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Abbie :
02/08/2023 03:06 AM
Listen back to International Clash Day in the KEXP archive at KEXP.ORG!
"Straight To Hell" started as a guitar doodle from Mick Jones, which was played around with for several months before finally drummer Topper Headon found a beat that would fit - in his own words, "You couldn't play rock 'n' roll to it. Basically it's a Bossa Nova."
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Joe Strummer revealed a secret from the recording: "Just before the take, Topper said to me "I want you to play this" and he handed me an R Whites lemonade bottle in a towel. He said "I want you to beat the bass drum with it." So when you hear the bass drum beat on the recording, you also hear Strummer hitting the front of the bass drum with a bottle to thicken the sound.
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Eva Walker :
12/22/2022 01:53 PM
"Straight To Hell" started as a guitar doodle from Mick Jones, which was played around with for several months before finally drummer Topper Headon found a beat that would fit - in his own words, "You couldn't play rock 'n' roll to it. Basically it's a Bossa Nova."
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Joe Strummer revealed a secret from the recording: "Just before the take, Topper said to me "I want you to play this" and he handed me an R Whites lemonade bottle in a towel. He said "I want you to beat the bass drum with it." So when you hear the bass drum beat on the recording, you also hear Strummer hitting the front of the bass drum with a bottle to thicken the sound.
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Marco Collins :
10/27/2022 10:52 PM
This track was released in the UK on this day in 1982 as a Double A Side with "Should I Stay or Should I Go"
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Larry Mizell, Jr. :
10/26/2022 01:30 PM
The backing track was recorded at the Electric Lady studios in New York on New Year's Eve, 1981. "Straight To Hell" started as a guitar doodle from Mick Jones, which was played around with for several months before finally drummer Topper Headon found a beat that would fit - in his own words, "You couldn't play rock 'n' roll to it. Basically it's a Bossa Nova."
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Joe Strummer revealed a secret from the recording: "Just before the take, Topper said to me "I want you to play this" and he handed me an R Whites lemonade bottle in a towel. He said "I want you to beat the bass drum with it."
So when you hear the bass drum beat on the recording, you also hear Strummer hitting the front of the bass drum with a bottle to thicken the sound. The sessions finished just before midnight. Strummer remembers: "We took the E train up to Times Square. I'll never forget coming out of the exit, into a hundred billion people, and I knew we had just done something great."
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Troy Nelson :
09/17/2022 04:35 PM
This track was released in the UK on this day in 1982 as a Double A Side with "Should I Stay or Should I Go"
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