"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 produced the first cut, but the other members were dissatisfied and producing duties were handed to Glyn Johns at which point the album became a single LP. The original cut has since been obtained and subsequently bootlegged."(from wikipedia)
Ok, WTF!?!?!
I consider myself a fairly huge Clash fan and I knew zip about this. I'm embarassed but at the same time pretty excited that I found some new Clash tunes! Managed to get my hands on a copy, and it seems that the aforementioned Glyn Johns did a bit of a hatchet job on Combat Rock. Extended intros/ outros and whole songs were cut from Combat Rock, and whether or not this was a good idea will depend on who you ask. In addition to the editing of the tracks, some on here are alternate takes, and although a couple are fairly muddy the majority are of really decent sound quality! And, in some cases, these versions eclipse the released version, and in the case of Should I Stay Or Should I Go eclipse the Combat Rock version by a freakin' mile!
So, yeah, I'm fairly stoked. It's all over the web, apparantly, readily available with the blessing of Mick Jones.
Did any of you reading this know about Rat Patrol?
4 hours ago
3 comments:
I knew, but I purposefully held the information from you. Since you've never mailed those CDs you promised. Don't make me push stick pins in my voodoo doll. 'Cause I will.
Wow. I knew that was going to be the original title and I knew the story, but I never knew you could get hold of the tracks. I do now!!!
Thom, you're a mean bastard! I think I'll hold onto the cd's until X-Mas now.
Yeah Simon, it's pretty exciting!
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