The Clash - Charlie Don't Surf Live 1982

[@ladymelde]

I adore Joe Strummer with all my heart and soul. What a man! Never be another like him. RIP darling.

[@havspeed]

i feel tremendous pity for the ten people who disliked this

[@darkwitchhecate1347]

you know it 👍

[@vertrees2]

I saw The Clash in 1984, at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. I had just graduated High School, it was my first concert, and Red Rocks opened early, like 9:00 am. We grabbed EXCELLENT SEATS! 9th row... we played Hackey Sack all day, and drank the Wild Turkey and Coca Cola we were able to sneak in... what a great time. The Clash is AWESOME...!

[@andrewbrown1463]

To go from a gen 1 garage/punk band to writing tunes like this shows why the Clash is one of the best bands to come along. What they achieved in 6 years is beyond remarkable. Last great rock and roll band.

[@calvinmaynardtmt]

Happy birthday, Joe. We miss you daily.

[@swaggs]

This is one of my all time favorite Clash songs. The rhythm is just outstanding.

[@andrea22333]

Me too ❤

[@Lonesocio]

This remix is one of the greatest hidden gems on the internet.

[@killbot_factory]

joe was one of a kind... i never met him but feel i knew him well. i miss him.

[@TheLastFraudster]

Why are there no bands that even come close to the Clash. Greatest band ever!!

[@kaivader]

I love this song, forgot it was out there. Glad we can post these classics now. You can here the beginning of Big Audio Dynamite... RIP Joe...

[@aldarcy]

I wish someone would bring out a definitive LIVE dvd.

[@chucklobster]

@jostrum50 that was a nice touch.

[@TheCelticsrock34]

I've heard this video 100's of times and i still laugh at Joe's adlibing every time. RIP Joe

[@seerauberjohnny]

The band and joe in particular actually 'hung out' with Scorcese and De Niro for a while and even appeared in King Of Comedy (this footage was later cut but they are still in the credits and if you look closely there is about a second where they do appear

[@WilliamRMize]

Sandinista! Was the first Clash album I got my 7th grade paws on. It is truely an underrated album w many high spots from different music styles.

[@quiquebuxeda6044]

Yo encuentro que es una maravilla de album. Uno de mis preferidos de toda la historia. The clash forever. Los vi en Barcelona nostalgia pura

[@rangarfred]

you said it...one of the most UnDeR rated RIP JOE thanks 4 the music i grew up with

[@chrissirvid5845]

Sends shivers down my me

[@CityofDreadfulDelite]

I still can't watch the surf scene in Apocalypse Now where Robert Duvall speaks that unforgettable line and not have this song stuck in my head for days afterward... You did a great job with this, joestrum. Thanks for sharing.

[@101Vodoo]

This is a great Dvd if you can find it pick it up. This was shot at the height of The Clash Live Performance's. Concert was from the Tokyo Dome

[@abrasivewt]

i love the intro on this version, even with the overdubbed stuff. sounds great.

[@Zanthxs]

One of the grooviest grooves on guitar ...

[@milkthejockey]

you nailed it with the sample selection. dead on accurate.

[@cattotti]

Yeah your right about the beach scene in Apocalypse now the whole song is about that, well so far as I remember and I was an original clash fan.

[@andymac1873]

THE GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME !!! R.I.P JOE

[@ElGuido1969]

Yes, really spiced up! Sandinista! always makes me high and creative! I love it...

[@neiltay2002]

Thanks for the post.

[@johninacio4180]

Love this version with the samples in the beginning

[@Electronparade]

How is Paul getting that really awesome sound on his bass?

[@Cntiede22]

I watch this performance about 786234 times a day!

[@aetechllc]

Amazing live performance! Listen to the lyrics and make you're own judgment's. On the back of my Abrams A2 tank we have the bumper sticker "Charlie Don't Surf!" My company commander cannot figure out what it means. He is part of the WPPA so he does not have a clue.

[@vanderrhuc]

I sit here in London and yet there's definitely something missing. Where are all the bands like The Clash..? :-(

[@annizable]

make my day ....

[@elisaloba]

thanks for sharing!!!!

[@andymac1873]

WHAT A FUCKING SONG THE CLASH ROCK !

[@jostrum50]

It's from Clint Eastwood movie (Sudden Impact), Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver)and Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now). Robert De Niro sample was also used on Red Angel Dragnet but it was not De Niro speaking on Combat Rock.

