Comments on: Michael Geoffrey Jones plays "Train in Vain" in a public library

By: Sparg

Sparg — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:50:00 +0000

Saw them the same tour just down the road in San Antonio.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:05:00 +0000

I believe that, in aeronautical terms, when something goes that far over your head, it’s technically in orbit.

By: Chuk

Chuk — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:31:00 +0000

Holy crap NBC sucks. We watched the CTV one (what with being Canadian and all) and from lists I’ve seen online, the only thing we missed was the second George Michael song. (I guess that ‘missed’ should be in quotation marks…)

By: politeruin

politeruin — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:26:00 +0000

Love this version myself…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rERR0am8HS0

With a cold as well!

By: alfanovember

alfanovember — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:33:00 +0000

I dunno, London Calling is a pretty bleak song. It would be like Americans celebrating with “Born In The USA”.

…Oh wait, we do that all the time.

By: filebunch

filebunch — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:27:00 +0000

Perfect!

I miss Joe.

By: filebunch

filebunch — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:26:00 +0000

Huge Clash/B.A.D. fan and had that “they are too old” mentality until I bit the bullet and saw B.A.D. live at Brooklyn Bowl. They were better than 99% of the “kids” playing out there now.

I miss Strummer. Could you imagine the Clash closing the Olympics with London Calling? I would have dismissed that only a couple of years ago but after what I saw last night it would have rocked.

Check this out. http://youtu.be/hp8v__sDemQ

By: McGreens

McGreens — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:18:00 +0000

If you also didn’t get George Michael performing his *new single* (!?) and Beady Eye murdering ‘Wonderwall’ I’d say NBC did you a favour.

By: jbond

jbond — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:46:00 +0000

That’s not “some random old dude”, that’s yet another “balding old git”! As one to another.

Everyone has there favourite but my ear worm is still “Lost in the Supermarket”. I seem to hear it every time I go to Tescos.

By: tomdarch

tomdarch — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Wait! Ray Davies played at the Closing ceremonies? #NBCFail Also, wasn’t Muse doing something as part of it? Not from what I saw on US coverage. (I’m not fond of Muse, but if they played, I’d like to have seen it.)

Crap – those bastards went from Madness to the cover of Parklife to The Pet Shop Boys (West End Girls – a waaay complicated choice for this show – kudos) to the boy band to Stomp, then to commercials. When they came back from commercials, the athletes were entering.

Apparently, we didn’t get the Muse or (to quote the Wikipedia article), “Ray Davies, Elbow, Kaiser Chiefs, Ed Sheeran (with Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, Mike Rutherford of Genesis and Richard Jones of The Feeling)” Nada, zip, zilch.

Bastards.

By: tomdarch

tomdarch — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 05:55:00 +0000

I forget where I saw video of a recent performance (Coachella?) – BAD is still killing it live. I don’t know if they are currently touring, but if you get a chance to see them live, do it!

By: dirktanzarian

dirktanzarian — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:37:00 +0000

Ummmm…Morgane….Did you not see Eric Idle singing “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”?

By: Ambiguity

Ambiguity — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:29:00 +0000

Crap, that makes me feel old.

If you saw them (like I did), then you are old. He’s old. It happens.

But he’s still cool. Cool changes with age.

By: Ambiguity

Ambiguity — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:27:00 +0000

You’re mistaking Mic Jones for Joe Strummer, who started as a busker with a ukelele (true story).

By: doniphon

doniphon — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 01:54:00 +0000

Didn’t someone once say:

“Weddings, parties, anything… And bongo-jazz a speciality!”

By: voiceinthedistance

voiceinthedistance — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 01:38:00 +0000

Obviously no “random old dude”.

Duh! It’s jolly old St. Mick.

By: morgane

morgane — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 01:32:00 +0000

man, he’s better than EVERYTHING (except Elbow and The Who and Ray Davies – even if his singing was way off) at that horrible Olympics closing show. As good as the Opening Ceromony was, tonite was bloody fucking awful.

By: deathisastar

deathisastar — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 01:01:00 +0000

It’s striking that Mick Jones looks genuinely happy, not just in this video.

And what kind of idiot keeps shouting when goddamn Mick Jones is singing?

By: wrybread

wrybread — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:51:00 +0000

Personally I wish we could get past the insistence that music should only be made by people under 30.

By: AwesomeRobot

AwesomeRobot — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:45:00 +0000

Is he drinking beer in a library?

By: Noddy Ninetythree

Noddy Ninetythree — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:35:00 +0000

thank you. completely changed where my head has been all day. now off to drive my cheesy german car with the only band that matters blaring ridiculously loud out the windows. (and yes mark, you are older than me… but not by much and I had an older sister who took me to see the clash in austin ’82)

By: Andy Ward Innit

Andy Ward Innit — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:01:00 +0000

I saw BAD play their return tour last year at The Academy, still definitely got it.

By: Mike McDermott

Mike McDermott — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:59:00 +0000

That’s not just some public library – that’s HIS Rock and Roll Public Library:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/5015062/The-Rock-and-Roll-Public-Library-Mick-Jones-of-The-Clashs-memorabilia.html

By: gellfex

gellfex — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:37:00 +0000

If you haven’t, check out both “West Way of the World” & “The future is Unwritten” Clash documentaries. In the former, Mick says in a interview shortly before Joe died that he wished he had been mature enough to keep the band going. Give you the sniffles.

I’ll argue London Calling is the best double album ever released, and they wrote and recorded it in a few weeks.

By: ROSSINDETROIT

ROSSINDETROIT — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:29:00 +0000

Go for it, Mark. I’m 99% vinyl lately and it’s great. Fixing up turntables for family members who have orphan records, too. Some things need the hiss and crackle that we’re familiar with.

By: Mark_Frauenfelder

Mark_Frauenfelder — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:11:00 +0000

I’ll bet you $5 I’m older than you are.

By: Gutterpuke

Gutterpuke — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:08:00 +0000

A “random old dude?”

Dont forget, all of us original Clash fans are “old dudes” as are the remaining band members.

Show some respect for your elders, ya punk.

By: Mark_Frauenfelder

Mark_Frauenfelder — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:04:00 +0000

Pescovitz has been re-buying The Clash on vinyl lately and loving it. I am going to pull out my old 101ers albums soon and give it a listen.

By: flappy

flappy — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:02:00 +0000

Shouldn’t he be a girl with a ukelele?

By: ROSSINDETROIT

ROSSINDETROIT — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:59:00 +0000

I had London Calling on the turntable this morning.