I saw Bruce at the Palladium, Sept 15, 1978
Another highlight of my life (I’m a lifelong Bruce fan)

Thanks for all the help and the info. The Clash was like nothing I had heard before or since.

-Pamela

Pamela´s last blog post..The Clash @ Bonds NYC 1981

The only show that I know of was the Clash opening for the Who @ Shea Stadium NY in 1982. If you were still in NYU in 82 … that could be the place. But I don’t think you could mix up being in a baseball stadium with a club, or small music venue like the Palladium.

You could always go to BlackMarketClash.com. They list almost every show the Clash ever played, and they list them by year, date and place. So if you saw a Clash show … it would be there.

I watched the Clash video on PBS (Ch 21 on Long Island) last night. Amazing. AMAZING.

Maybe I am confusing shows.. or venues… Did The Clash ever share the bill with a big-named act? I know it was early ’80s when I was at NYU. My boyfriend at the time wore black nail polish to the show and I hated it. (The polish. Not the show.) ;>

It’s killing me that I can’t remember something that was so great. Damn.

But I do remember thinking how great it was, even then.

Thanks for any help you can share,
Pamela

Pamela´s last blog post..The Clash @ Bonds NYC 1981

I understand the concept. As far as opening act … it could have been Mickey Dread, it could have been the B-girls, it could have been Lee Dorsey. It could have been multiple bands. In Mikey Dreads favor, there is the pict of him singing and the Clash dancing around him … but that could have been just one song. I just don’t remeber. I guess I could do some research on BlackMarketClash.com … they would probably know.

It was a great show. I do remeber that much!

Pamela´s last blog post..The Clash @ Bonds NYC 1981

Pamela´s last blog post..The Clash @ Bonds NYC 1981

Hoov … tell us how you really feel!

I figure if enough people, like you, me & Dorothy … and other Post toasties plug at it … we’ll figure out the name of the place. I know the guys name was Phil … and yup he had all the best imports. Glenn Cove sounds right. It was a tiny little shack … from what I remember.

Damn … I almost forgot about the Skids! I loved them! “Working For The Yankee Dollar” … and all the rest of their Scottish art/punk music. Just Googled them and found a bunch of their stuff on last.fm. Wow! I’m gettin’ all flash backed memories and crap!

Sometimes I wish I never sold all my vinyl … especially all my singles. But when you’ve moved so many times … it’s gets to be a little much to tote around thousands of albums and 45s. Dorothy still has her vinyl … I’m in awe! How about you?

By the by … I’m getting ready to post my Bonds stuff. The live shots aren’t great … it’s all the back stage, and street photos of the Clash and the Slits that’s cool.

What’s very strange Mr Hoover is that on the same B&W roll of the Clash at Bonds are pictures of you in my Mom’s in Lanoka, and you backstage at Emerald City. It was the night John Eddie & The Front Street Runners opened for Gary US Bonds. Sometimes when I look at negatives, I’m blown away by some of the stuff I don’t even remeber having photographed. Or that one event coincided with another. But hey … it was 28(?) years ago. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!! Fuck I’m gettin’ old!

That is definetly Ray Jordan…. Me and Dorothy ligged into Bonds one night and he was the one manning the door and letting us in….

I loved that record store too… it was in Glen Cove. I remember buying a PiL album there. And I remember you buying several albums by the SKIDS there…. And I think I got the 2nd gang of four album there… as an import. He had great imports.

Bleecker Bobs sucked.

It still sucks.

@Grace:

Grace I think the other guy on the far right of the stage dancing with Mickey Dread is Mickey Gallagher, keyboard player for Ian Dury & The Blockheads. He was playing keys for the Clash on that tour. I could be mistaken.

Yes the guy next to Mick is Ray Jordan … Dorothy confirmed that one too.

I didn’t spend a lot of time at Bleaker Bob’s only when we ventured into the city from Long Island where I was attending college … the place I spent a lot of time at was this great import shop on Long Island. The guy who owned it was named Phil. It was close to CW Post, but for the life of me I can’t remeber the name of the place. I talked to Dorothy and even she couldn’t remeber it. That’s what happens when you hit the > 50 mark … things get fuzzier. I think that’s part of the reason I’m posting all this stuff now. In 5 more years my memory may be closer to the “fantasy” marker than the “memories” one.

Great pics as always!!!

Wish you’d taken one of the outside of the bus – I remember during the ’84 Clash II tour it was a regular trailways bus, but I’d love to see how this one looked from outside as it looks like a real 80′s era tour bus.

And if you spent a lot of time in Bleeker Bobs, you might remember DJ Scratchy Meyers because he also worked there too.