[@EligosPoltergiest]

johnnytwice and jostrum50, couldn't agree more with you. And Charlie wouldn't surf of course, they meant serious business, what a shame.

[@bobby-bob8071]

I like this ...so so so so so much . Cream 4 the Goods .

[@ABflyersk8r]

the clash is the best band ever. period

[@sacrugby1]

Saw the Clash 1982 and 84. This song ripped both concerts.

[@wardelli]

love this track!!!!

[@bettydaw1970]

they both are awesome!!

[@Wenindoubtukisscraig]

god this song is so good!

[@itubeyoublah]

better than 99% of what i hear on the radio these days

[@kylefitzgerald4616]

Brilliant

[@shreddyray]

bliss...

[@jostrum50]

'Charlie' refers to the North Vietnamese soldiers. Charlie Don't Surf is a famous line from the film Apocalypse Now, spoken by Colonel Kilgore as justification for taking a beach at the Mekong Delta so the American soldiers could go surfing (from Wikepedia).

[@Spraycando]

@bapyou The Clash did lift audio tracks starting in the early eighties. Their lyrics were supported by a lot of movies from an earlier period. Take the example of Kosmo Vinyl doing the voice over from Taxi Driver (Robert DeNiro) The whole exercise was a reflection on east & west culture. The original Clash toured the USA & Far East and made clear the culture differences between the two. Robert Duvall: Charlie Dont Surf. Marlon Brando: They wont let them write Fuck on their aeroplanes. Woo. Deep

[@oggymitchell2375]

Happy Birthday Joe Strummer, gone but never forgotten

[@connaught2008]

joe and shane macgowan r my fav screechers.

[@MarkNasuti]

This is the definition of cool nothing can be cooler than this not even f****** fonzi

[@Lusstrator]

Go Ahead, Make My Day!

[@theutopiacast]

How does Mick get his guitar to make that sound.. I've never heard anything like that ever..

[@danparry834]

Probably with a bit of reverb and delay!

[@theutopiacast]

Really could you explain that a lil more..? Have you ever heard anything like that before anywhere else..?

[@danparry834]

Yeah, I'm a guitarist. You can buy delay and reverb pedals, I have a delay pedal myself, and my amp has inbuilt reverb.

[@jostrum50]

@bapyou I added the audio clips, NOT the clash (Clint Eastwood never said that until 1985)

[@MarkNasuti]

It's all good Clint was the tv hero The GI's where the real life hero's And the VC Well we are all friends know

[@theghostofcar4621]

I went to a gig The Clash performed in about 1983 and they were definitely sampling stuff from an Ennio Morricone soundtrack...can't remember exactly what but it was definitely from one of the Clint Eastwood westerns...possibly The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...did you already know when you added your samples?

[@jostrum50]

Wow, a reply from 10 years ago! The Clash regularly used a piece of music from Morricone called 'sixty seconds to what'. It was from the film ' a fistful of dollars'. I've never seen or heard voice samples from Clint Eastwood films at any Clash performance viewed, although they were used in the studio on Sandinista and Combat Rock. Mick Jones used samples extensively with BAD and with other bands he produced, notably Theatre of Hate on the 'westworld' album. Yes, I did know 😎

[@theghostofcar4621]

@@jostrum50 I seem to remember some voice sampling going on but I might be mistaken and just getting mixed up with BAD's Medicine Show...it's been nearly 40 years..😱

[@BigKrash]

Sickness!!

[@ad1307]

Legend nuff said RIP the strummer one

[@Ikaguah34]

"Speaking of Bruce, many critics have pointed out that Springsteen appropriated an image from the film Night of the Hunter for "Cautious Man": the hero is a once-tough loner who struggles to stay married - with "Love" and "Fear" tattooed on the knuckles of his hands. Sound familiar, Joe? "From 'Death or Glory'!" Joe snaps, suddenly alert. "What about it?" Bruce uses the same image on his new record. "See...." Joe snarls and then stops himself - turning that cheek again.

[@r8ltl]

how goods this joe rip

[@horismoku]

amen to that bro

[@QuayIssues]

I didn't realise that they played movie clips and Sergio Leone music over songs at Clash gigs - that must be Mick Jones trying out ideas for things he did with Big Audio Dynamite.

