Taking Sides: Solid Gold vs. Entertainment!

a friend did, and I do think there was dancing, they were on tour with Black Uhuru - now that's a double bill!

The most recent Tape Op features an interview with the guy who produced or engineered Solid Gold, and in it he says he kept trying to give them advice on how to make it more commercial but they would have none of it. Supposedly there was some dude hanging around, so he asked the band who that was, and it was Mick Jones, who the producer claimed took a lot of his suggestions and I guess later applied them to the Clash.

I just read an interview with Andy Gill and I wish I hadn't. He came off such a dick, totally dismissing the other guys as poseurs, claiming more or less full responsibility for just about every aspect of the band's sound, from the lyrics to the delivery to the stage posturing to the arrangements to the public illusion that the band was somehow an equal collective of like minds.

they were on tour with Black Uhuru - now that's a double bill!

oh god

hey now, Red and Sinsemilla are very good and their band at the time was all-star