Studio Bootlegs

Demos, Out takes and Interviews

THE CLASH - A FASHION MALL PRODUCTION / MADE IN BEJING CENTRAL COMMITTEE

12" LP click to see enlarged cover
Career Opportunities / White Riot / Janie Jones / London's Burning / 1977 / Listen / 1-2, Crush on You / Pressure Drop / The Prisoner / Capital Radio / interview
The first five tracks are the December 1976 demos for Polydor produced by Guy Stevens, who would later produce London Calling. "Janie Jones" and "Career Opportunities" are included on the Clash on Broadway CD compilation, however the most interesting song is "White Riot" with Joe singing so that the words can be understood. Tracks six through eight are alternate self-produced versions from late 1977, "The Prisoner" in this form would come out on Black Market Clash. The final three tracks are a reproduction of the Capital Radio EP from 1977. This version of "Capital Radio" would also turn up on Black Market Clash as "Capital Radio One" ("Two" being the re-recorded version on the Cost of Living EP). This record has excellent board sound quality, except in the case of the Tony Parsons interview from the Capital Radio EP which sounds just as garbled here as in its original form.

FURY

12" LP
Career Opportunities / White Riot / Janie Jones / London's Burning / 1977 / Listen / 1-2 Crush on You / Pressure Drop / The Prisoner / Capital Radio / interview
A re-issues of Fashion Mall Production.

STUDIO OUT TAKES

7"
1-2 Crush on You / City of the Dead / Pressure Drop
The self-produced 1977 tracks on a single (see above).

ANOTHER HISTORY OF THE CLASH

12" Japanese 2 LP
Career Opportunities / White Riot / Janie Jones / London's Burning / 1977 / Pressure Drop / The Prisoner / Safe European Home / Julie's in the Drug Squad / Stay Free / Groovy Times / Drug Stabbing Time / Last Gang in Town / Ooh Baby Ooh / One Emotion / Clash City Rockers / Tommy Gun / I'm So Bored with the USA / London's Burning / White Riot / Career Opportunities / 1977 / Janie Jones ( instrumental) / Heartbreak Hotel / Rock the Casbah / Should I Stay or Should I Go?
I haven't actually seen or heard this one so I can only speculate on the contents. Definitely included are the Guy Stevens/Polydor demos, the Rope demos (see below), and the self produced late-77 tracks. The instrumental could be "Listen" and "Last Gang in Town" may be the demo version found on tapes (see below). "Should I Stay..." could be the Rat Patrol version (also see below). "I'm So Bored..." through the instrumental "Janie Jones" are either out takes from the first LP or demos recorded around that time by Mickey Foote. I haven't heard "Heartbreak Hotel" - probably a studio jam or sound check - or the "Rock the Casbah" demo as it was not yet written at the time of Mick's Rat Patrol mix and thus isn't on that record.

DISPATCHES FROM CLASH ZONE

12" LP plus 7"
Capital Radio / Listen / interview / The Prisoner / 1-2 Crush on You / "Aggression" / "Oh Yeah"
The rest of this record is the live boot 16 Tracks, from London on December 27, 1979 - minus a few tracks. Above is the Capital Radio EP, and the late 1977 self produced tracks. I don't know what "Aggression" and "Oh Yeah" are. They are probably mislabeled, and with reference to what else is included one could be "City of the Dead."

1-2 Crush On You / City of the Dead / Pressure Drop

UK 7"
From the late 1977 self-produced sessions (see above.) "City of the Dead" is probably the version released on the B-side of "Complete Control."

THE CLASH

7" EP Psychedelic Moose Records PMR005
Drug Stabbing Time / Safe European Home / Julie's in the Drug Squad / Stay Free
These are pre-Sandy Pearlman demos of Give 'Em Enough Rope material. The sound is average board quality. "Safe European Home" and "Stay Free" have different lyrics, and all the songs are much less polished.

THE CLASH

7" EP
Ooh Baby Ooh / One Emotion / Mona / You Can't Judge a Woman (by Making Love to Her Mother) / Kill Time / The Beautiful People are Ugly Too
The first two are more Rope demos, from June 1978 according to this record. Mick's "Ooh Baby Ooh" was re-worked into "Gates of the West" for the Cost of Living EP in 1979, while "One Emotion" is included on the Clash on Broadway CD compilation. "Mona" and "You Can't Judge" (aka "...a Book by the Cover") are Bo Diddley covers from the London Calling sessions that were probably just intended as jams. The final two tracks are from the Combat Rock sessions of November 1982. They were left off of the final release, but are on the recordings of Mick's original mix of the album (see entry below). The sound varies from slightly above to slightly below mediocre over this record.

RAT PATROL FROM FORT BRAGG

12" LP?
Straight to Hell / Know Your Rights / Rock the Casbah / Red Angel Dragnet / Should I Stay or Should I Go? / Ghetto Defendant / Sean Flynn / Car Jamming / The Beautiful People are Ugly Too / Atom Tan / First Night Back in London / Inoculated City / Death is a Star / Cool Confusion / Kill Time
The story goes that this is Mick's original mix of what was recorded in November 1981 and would eventually become Combat Rock. The music has much more of a sort of hip-hop feel to it than what was released, and was supposedly aggressively rejected by CBS and Joe Strummer, who brought in big time producer Glyn Johns (Who's Next) to rock and roll it up a bit. Other than "Rock the Casbah," which would be conceived and executed by Topper and Joe in 1982, the only thing not here in a different mix is "Overpowered by Funk." They should have left this weakest of all Clash tracks off in 1982 as well. It's interesting that it was left off of this recording (Mick's opinion of it?) as it had definitely been worked on live in October 1981 (see the boot Up and At 'Em) as had "Know Your Rights," "Should I Stay or Should I Go?," "Ghetto Defendant" and "Inoculated City." Only "The Beautiful People..." and "Kill Time" remain officially unreleased in some form (see above EP). "Cool Confusion" was used as the B-side of "Should I Stay..." in the US, and "First Night Back in London" was also a US "Should I Stay..." B-side as well as a UK "Know Your Rights" B-side. I don't know if this was actually released as a boot LP or just circulates on tape - I've heard reports of a record but have no confirmation. The title is the original working title for Combat Rock when it was intended to be a double album.

COMBAT ROCK OUT TAKES

12" LP
Rock the Casbah / Car Jamming / Atom Tan / Know Your Rights / Ghetto Defendant / Sean Flynn / "Man in a Box" / Overpowered by Funk / Death is a Star / Straight to Hell / "R.A.D."
I assume this is some of the material from the Mick Jones mix of Combat Rock, but "Rock the Casbah" wasn't yet written and "Overpowered by Funk" isn't included on the copies I've seen so I can't be sure. I have no idea what the source for those are. "Man in a Box" and "R.A.D." might be mis-titlings, but of what I don't know.

BLITZKRIEG BOP

EP
Demos of some sort but which ones I don't know.

Interview Records:

TALKING TO THE CLASH

7" picture disk - CLASH1 click to see enlarged cover
Has the same interview with Paul and Topper from sometime around late 1978 (they talk about the Sid Viscious arrest), although there are pictures of Joe and Paul from 1984 on the two sides of the record.

CLASH - INTERVIEW WITH JOE STRUMMER

Gun shaped picture disk UK TL60 click to see enlarged cover
A circa 1982 interview with Joe. Record says limited edition of 2500.

JOE/MICK pictures on cover

12" picture disk
A 1984 interview with Joe, although there are 1982 pictures of Joe and Mick on each side.