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Friday Dec 21, 2007

Dec 21, 2007
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So long and thanks for the tunes.....

I can't beleive its will be 5 years tomorrow. I remember where I was when I heard the news too, like folks who were there when Kenedy was shot. I was standing in Threshold Music in Tinley Park. Ironically purchasing a new single that had just came out, not knowing it would be his last. "It's not fair...", I thought.

I remember being somewhere around 6 or 7 years old, using a step ladder to drop a needle onto a record (one of the skills I mastered from the men in my family, like pouring a proper martini) not knowing exactly who it was. What I did know was that I couldn't stop listening to this song called "Revolution Rock". From the opening kick and snare drum, to the slick as hell horns blaring in the foreground, I knew I was hooked. I cried the day Joe strummer died, and as I write this another tear is welling up in my eye. It might be a little over dramatic, but without the Clash and Joe Strummer's voice and lyrics to get me through the hard times, I never would have made it. I can't play a Clash record without it putting me in a better mood. Hell, I wouldn't be here to write this. I wouldn't have picked up a guitar and learned to (half assedly) play it. I never would have written my first song, or recorded my first demo.

Last night at Exit I had a moment of silence for Joe Strummer, and played nothing but his songs for the last hour at the bar.

Without Joe Strummer's guidance, I would have been lost.

Thanks for the music. frown
cyberiouse:
Always good to remember those that came before. We are all standing on the shoulders of these giants. Keep them in our minds and hearts and keep playing their music.. and they will never trully die.
Dec 23, 2007

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