THE CLASH

Saturday, 6 June 1981 late show

Bond International Casino
1530 Broadway
New York, New York 10036
USA


FLAC master, 19 June 2021, by elegymart:
Analog audience recording (stereo) {recorded by Gene Poole}: unknown mics/recorder > analog audio cassette master > two 1979-81 US TDK SA-C90 (Type II CrO2) analog audio cassettes {from the Stonecutter Archives} > Sony TC-WE435 (azimuth adjustment) > Roland R05 (24/96) > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 (audio cleanup, convert to 16/44) > SHNtool (fixed SBE) > CD Wave (track splits) > TLH (WAV > FLAC8).
Created this text file.


Total running time [1:48:11]
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01 6 Seconds to Watch (end) > London Calling [3:50]
02 Safe European Home [4:20]
03 The Leader [1:47]
04 Train in Vain [5:14]
05 (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais [4:41]
06 This Is Radio Clash [5:22]
07 Corner Soul [3:15]
08 The Guns of Brixton [3:52]
09 The Call Up [6:34]
10 Bankrobber [3:48]
11 Complete Control [4:10]
12 Lightning Strikes [4:03]
13 Ivan Meets GI Joe [2:57]
14 Charlie Don't Surf [5:23]
15 The Magnificent Seven [7:11]
16 Broadway [4:02]
17 Police and Thieves [5:48]
18 Somebody Got Murdered [4:24]
19 Clampdown [4:42]
20 One More Time [4:41]
21 Brand New Cadillac [2:07]
22 Career Opportunities [2:00]
23 Janie Jones [2:54]
-- encore --
24 Armagideon Time [4:10]
25 Jimmy Jazz [4:10]
26 New York's Burning [2:34]


Band line-up:
Joe Strummer � lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar
Mick Jones � lead guitar, backing and lead vocals
Paul Simonon � bass guitar, backing vocals
Nicky "Topper" Headon � drums, percussion
-- special guest --
Lee Perry - vocals on t17


Notes:

THE RIDE OF YOUR AMAZING LIFE VOL. 39

At this point life has gotten in the way, but there's plenty of unfinished busy-ness on top of inflows and outflows of a wealth of material, while we run into NAB and other questionable forks in the road, and the blurring of TGPC and the Stonecutter Archives along with one's own. We're now past Vol. 200 of TGPC however sluggishly we're moving along, so it's time to rummage through the old storage and get some unshared older and newer transfers out there in a parallel crawl to the finish line, who knows when we'll move on to the elegymart archives before that turns to dust. The previous shares of the Stonecutter Archives weren't named or numbered, because there was no foresight that the bot would one day disappear into thin air. Thankfully we now have that database salvaged, but since the numbered series functioned so well to keep track of TGPC, we're applied the same approach here.

Here's the next sporadic drop courtesy of the Stonecutter Archives. There was a thought about calling it Ticket to Ride, but that seemed to connote some exchange of currency, while Free Ride would mistakenly lead others to believe this series focuses on Foghat or Edgar Winter uploads (apologies to those of you who just had your hopes squashed there). For the rest of you, buckle yourself in, because you want to do this safely -- let's see if you can all handle shifting gears with TGPC and the R.O.Y.A.L. series. For now we won't divulge who has the inner or outer track, but brace yourself for the ride, and hopefully sometime in the near future we can put our foot to the pedal again and accelerate.

This time we've dug back to an old hard drive for a Clash show from Bond's. As you'll be able to tell from the files here, this transfer was done back in 2017 -- long before we established TGPC or ROYAL. At the time this Clash show was held back because the hope was that we would eventually dig up most of the Bond's run that Gene had taped. For those of you who may have traded recordings from this run with Stonecutter back in the pre-internet days, the source of all those audience recordings were from Gene. He attended almost the entire run (maybe he missed one or two shows), but at least a master to one of the shows was lost en route homeward, and many of the others were lost over time. Unfortunately Gene didn't tape the opening acts.

Mercifully the tapes that made it home were dubbed by Stonecutter and a key piece of history retained before they were lost. At the height of the CDR revolution, Stonecutter had most of these cassettes run through a BBE and then put direct to disc, replete with buffer underruns and other CDR shortcomings.

In rooting through the Stonecutter Archives, this was the only cassette to have surfaced: the Saturday evening show during the second week of the Clash's historic run at Bond's -- the tenth of their total seventeen shows, rescheduled from the original cancelled May 30th evening show. Our hope especially with access to TGPC, was to revisit all the Stonecutter cassettes and do fresh transfers to remove CDR extractions from the lineage. That was back in September 2017. Flash forward: two weeks has passed by after the 40th anniversary of this show and this sat on the hard drive neglected and forgotten. Until now.

It's a distant-sounding recording, somewhat hollow and vocals are not very distinct. "Clampdown" got cut off on Side B of the first cassette.

There was much more info about this show at blackmarketclash.co.uk at the time this was transferred, but sadly that site is no longer. Two sources exist for this show. This one is known as Source 1 (at least on that old site), and is the more complete of the two. If anyone has Source 2, please share or reseed if it's been up here before.

Enjoy,
elegymart