I Dreamed I Saw the Clash Last Night...

[jeffen69]

Ludicrously over-stuffed Clash post; dreams, boots, reminisces, mp3’s, links, videos and a hallucinatory revisionist defense of Cut The Crap - with guitar.

http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com/2 ... night.html

[eumaas]

Cue 101.

[Flex]

I dreamed I saw The Clash last night,
Alive as you or me,
Tearing through these quarters
In the utmost misery,
With blankets underneath their arms
And coats of solid gold,
Searching for the very souls
Whom already have been sold.

"Arise, arise," they cried so loud,
In voices without restraint,
"Come out, ye gifted kings and queens
And hear our sad complaint.
No martyr is among ye now
Whom you can call your own,
So go on your way accordingly
But know you're not alone."

I dreamed I saw The Clash last night,
Alive with fiery breath,
And I dreamed I was amongst the ones
That put them out to death.
Oh, I awoke in anger,
So alone and terrified,
I put my fingers against the glass
And bowed my head and cried.


P.S. One of my fave Bob songs, great stuff.

[matedog]

I dreamed San Francisco got nuked last night. I was in Oakland and apparently I was far enough away not to get incinerated immediately. I tried to head east to escape the radiation, but the cops stopped me just short of Walnut Creek (a town decently inland from Oakland) and made me head back. I spent the rest of the dream paranoid that I was getting radiation poisoning. It was quite harrowing actually.

[jeffen69]

Amazing responses (another scary dream plus someone who ran with the Joe Hill/St. Augustine/Phil Ochs/Billy Bragg etc. reference) considering I was too slack to post the damn link!

Come visit the dream Clash post at Music Ruined My Life and leaves us a comment!
http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com/ ... night.html

[Wolter]

P.S. One of my fave Bob songs, great stuff.

I'm pretty sure that was a poem by someone else, and by the time Bob came to play it, was already a folk standard.

Oh, wait...are you thinking of "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine?" That was the rewrite of Joe Hill...

[Flex]

Oh, wait...are you thinking of "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine?" That was the rewrite of Joe Hill...

Yeah, and it's one of my favorite bob songs.

[Dr. Medulla]

Hoy dreamt of Terry last night
And he fell out of bed twice
Terry can pin and mount Hoy
Like a butterfly

[Wolter]

Oh, wait...are you thinking of "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine?" That was the rewrite of Joe Hill...

Yeah, and it's one of my favorite bob songs.

Yeah, but Bob was just being the Weird Al of the 60s...

[Flex]

Yeah, but Bob was just being the Weird Al of the 60s...

Weird Al is a visionary

[jeffen69]

And here I worried about being too obscure in that title reference.

"I Dreamed I saw Joe Hill Last Night" was an old-left folk song (Pete Seeger, then Joan Baez) and was the starting point of Dylan's brilliant "I Dream I Saw St. Augustine". Years later Billy Bragg re-wrote the song as "I Dreamed I saw Phil Ochs Last Night" and just recently Yoni Gordon and the Goods set down "I Dreamed I saw Billy Bragg Last Night. "

I refuse to write "I Dreamed I saw Weird Al Last Night."

[Flex]

And here I worried about being too obscure in that title reference.

"I Dreamed I saw Joe Hill Last Night" was an old-left folk song (Pete Seeger, then Joan Baez) and was the starting point of Dylan's brilliant "I Dream I Saw St. Augustine". Years later Billy Bragg re-wrote the song as "I Dreamed I saw Phil Ochs Last Night" and just recently Yoni Gordon and the Goods set down "I Dreamed I saw Billy Bragg Last Night. "

Word. And it actually started out as a poem by Alfred Hayes, as Wolt mentioned, before being set to music by Earl Robinson a bit later. Baez's version is probably the "standard" most people think of, right? I think Dylan does an absolutely stunning rewrite with a great arrangement. From his JWH days too, so he's in top vocal and musical form.

Chumbawamba does a pretty straight rendition of it on one of their newer albums. It is... acceptable.

I refuse to write "I Dreamed I saw Weird Al Last Night."

I dreamed I saw Weird Al Last Night
Wacky as he could be
Said I to Al your career is ten years dead
It was never alive said he

etc.

[jeffen69]

You, on the other must must finish your most excellent song because it parodies the parodsit and everyone involved, with the likely exception of Joan Baaz (a.k.a. Phoney Joany"), could appreciate that.

P.S. John Wesley Harding is perfect set of songs plus it's the anti- Sgt. Pepper. It's in the middle of my top ten Dylan albums list.

[Inder]

McCartney did a great job of taking the piss out of JWH in Rocky Raccoon, I thought. But then, I love Macca.

Anyways -- as you were.

[eumaas]

JWH is great.

And Macca is a child molester.