First post - what brought you here??!!
I sometimes feel I am alone in the world.
I first learned of Burning London - The Clash Tribute while an irregular subscriber to the excellent Spiral Scratch magazine/fanzine in the early 90's. Irregular, not by choice you understand, but because the I sometimes snuck in before the single subscriber in the small Irish town I grew up in had a chance to collect :)
At that time then I became vaguely aware of this tribute LP, the bands who appeared on it, and what tracks they covered. Most seemingly non-entities; in all truth I didn't pay too much attention to this LP and it soon was forgotten.
Fast forward a decade later. While working in a computer manufacturing plant in Cork, I frequently brought to my workplace an invaluable and trusty radio walkman - remember, this was before the days of universal wifi, and the factory floor music policy was, well, grim - Cork's 106 FM, or, if you were lucky, 2FM. Standard listening on weekday evenings was Pet Sounds on Today FM, presented by Tom Dunne. One evening he played a song which, when it started, sounded a lot like "Train in Vain" by The Clash, because it repeated exactly the same drum pattern. It became clear though that this wasn't the uncredited original - but rather a cover of it - or was it?
I don't remember exactly when this was, but I know for sure it was sometime between 2000 and 2002. So, let's say 2001. Yeah, ancient history now. But the first time I heard it.....best explanation I can give is in my YT comment, on discovering the vid there, prob around 2009: Not just the 'Train in Vain' drum pattern, listen to the Jean-Jacques Burnel (The Stranglers) style bass guitar....for years this versh brought a lump to my throat every time I heard it
Close on another decade later and I'm finally taking bass guitar lessons, being the 41-year-old recovering boy that I am. I told my bass tutor "I'd die happy if I could play this". He'd heard the original but not the cover. I was advised by another party not to seek a tab (and, indeed, such a thing proved not to exist) - but rather to try to pick it up by ear.
So that's what I'm doing. Can you help? I - and, I sincerely hope, others - would be delighted to hear from you. Isn't this what the interweb was made for?!
BTW, 2 vids exist on YT.
1. One that was uploaded in 2009
2. Another uploaded last year, which looks like it has lifted some footage from various public service short films from 1960's USA. This video really should have more hits
Stay tuned.
I first learned of Burning London - The Clash Tribute while an irregular subscriber to the excellent Spiral Scratch magazine/fanzine in the early 90's. Irregular, not by choice you understand, but because the I sometimes snuck in before the single subscriber in the small Irish town I grew up in had a chance to collect :)
At that time then I became vaguely aware of this tribute LP, the bands who appeared on it, and what tracks they covered. Most seemingly non-entities; in all truth I didn't pay too much attention to this LP and it soon was forgotten.
Fast forward a decade later. While working in a computer manufacturing plant in Cork, I frequently brought to my workplace an invaluable and trusty radio walkman - remember, this was before the days of universal wifi, and the factory floor music policy was, well, grim - Cork's 106 FM, or, if you were lucky, 2FM. Standard listening on weekday evenings was Pet Sounds on Today FM, presented by Tom Dunne. One evening he played a song which, when it started, sounded a lot like "Train in Vain" by The Clash, because it repeated exactly the same drum pattern. It became clear though that this wasn't the uncredited original - but rather a cover of it - or was it?
I don't remember exactly when this was, but I know for sure it was sometime between 2000 and 2002. So, let's say 2001. Yeah, ancient history now. But the first time I heard it.....best explanation I can give is in my YT comment, on discovering the vid there, prob around 2009: Not just the 'Train in Vain' drum pattern, listen to the Jean-Jacques Burnel (The Stranglers) style bass guitar....for years this versh brought a lump to my throat every time I heard it
Close on another decade later and I'm finally taking bass guitar lessons, being the 41-year-old recovering boy that I am. I told my bass tutor "I'd die happy if I could play this". He'd heard the original but not the cover. I was advised by another party not to seek a tab (and, indeed, such a thing proved not to exist) - but rather to try to pick it up by ear.
So that's what I'm doing. Can you help? I - and, I sincerely hope, others - would be delighted to hear from you. Isn't this what the interweb was made for?!
BTW, 2 vids exist on YT.
1. One that was uploaded in 2009
2. Another uploaded last year, which looks like it has lifted some footage from various public service short films from 1960's USA. This video really should have more hits
Stay tuned.
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