The Clash - Chaos In New York (Full Album) 

En 1985 a mis 14 años escuche en la radio x primera vez a los Clash y fue una conmocion para mi,y en ese instante supe q esa musica seria parte d la banda sonora d mi vida!aca estoy a mis 51 disfrutando d esta joyita,aguante los Clash!!

A residency for two weeks in New York at the birth of hip-hop. One of the greatest bands ever.

Yes, I was there for the riot! Tons of fun! I was in my junior year of High School and we had bought four Ticketron tickets from a scalper. Stood in line around the building like good little punks until the cops on horses told us to split and we all started running around in the street yelling and throwing shit. Came back next week and saw the show and it was amazing! Who remembers the warm up band made up of small children called The Brattles? The Clash played Radio Clash faster than the record and it was killer. All those kids at school were wasting their time with corny shit like Led Zep and Lynyrd Skynyrd and the hippie Dead. A Clash riot in Manhattan was the perfect place for a sixteen year old punk to be!

I know everybody writes things like what I am about to write, but I assure you that this time IT IS TRUE(!): I was there!!! Somehow, some way, my dear old Dad obtained tickets for one of these Bond's shows. I was in my mid-teens and The Clash was one of my favorite bands at the time. I still do not know how it happened but my Dad started listening to The Clash and, eventually, became a fan as well. He was in his mid-30's so it is not a reach to understand how he could have been hooked by these guys. And hooked is exactly what occurred to him. He freaking loved them. So, he was in NYC on business, saw that The Clash was playing a series of shows, and went to some high-powered friends of his in the entertainment biz, and lo and behold had 2 tickets waiting for us at the box office. I could not believe it. He called me the night before the show, explained to me that he had the tickets, and that I had to catch a bus from Boston (where I was going to school) to NYC asap. Which I did. Now, that particular stretch of late spring/early summer was brutally hot. I am not kidding. NYC was heating up the way only NYC can heat up, the sidewalks were throwing up that weird, hot stench and everybody was walking around with wet clothing and quick tempers. Just getting inside of Bond's was a task. It was PACKED in there with sweltering bodies and rotten, booze breath. I had some woman of about 40 hitting on me. She was little, pretty, and she was smoking tiparillos. I was not attracted at all. The opening act was GrandMaster Flash and the Furious Five. They opened with "White Lines (Don't Do It!)" They only made it through 3-4 songs before the audience starting chucking beer bottles at them. I guess a rock audience circa 1980's was unprepared for what they were bringing. They still aren't. Eventually the lights went down. The theme to "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" could be heard coming from the P.A. The lights came on and there stood our heroes. It almost was too much for my teen-aged brain to process. I had a hard time accepting the fact that I was standing close to and breathing in the same air as The Clash. Now on this particular night The Clash did not open with London Calling. Instead, they opened with I'm So Bored With The USA. I may have been only 15 years old but the irony was not lost on me. It has been almost 40 years since that night, and much of my memories regarding what transpired that night has evaporated away into the ether. Almost everything. The feelings still remain. That awesome feeling one experiences when one has no other desire to be anywhere else but where one is, that certainty that nothing else occurring anywhere else on earth could be more important, more relevant, than what is occurring directly in front of one's eyes. I know that I am not expressing myself as clearly as the subject demands, but no matter. If you have stayed with me this long, you know what I mean: it was one of those nights you experience in your adolescence when, emerging from the other side, you are not the same, and you know it.

This live version of "Complete Control" is unparalleled.

This is Bloody Good. That drumming throughout, the rest on top, Best Band Ever.

I was there on the opening night. Front row against the rail; otherwise I wouldn't have made it. So crowded you couldn't move. People were passing out left and right and we were handing them over the rail to the bouncers behind it and they were getting them out. I took probably 6 rolls of pics, sold a couple to local magazines, and in my itinerant travel days I lost the pics and negatives. I saw 4 or 5 more of those shows too.

