The Clash
1982-05-29
Asbury Park, NJ
Convention Hall
1st of 3 nights
(Audience)

Audience Recording of unknown lineage > ? > CDR > EAC (secure) > WAV > FLAC 8

Set:
01. 03:36 London Calling
02. 05:22 Police and Thieves
03. 03:58 Train In Vain
04. 03:49 Car Jamming
05. 02:10 Career Opportunities
06. 03:56 Know Your Rights
07. 05:50 The Magnificent Seven
08. 03:08 Ghetto Defendent
09. 03:42 Clash City Rockers
10. 02:09 Janie Jones
11. 03:14 Should I Stay or Should I Go?
12. 02:00 Brand New Cadillac
13. 02:23 Bankrobber
14. 03:55 Somebody Got Murdered
15. 03:15 Rock the Casbah
16. 03:51 Complete Control
17. 04:47 Clampdown
18. 03:50 The Guns Of Brixton
19. 02:56 I Fought the Law
20. 03:25 Straight to Hell

Total Time : 01:11:16

Band:
Joe Strummer - vocals, guitar
Mick Jones - guitar, vocals
Paul Simonon - bass, vocals
Terry Chimes - drums

Comments:
A below-average recording, though the last 7 songs are much worse, severely dull and muffled.

For the most part, it is an average audience recording, with a little distance and some mild distortion.

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The Clash in Asbury Park: I drove Joe Strummer to the hospital
Chris Jordan
Published 3:32 a.m. ET May 26, 2017 | Updated 7:30 p.m. ET June 6, 2017

Thirty-five years ago the Clash took over Asbury Park.

And Don Maggi of the Fords section of Woodbridge took Clash lead singer Joe Strummer to the hospital. Maggi was on duty as part of promoter John Scher�s team when the Clash played three shows at the city�s Convention Hall on Memorial Day weekend to open their 1982 �Combat Rock� tour.

They would become mainstream stars that summer, thanks to the �Combat Rock� hit singles �Rock the Casbah� and �Should I Stay or Should I Go.� In the fall, they would appear on �Saturday Night Live� and open for the Who at Shea Stadium in New York City.

The Clash weekend in Asbury Park coalesced the Jersey Shore�s punk rock scene, which is still vibrant today. More than 2,000 punk and hardcore music fans filled Convention Hall earlier this year for a tribute concert for the late Dave Franklin of the Jersey punk band Vision. The Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival returns to the Stone Pony June 9 to June 11.

On Memorial Day weekend in �82, the boardwalk was electric with punks, rockers, misfit kids and curiosity seekers that included this reporter, then a teenager attending his first concerts. My friends and I went to the second and third shows and hung out in the Grand Arcade for the duration of the first, listening to the beat of the music. The Only Band That Mattered was in town.

Maggi, now the executive producer of the public television music-themed hits �Front & Center� and �Speakeasy,� was on the job. He accompanied Clash tour manager Kosmo Vinyl as he scoped the boardwalk for potential attendees of the show�s backstage after-party.

�He gave backstage passes to anybody who looked freaky,� Maggi said. �There was a lot going, it was a wild scene.�

A little too wild on the May 29 opening night.

�Someone threw a cherry bomb or some sort of explosive device at (lead singer) Joe Strummer and it blows up on his leg,� Maggi said. �He keeps playing and he yells �Combat Rock!� from the stage, all pumped up about it.�

The show went on but Maggi could tell something was amiss.

�People start realizing that somebody should tend to his leg and I was volunteered to do it by I don�t who or how,� Maggi said. �We were drinking and we hopped into my car, my Dodge Duster with an alligator roof.�

As Maggi inched his car from the backstage area through the Grand Arcade, Strummer greeted fans, including me, with handshakes and good tidings.

�I don�t know how we found the place but we found the hospital,� Maggi said. �He didn�t have any ID on him, so I had to present my ID. We�re drinking a couple of beers, hanging with the doctors, and they cleaned it up and we walked into the hospital lobby and there�s a bunch of kids there. We hopped back into my car and they followed us to the Empress Hotel (in Asbury Park where the Clash were staying) where more kids were hanging out and I sat down and he was still drinking.�

�I decided I should drive back to Fords at 3 o�clock in the morning.�

Mission accomplished. The Clash played at Convention Hall the next two nights.

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