The IMCT Chronicles

[Vimmattu]

Inspired by the Wayback Archive thread, I want to call out the veterans and knowledgeable members of this board to lay down a timeline of IMCT / Satch's forum and the other closely linked or earlier Clash communities.

Please, the thread is yours.

Once upon a time...

[Olaf]

Well, it all started with Keith Levene inventing the internet.

[Noise Inspector]

Well, it all started with Keith Levene inventing the internet.

And music

[Rat Patrol]

And birthing our mothers from his spare rib.

[Vimmattu]

Well, it all started with Keith Levene inventing the internet.

And music

Levene might have invented music, but I am certain Bernie Rhodes invented the internet.

[Dr. Medulla]

And birthing our mothers from his spare rib.

Keith Levene's Spare Ribs and Poptones is the best restaurant in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

[Marky Dread]

You make me feel ashamed
At acting attitudes
Remember ridicule
It should be clear by now
clear by now
Your words are useless
Full of excuses
False confidence
Someone has used you well
Used you well
I could be wrong
It could be hate
As far as I can see
Clinging desperately
Imagining pretending
No personality

[Dr. Medulla]

Weirdest restaurant jingle ever.

[JennyB]

Hey Marky -- love the GOTW sig line.

[101Walterton]

My favourite IMCT memories were the on line party when hundreds turned up and were on line at once and the other was the 12 hour XXX thread. I am still having therapy after some of the confessions made (yes I am talking about the bespectacled librarian).

[101Walterton]

Hey Marky -- love the GOTW sig line.

Agreed. Its impossible to read it without singing the tune.

[Wolter]

And birthing our mothers from his spare rib.

Keith Levene's Spare Ribs and Poptones is the best restaurant in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Shit, I was just in Kenosha a few weeks ago. I should have have stopped by.

[eumaas]

You never did the Kenosha Kid.

[Wolter]

You never did the Kenosha Kid.

You never did the Kenosha, Kid.

You never did "the," Kenosha Kid.

You? Never did the Kenosha Kid think you...

You can fool the Philadelphia, rag the Rochester, josh the Joliet, but you never did the Kenosha Kid.

[drowninghere]

Inspired by the Wayback Archive thread, I want to call out the veterans and knowledgeable members of this board to lay down a timeline of IMCT / Satch's forum and the other closely linked or earlier Clash communities.

Please, the thread is yours.

Once upon a time...

I'd be quite interested to read about this as well. My own personal history goes through that old BAD site where they were hosting the Entering a New Ride mp3's, Christopher's Clash City Showdown site, a Strummer site that might have been up for a year or so called The Road to Rock N' Roll (I think) and then IMCT.

This site has certainly offered some great, unexpected reading - great insight from Teddy B, Marcus Gray dropping by, Vince White, not to mention a lot of other great posters. But I've got to say that for me Christopher's contributions from the time of Joe's comeback with the Mescaleros to his untimely death is what I probably remember the most from all the Clash related reading I've done on these sites - I still remember reading his X-Ray Style review/preview (before I had heard it) and thinking what it could possible be like for Joe to have songs that sound even somewhat like Radiohead and the Smiths (for me those were good comparisons). Or Christopher's misheard Johnny Appleseed lyric - "a window in every room". And, finally, his piece where he went to those shops in New York after Joe's death. For me, Christopher really captured to mood, excitement and narrative of that time - which I certainly thought I'd never see after a decade of virtual silence from Joe - perfectly. The wonders of the internet...