Joe Strummer RIP

We were able to meet Joe Strummer at a Tower performance/meet and greet session. We still talk about what a kind person he was. Joe went out-of-his-way to make sure everyone got an autograph, photo, handshake, or anything that made you happy. It was unbelievable.
We will always remember this great experience.
Oh yes, he made great music as well.

I haven't listened to the Clash in a while now. Turned on the radio yesterday morning while in the shower and, lo and behold, they were playing a Mescalaros tune. I just caught the end of it and would not have known who it was except for the DJ's comments about Joe, etc... Just hearing his name brought back a lot of old ( and good ) memories. Sorry to see him go, but i'd like to thank him for all the good times he helped me to have. Sean
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Sad .. end of a great great era and good part of my disfunctional youth which I loved !

Matt

The Clash were, for my money, the last great mythical rock'n'roll band. Strode the earth like gods it seemed to me, the way I thought the great bands used to, like Elvis, like Dylan. They saw to this themselves, engaging in self-mythologizing to a degree not seen since the heyday of the Beatles and Stones. But they backed it up just as well, with music that truly earned them their audacious (and self-annointed) moniker, "The Only Band That Matters". I only saw them once; drove 250 miles round-trip with a couple of good friends in an old beater at age 17, one of my most fondly remembered rock shows ever. I don't think Joe Strummer's singing was ever caught on record as powerfully as he came across live. A genuine original - we won't see his like again around these parts.

P.S. - VH1 promises two hours on Strummer and The Clash tonight at 10pm est.

This is tragic. "London Calling" is a classic. Of all the band out of the late seventies, they were one of the best.