Thankfully, I saw them 8 months later in Australia. So glad I made it.

日本のクラッシュに心酔する皆んな! 最高のライブを聴いたね！ セットリスト超最高！ 演奏ノリと維ぎが良くて飛ばす事が出来ないよ！ 俺の親友とめちゃくちゃ共感したい！ あまりに良くて初めてコメントした。 レベルミュージックのパンクバージョンは熟成してこの中にある！！

I recorded this on a TDK tape when it was played on the King Buiscut Flour Hour one Halloween night. I played it over and over and over, buying Clash albums as I could afford them based on the songs I liked most. A truly influential hour of music for me.

Fond memories of taking the D train into Manhattan to watch bands like The Clash, The Pretenders and others in the Village....

Saw two of those shows. Sometimes these days I feel like I came out the wrong end of a wormhole, so rapidly did I go from there to here.

The only band that matters. They seen the future.

Thank you for uploading.

I was too bloody young, 14, dwelling in hell in Connecticut, amerikkka to know about this or them. But, Music Lover I am, I saw a Mick Jones and Topper Headon less Clash for that dreadful 'cut the crap' tour. Sublime. Also got to see Mick and Don Letts' B.A.D. for their second album twice. Mick shook my hand and palmed me his guitar pick. I didn't get the original lineup but, if that ain't close enough, what is?!!!😉😊😆

Went in feeling that nice AC. Left drenched in sweat.

Wow!

Excellenta

Joe Strrummmer Vive! La lucha sigue!

Was this The Clash at the very peak of their powers? A magnificent piece of recording. Congratulations on sourcing it and thanks for posting it.

I missed this show and regretted it. They were the voice of anarchy and deservedly so - the best of punk rock.

WOW it' s smazing

Why do I feel like this was when Mick and Joe weren’t seeing eye2eye. Mick is leaving Joe hanging with no backing vocals. Joe is out there EARNIN’ that $$ yo!😂😂😂😂✊🏾 I love the Clash

かっこいいのー

Classic Clash His mother, Anna Mackenzie (1915-1986), was the daughter of a crofter and was born and raised in Bonar Bridge; she later became a nurse. Close to Bonar Bridge you have ClashMore , ClashBan, ClashCoig and ClashNessie so Joe must of created The Clash close to his Mother Life very good

I remember hearing about it and not being able to even consider going. I was MAD. This video could only be cooler if it had the footage.

where the hell was I? I'm the punk professor and I lived 2 miles from Bonds. I'm a spazz sometimes.

I saw them July 82 at Inverness ice rink, my first concert, would like to know what the set list was that night, thanks for sharing this recording

Recuerdos de juventud . Magníficos y siempre me acuerdo de mi gran amigo PASKY

Thank you for posting this! People may not realize what a lifetime hero Joe Strummer was: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Strummer

Saw clash in asbury park nj 82 hottest sweatiest experience in my 61 years of life performance I believe better than bonds I did not attend

Superb Professor The Wheat is too thin , How apt for the Now Time. Food shortages in Western Europe Like yea Thank you for putting out the history of why all the Bonds gigs , the history behind why The CLASH had to work 10 times to put their message out . 😊🏴‍☠️

I remember they had a Saturday afternoon show among the shows at Bonds.

Well, I didn't get to go NYC then. So stop yer sobbing. Looks ungainly. I'm digging this in 2022 like it's shiny & new

Just finished this GREAT SET. Were they playing most if not all the songs in another key, off key? I can hear Mick playing a different guitar than the studio albums. Just curious...

i was there...

Saw them at pier 84

Live at Bonds.

en uruguay!

Prof Billie, how come the full album This is Dub Clash won't play in the US?

I STILL think it's June 8th. Both 8th & 9th were professionally recorded by CBS..This is the 8th ?

GB

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Non è che te lo vendi per caso?

They usually sounded much better than this!

Paul is cool as fuck. But he ain’t no singer !

Shit sound.

wow, the clash sucks.