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Interesting Don Letts interview

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Talks of the possibility of a definitive BAD release, and denies the existence of the fabled Clash On Brooadway reels!

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/60 ... don-letts/
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With the 30th Anniversary release of the seminal Clash documentary Revolution Rock
It's been 30 years since the Revolution Rock DVD? Wow, time flies when you're having shitty dvd releases.

But I've heard the dvd mentioned as celebrating a 30th anniversary before... of what? Rope?

edit: ah, the continuing 30th anniversary celebration I see. :shifty:

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"I know the Bond’s run was well-documented for your film Clash on Broadway. Do you have footage of the entire two-week run?
I filmed the first of the performances, but unfortunately all that stuff got destroyed. The only thing that remains literally is that clip in Revolution Rock, and there’s also a 25-minute extra on Westway to the World, and that’s only the stuff that survived."

I guess he missed TFIU.

Then again, when I asked him on myspace, he responded as such-

"The Don communication
Hi Andrew,
Guess they might do something when they wanna sell some more records.....The Don"
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Don must be out of the loop. There was a post or thread on here where someone was working for Temple and had been through most of it. I got information direct from Temple's researcher to confirm that. There is new Broadway footage in Temple's film and I have seen other bits. What may be the point is live footage. I have not heard of any but Temple's researcher said there was some live footage in the reels that were found.

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That’s what was so great about the whole punk rock movement: it wasn’t just about creating more fans, it was kind of saying, “Well, hey, if you got a good idea, you can have a big part of this thing as well.”

Nice.
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Sexcam! (Not Logged In) wrote:
sslivigo wrote:Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

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Heston wrote:Talks of the possibility of a definitive BAD release, an
Can we all together do something about that ?

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