The Clash – Motor City Rockers

here is the info file from Dime

THE CLASH

10 March, 1980

Motor City Roller Rink

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Jackie Wilson Medical Fund Benefit

“On Eight Mile” CDR boot > aiff (XLD rip) > flac (xAct lev 8 coding with verify)

Joe Strummer – vocals, guitar

Mick Jones – guitar, vocals

Paul Simonon – bass, vocals

Topper Headon – drums

disk one

01 intro

02 Clash City Rockers

03 Brand New Cadillac

04 Safe European home

05 Jimmy Jazz

06 London Calling

07 The Guns of Brixton

08 Train In Vain

09 Protex Blue

10 White Man in Hammersmith Palais

11 Koka Kola

12 I Fought the Law

13 Spanish Bombs

14 Julie’s in the Drug Squad

disk two

01 Police and Thieves

02 Stay Free

03 Wrong `Em Boyo

04 Complete Control

05 Clampdown

06 Garageland

07 Armagideon Time

08 English Civil War

09 Tommy Gun

10 Londons Burning

11 Janie Jones (soundcheck)

12 I’m So Bored With The USA (soundcheck)

With the recent torrenting of 7 March, 1980, New York and 8 March, 1980 Passaic, I thought I’d offer up this final night of the 16 Tons US mini tour. San Francisco (2 March), Los Angeles (3 March), Philadelphia (6 March), and Boston (9 March) were the other nights. The sound quality isn’t quite as good on those other recordings, but we can get to them in time.

This was a quick tour add-on to raise money for Jackie Wilson’s medical expenses. Apparently The Nuge showed up looking’ for trouble!

The source for this torrent is a DYI boot CDR which showed up on eBay and other places in 1999. It seems to be more a labor of love than a proto commercial venture, and they did a good job in sourcing what sounds to be a very low gen, if not master, tape source.

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I’m always requesting that anyone in possession of nice quality masters or low gens that are lowly circulated or are circulated in bad high gen copies to please torrent them, or to contact me for a trade after which I will torrent them.

There are however a few tapes I have which are of hideous quality, but which sound like they are so far from the masters that upgrades might be nice.

These in particular meet that criteria, and are somewhat significant, so I’m putting out specific requests:

28 June, 1978 – Friars, Ayelsbury

First night of the On Parole with a very rare (only?) All the Young Punks. Probably also the first ever Safe European Home.

4 August, 1979 – Ruisrock Festival, Turku Finland

One of the few one-off gigs during the London Calling recording period. Features the only known to me performance of Four Horseman.

26 December, 1979 – Acklam Hall, London

Secret gig to warm up for the Kampuchea concert the next night. Great performance and includes The Clash playing Keys to Your Heart.

5 January, 1980 – Friars, Ayelsbury

First night of the UK Sixteen Tons tour. Has a rare Death or Glory.

18 January, 1980 – Caird Hall, Dundee

20 January, 1980 – Odeon, Edinburgh

29 January, 1980 – St. George’s Hall, Bradford

31 January, 1980 – Leeds University

These tapes seem like low gens might be treats.

6 February, 1980 – Top Rank, Birmingham

15 February, 1980 – Electric Ballroom, London (alternate source?)

Each also feature Keys to Your Heart.

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