seamus_mcshanty1 wrote:Has anybody here ever seen Strummer perform with the pogues? It must have been great, especially if you're a big fan of both the pogues and the clash. I wish I could have seen those shows .
SonOfErin wrote:I have heard London Calling with Strummer & Pogues, but are there any recordings of him singing Pogues songs?
seamus_mcshanty1 wrote:Has anybody here ever seen Strummer perform with the pogues? It must have been great, especially if you're a big fan of both the pogues and the clash. I wish I could have seen those shows .
Dosgatas wrote:Based on Mike From Boston’s post, I guess it was the 1987 Pogues show (at Spit or Axis, or whatever the club was called that year) in Boston… I was in the backstage area before the show, and saw Joe sitting ten feet away playing guitar. Couldn’t pass up the opportunity to say something, but I didn’t want to blurt out the typical fawning fan crap. So I casually sauntered over and said “um, could you show me the chords for ‘Should I Stay Or Should I Go’?” He played the song, using chords I didn’t recognize (okay, I only knew maybe 6-10 chords, and hadn’t even mastered bar-chords yet!), and I said “oh, I thought it was ____ (whatever it is – D/G/D?)”. So he strummed those chords and said “yeah, you’re right.” At which point I walked (on air!) back to the person I’d been talking to and said “I just taught Joe Strummer to play a Clash song.” Granted, that may be something of an exaggeration, but it’s still a story I like to tell!
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