Probably a bad picture to accompany the link, since you'll be getting the Pogues without Shane, but it's such a fun picture I can't help it.
Sprint on over to Jim's blog and get yourself some live Joe and the Pogues. No Shane, but, as Jim says, it's "splendid" :)
Bring Me The Heads: The Pogues & Joe Strummer - Live, Dublin, 16.12.1991
Also, if you want info on the last post, check out entirety of the fabulous Chairman Ralph's comment
Other highlights include Mick's acoustic guitar work on "English Civil War" (which is pretty easy to pick out against Joe's choppy rhythmic style), and "Jail Guitar Doors," and "Koka Kola," among the tightest, tautest versions I've ever heard...while "Armagideon Time" is starting to take its own identity in the set (thanks to Mickey Gallagher's swirling organ rolls, and Topper's rhythmic flourishes: he understood dub like few other drummers did, before or since).
One other feature to bear in mind: of the 22 songs, six are from LONDON CALLING, an album that wouldn't appear for another three or four months (December '79/January '80, UK/US versions, respectively)...can you imagine a major band devoting nearly a third of its set to songs nobody had heard yet? Food for thought, but nobody had a problem hearing 'em on that night...because the Clash were moving forward, simple as that. 'Nuff said.
2 comments:
I say splendid far too often to be normal, both online and in the real world...
At least I'm good at maths though.
I get terribly confused following comments, but I do hve a tragically small brain capacity, so that might explain it.
Father Ted is genius, well worth watching if reruns ever air anywhere on your side of the pond. Father Jack (the old, gun weilding priest from the clip you've seen) is a legend, and having been raised Catholic with insane old Irish priests around, scarilly familiar to me :)
I shall make a note to say "splendid" much more often when commenting over here too.
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