I got violently high and watched this. I've never had such a calming and intensely mind-blowing experience in my life. It felt like I was right there in that theatre. Like Joe Strummer was staring right through my soul. Long live the Clash *
That’s how I felt during Somebody Got Murdered during the Combat Rock tour stop in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. There were screens behind the band that projected the yellow lines on a street remarking a dead body. And, during the pause between “Somebody….,got murdered” there were explosive sounds. Between Mick’s sweet sounding lead vocals, Joe’s growls, and the effects, I was glued to my seat, mesmerized, but slightly traumatized when the gunshots would crack. Best show ever, for me. My parents bought tickets, my older sister drove, because I was only 13. Great folks and older sib!
I remember watching a bootleg video of this not long after the performance and thinking how brilliant it was. Fast forward 40 years and it still is just as fantastic. The only band that matter(ed). RIP Joe.
Some people mistakenly think songs that don’t get played on the radio are “underrated”. Nothing underrated about this song. It’s a classic Clash track, beloved by millions for over 40 years.
Not always. there were times their sound was obviously not done correctly, and it was noticeable. The band was good, but just to make a valid point, they were not professionally good as consistently as some other bands, for example like the Rolling Stones, who never gave their audience anything but very professional preparation and sound.
Performed 3 weeks after I was born. Love Joe's ad-libbing. Tweet tweet tweet tweet! Spit everywhere, heavy bass, Mick being a badass, tight drum performance...this is my favorite of their live acts. The dark colors really add to the mystique of this beautiful, intense anti-war song.
I saw Joe Strummer with The Mescaleros shortly before he passed away. Half the show were Clash classics but unfortunately too young to have seen the real deal #ripJoe
@@dieterdemol9622 yeah....I felt like I was " in history ". Normally bands of that style ( punkish )and are are associated with small venues but they seemed to resonate better in arena. I do think that the reverberating bass was key to that.
After all these years i'm still so deep into that Clash period.. post sandinsta! thoroughly in improvisation, for better and for worse. but it's still pure Clash from 82 before Topper left the band... That's freaking great !
Vastly underated album Sandanista,god bless Joe ,would love to see Mick bring the Clash back for a tour in tribute to Joe, my fav of all the Punk Bands,could have been as big as the Stones.
Yeah the 'war' inspired multiple creatives and artists as well as Hollywood movies due to the audacity of it, especially afterward in the 70's when people realized how politically driven, un-strategic and ultimately profitable it was. I think the Clash have always been sincere in their passion about it though, which is of great note considering this was a decade later and the British were not involved. They also wrote the song 'Straight to hell' on combat rock which is an even more intense Vietnam song. That aside the Hollywood movie 'Apocalypse Now' inspired the song or the name of this song, which resulted this magnificent live performance. I love the improvised line 'gonna get a California haircut and burn some children to death'. RIP Joe
A band at their pinnacle we'll never know what they may have have achieved had the drugs not fucked topper up around this time. Still just need to be thankful for what they did do but from a selfish point of view wish they could have been around in the 90s when i first got into bands