[@annizable]

The moore I listen to it....the moor I love It.... :)

[@rockyhorror1297]

@mrkrinkle72 I know, awesome two of my favorite things. Taxi Driver and The Clash

[@rockyhorror1297]

I recognize the taxi driver audio, they must love that movie...who doesnt?

[@tommasoliam]

best band ever...no contest!

[@TheModdy]

goddamn it,....I´m melting

[@darkwitchhecate1347]

The Best ))))🖤((((

[@swaggs]

Word.

[@mrkrinkle72]

@rockyhorror1297 they are red angel dragnets got taxi driver quotes in it

[@johnnytwice9991]

@Braunheim Don't be so touchy. I only explained meaning of this song. I really appreciate what you have done for Europe during second world war and later. Now our soldiers are fighting together in Afghanistan. But that does not mean that I love all aspects of the American mass culture. And believe me - don't have to go to North Korea. I grew up in communism :)

[@jostrum50]

Why, thank you

[@armandsdamanhoo]

wow, imagine if this was in ultra hd like some blu ray coldplay gig

[@Dillinger86]

and you saw the movie Apocalypse Now?

[@MrJarowise]

Here ya go Rob

[@singingjim]

CHARLIE DON'T SURF!!

[@JohnnyFriendly]

It actually came out in 1980

[@seanandbenr]

Proud to be an Englishman after watching this.

[@jostrum50]

It was a Scottish man that posted it 😎👍

[@GABERONE]

alguien tiene la version de los fabulosos cadillacs?? who have the version with los fabulosos cadillacs?

[@where7847]

i wonder who was in control of the quotes playing

[@jostrum50]

I added the samples when the video was made

[@Raymantico]

saw dem 5 times

[@Ma965]

Great Song, from the only band that matters. Charlie's gonna be a Napalm Star.......Clash, Forever.

[@punkisinthedetails1470]

HEY JOE !!!! WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO NOW!!!!

[@swaggs]

You got that right.

[@klongloff]

best album of the 1970s. Fact.

[@WilliamRMize]

Dude! Sandinista! Was released Dec. 12, 1980

[@Dillinger86]

yes

[@coolconfuzer]

:41-:56 THE GREATEST RIFF THEY EVER PLAYED!! its jizz in my ear

[@h8jf1]

The phrase is from "Apocalypse Now" and the song is from "Sandinista."

[@Ikaguah34]

Okay, this is a quote from the article, 'The Exile Of Joe Strummer'. "The new Joe Strummer sure is an easy-going guy. He turns the other cheek so fast it looks like his head's revolving. Strumming his acoustic guitar for hours, he announces that he's decided to head to Eskimo country with his Fostex and folk guitar to cut his mature solo album. "I'm gonna get some furry boots and go sit outside an igloo with a four-track. Cut it straight to CD. I'm gonna call it Alaska." Ba boomp."

[@oldphoque]

Sandanista was hated by just about everyone. I thought it was a masterpiece. Sure there are songs I skip but still play it often. It was a very experimental album that expanded their trials from London Calling.

[@spookysgarage1966]

History will teach us nuthin'...

[@Dillinger86]

How many know where this comes from? Charlie Don't Surf?

[@TuentietSenturyNoh]

@ABflyersk8r That's right my friend

[@jostrum50]

1983

[@bapyou]

@augie699 "everyone else is jealous of us!" Such as whom?

[@ericloring7237]

like this version better than the studio version.

[@jsnale]

uau, ....miss " You" cLaSh ;)

[@jefc52]

Yes absolut but the most talented Musically as when it comes to lyric is In my and many with me s opinion The stranglers. 39 years birthday yesterday. -I got all album worth talk about with Clash I like Sandinista the most - I Danish therefor language -typing errors -spelling lol! And about 35 with the stranglers-They have 17 official studio albums +++ solo stuf and more b sides etc.

[@unamiqueta]

Why do Americans always assume that criticism of their culture or politics is the result of jealousy? There are plenty of positive things to be said about the USA so it is therefore often easy to defend against criticism, but I would suggest to Braunheim that a forum relating to a song about American actions in the Vietnamese conflict is probably not the wisest place to start fighting that battle.

[@coolconfuzer]

FUCK YEAH! WE ARE #1

[@13PCP]

for you'll that don't surf. just ride the wave, cause i sure did . so let's all CLASH down!!!!! CHOW!

[@johnnytwice9991]

correctomundo

[@coolconfuzer]

if nam had a sound This be it!!