This is the original version of 'Combat Rock' as produced by Mick Jones in 1981, with newly discovered instrumental track titled 'Walk Evil Talk'. 



The Clash - The Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg
Label: None
Format: CD, Album, Unofficial Release
Country: UK
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk, Post-Punk, New wave

Unofficial Release - Sound Quality very good -> excellent

1981 Studio Sessions
Electric Ladyland & Wessex Studios

Lineage: Demo reel>cass>eac>wave>cpu>flac


Tracklist:

01. The Beautiful People Are Ugly Too	3:45
02. Kill Time 		4:58
03. Should I Stay Or Should I Go 	3:05
04. Rock The Casbah 	3:48
05. Know Your Rights 	5:05
06. Red Angel Dragnet 	5:12
07. Ghetto Defendant 	6:18
08. Sean Flynn 		7:30
09. Car Jamming 	3:54
10. Inoculated City 	4:33
11. Death Is A Star 	2:39
12. Walk Evil Talk 	7:37
13. Atom Tan (Edited) 	2:44
14. Inoculated City (Uncensored 'Combat Rock' Version)	2:31 
15. First Night Back In London (Edited) 	2:57
16. Cool Confusion 	3:10
17. Straight to Hell	6:55


Notes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_Rock

Combat Rock was originally planned as a double album with the working title Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg, but the idea was scrapped after internal wrangling within the group. Mick Jones had mixed the first version, but the other members were dissatisfied and mixing/producing duties were handed to Glyn Johns, at which point the album became a single LP. The original mixes were later bootlegged. Out-takes included a Tymon Dogg song, "Once You Know", the recording featured all the band with Tymon Dogg on vocals and violin.


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Late 1981…….under the working title ‘Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg’ work was commencing on the follow up album to ‘Sandinista’
Demos were being recorded using a mobile sound van at the KAR studios in London. Mick Jones was not pleased and issued an ultimatum “If you do it in New York, I’ll turn up”

The sessions were transferred to Electric Lady studios in New York, where Mick Jones took on production duties. Mick’s dance influenced production of the project shaped up to be 15 mostly raga-length tracks. The Clash could be looking at a double album again it seemed. Mick’s finished mixes were presented to the band, as they were about to leave for a Far East tour. They unanimously rejected it, citing over-indulgence and over-length. Joe wanted a single album that the band could tour and make money for themselves for the first time, being only just out of debt to CBS.
Joe pushed his single album plan and Glyn Johns, who had worked with the Beatles, Rolling Stones and the Faces, was brought in to oversee the production and cut the album down to size. Some tracks were edited down and remixed, whilst ‘The Beautiful People’ ‘Kill Time’ and First Night Back In London were left off completely. Even the title was edited down, and the 12 remaining tracks were finally released in May 1982 as “Combat Rock” eventually becoming the biggest selling album the Clash ever had.

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http://clash.wikia.com/wiki/Rat_Patrol_from_Fort_Bragg

http://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.co.at/2014/10/the-clash-rat-patrol-from-fort-bragg.html