A new video dropped this week for a previously unreleased Joe Strummer track titled "Fantastic" ... included on the record "Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years."
The video, including scenes around the East Village, features archival footage shot by Strummer, Dick Rude, Julien Temple, Don Letts and more.
Per American Songwriter:
Filmmaker Lance Bangs, who has directed videos for Nirvana, Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Green Day, and more, pieced together unseen footage from the artist's archives to lend a visual accompaniment to "Fantastic," and Strummer's lyrical oratory around dreaming, making change and better days...
And the track:
Recorded in December 2002 at the Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire, Wales, "Fantastic" was one of Strummer’s final recordings, with vocals laid down just weeks after Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros played their last-ever live show at Liverpool University on Nov. 22, 2002, and exactly one month before Strummer’s untimely death on Dec. 22, 2002, at the age of 50.
H/T, Dr. Bop!
Beautiful tune...He is MISSED!
ReplyDeleteWow that is an absolutely amazing version of RDP. I think I might like this better than the *official* album release which btw was used by Julian Schnabel as the final song at the end of his film the Divining Bell and The Butterfly. After Lou Reed and Bowie I miss Joe the most. Personally I think he was just getting warmed up with his world music exploration and the best was yet to come.......The Mescaleros were fucking smoking hot and the 3 albums he did with them are at least as good as the stuff he Joe did with the Clash maybe better......Global A-Go-G0, the second album, is just one great track after another.....
ReplyDeleteGreat tune. Wouldn't have heard except for evgrieve. Thank you.
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