record with your record of inaction you have or will have blood your hands don't let it go that far please ask for help you're obviously deranged many times I have requested the national city police to check up on you you don't show your face or represent yourself publicly please stop inviting to San Diego county which love all your Sharia laws violence and crime and the spectre of terrorism you clearly fully support and love. Thanks.

Diesel should read disk as in Jeff diesel also try to contact the judge Mr deddeh he knows Paul j pfingst where I happened to be drinking they were with woody Clark who has ties to England like the retired Mr Paul r greenwood please call them up they once cared about San Diego I bet they still do let's work together look how much I've tried to help you here resting in my bed yes with covid again please don't forget to wish me well because I think you with God's help and the help of your collegues and police begin again and represent San Diego and not the middle East except to help them financially help them stabilise and respect their people for there is good in everyone. Oh yes thank you to the the people formerly of Iraq for they have helped feed me by delivering me food and drink and have helped and given me transportation safely delivered and returned home again with bags of groceries sometimes have had a very hard time smear fatal car accident in January has really kept me down they call themselves Chaldeans well please appreciate them too I always tell them about safety issues and offer them help in an emergency they always listen and you don't again wake up and appreciate these people who have kept the city running myself included too again please support america once and for all and stop your more than a flirtation with power and politics abroad a I can't even guess what their paying you or promising but wake up again their are tough problems here that need solving still you invite more terrorism and unlawful violence flirting with political power and political clout you'll never have for you don't represent america or its laws the shooting and violence of bombings and near aircraft misses yes ms Stephan of radicalized nature I've had to direct planes in like ordered by George bush SR when the air traffic controllers all fled when during desert Storm yes a military crisis because all they wanted was money upfront when the government told them to hold on they'd have some in two weeks no they couldn't wait instead they exposed themselves as worshippers of satan and suddenly were nearly nude in all sort is yoga like positions doing sexual things so repulsive to my mind in fact God blessed me and made me nearly blind I could see enough to direct air traffic which I did with some help from others like George Roger waters no crashes yes a little scary well gods words I state again this time in German please allow me to translate arbeit Macht frei work will set you free right stand up get to work and protect America's finest city do your best that's what really counts not your constant answer inaction that leads you to be clumsy and daft y have very poor speaking and communicating skills like your 911 operators you're not aware of this listen didn't you hear me I said arbeit macht frei time to wake up and hire out of work voice actors to answer 911 calls s or other dispatches because they keep a hanging up like your people do or they try to argue like fools do an the number one evidence of an out of control situation is when they can't and fail to report to or reach a superior cannot state atleslast their names represent themselves only with a number like fascist germany and guess what yesterday some woman cop bless her soul shielded up with fake eyes of unnatural colour no perpetration on an 85 plus degree day a bloodless face with very little expression an inability to state her name at all when I requested over three times and she kept insisting to be identified by a number then unable she couldn't or refused to write clearly I finally had to tell her partner she's very dangerous with a gun don't you dare let her use she can't control her mind a cop needs to know how to write English and to know basic well all numbers which she didn't she told me to call 911 I told them they were worse than her almost being the same not expressing an American way or language or respect of the law or basic numbers or ABCs well this lack of education and her armed with a gun well a clue here pay attention a very dangerous disaster a f very fatal situation alert the staff Sergeant and put her on permanent vacation so she can start with preschool because even a preschoolers knows name numbers and ABCs and if not is smart enough not to carry a loaded gun not able to accept or be guided by someone with cognitive though because well wake up I outranked her I could and did state my name she could not .

Version should read bersin.

He was actually the one in the band arguing hardest in favor of performing at the ceremony. The one who argued hardest against it was Paul Simonon, who decided to come to the ceremony in order to pay tribute to Joe Strummer.

They did accept the hall of fame just because joe strummer died, I don't really know how to say it because I don't speak english

The Sex Pistols were inducted in 2006, but they didn't attend.

@@SUP3RKAPON That's not true. Their induction was announced before Joe's passing and he was going to attend and they were planning to perform at the ceremony too. In fact, there was talk of The Clash reuniting at that point, the previous year Mick joined Joe's band to play a few songs at one of their shows.

@@4ctmam that hurts

They started as a punk band but evolved so far past the genre. It's a lot like the Talking Heads, they came out of punk but by Sandanista or Fear Of Music you hear influences from all over the world and a hunger for studio experimentation.