LDB Vintage Series #036

Hi there! After closing both my Master and Special series I took a break from seeding, enjoying life and most of all
preparing for a new series! This is not going to be as frequent as my previous ones, I'll be seeding shows from time
to time so don't expect massive volumes here.

Why a "vintage" series? Because music in the 70's and 80's was really something...so different, so special with "that" kind
of sound which you don't find anymore. That was the era of real music without the internet, of long tours and enjoyable live
shows spanning from metal to new wave, progressive, jazz, fusion, pop. So many bands were born and disappeared during those
two decades.

I am then celebrating the 70's and the 80's and their unmistakeable sound in this LDB Vintage Series. You will find many bands
I have never seeded in the past but that I still enjoy listening to. Most of these come from low generation tapes that were traded
around that period, many radio broadcasts and overall lots of surprises.

Hope you will enjoy this new series! 

THE CLASH
Reggio Emilia, Festa de l'Unità
September 8, 1984

01.Intro / London Calling
02.Radio Clash
03.Safe European Home  
04.Career Opportunities
05.Are You Red..y
06.(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
07.I'm So Bored With the U.S.A.
08.Junco Partner (James Waynes cover) 
09.Police and Thieves (Junior Murvin cover)
10.Rock the Casbah
11.The Guns of Brixton  
12.Sex Mad Roar
13.Clampdown (fades out - battery KO)
14.I Fought the Law (The Crickets cover)
XX.Brand New Cadillac (Vince Taylor and His Playboys cover)
XX.Janie Jones
XX.Tommy Gun
XX.English Civil War
XX.Clash City Rockers
XX.Garageland 

TT 60:23

Lineage: Unknown recording device > n generation tape > Aiwa Tape Deck TC-WE475 > Creative Sound Blaster Recon 3D >
HD > SoundForge Pro 10.0 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 6) 

Joe Strummer – vocals
Vince White – guitar, vocals
Nick Sheppard - guitar
Paul Simonon – bass guitar, vocals
Pete Howard – drums, percussion

Excellent recording from the late Clash period, unfortunately incomplete. But what's available is definetely worth a listen. They 
were indeed a different band from the one that first started in the mid-70's. Less wild but for sure more listenable. The audience 
seemed to appreciate the gig. Joe Strummer is very talkative and at one point even asked the support of the audience to have a 
few sentences translated into italian.

Some sources list this show as being recorded at the indoor Palasport, which is very unlikely since the recording sounds like 
being recorded outdoor, and Joe mentions about bookstores in the venue which makes me thinking that the show took place at the 
annual Festa de l'Unità in some open door ground, as it was the case for most of those festivals.

Enjoy!

ldb