{"id":64263,"date":"2019-12-08T18:02:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T16:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/?p=64263"},"modified":"2019-12-08T18:03:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T16:03:17","slug":"london-opgraderet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/london-opgraderet\/","title":{"rendered":"London Calling-video opgraderet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/377940176?color=79e0c8&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Har tidligere her bragt videokunstneren Nacho&#8217;s restaurerede v\u00e6rker med b\u00e5de David Bowie og Echo and the Bunnymen. Nu har han ogs\u00e5 kastet sig over The Clash, hvis &#8216;London Calling&#8217;-video i g\u00e5r blev lagt op i hans optimerede version, med lovning om mere The Clash p\u00e5 vej snart. Her Nacho&#8217;s detaljerede kommentarer til den &#8216;nye&#8217; video, som demonstration for med hvilken ih\u00e6rdighed, entusiasme og k\u00e6rlighed til den ypperste kvalitet, han arbejder&#8230;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Now Get This<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>It is impossible to say what the greatest Clash song is. Checking my own Clash favorites playlist, I could maybe narrow it down to 10 songs. Certainly London Calling would be in that Top 10. In \u201978 &amp; \u201979 I had a few chart \u201cPunk\u201d singles \u2013 Undertones, Buzzcocks, Gen X &amp; I think Tommy Gun &amp; Cost of Living EP by The Clash. But it was with London Calling that I began to really get into them. I was not alone. By January 1980 the single was No. 11 in the UK charts, the band\u2019s biggest hit thus far. DJ Annie Nightingale had made a bet with Joe Strummer that London Calling would make the UK Top 10 without them appearing on Top of the Pops, the stake being a Cadillac. When the record peaked at number 11, Nightingale was saved by a listener who donated a Cadillac. The band subsequently auctioned it to raise funds for the recession hit steel town of Corby.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Live By the River<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I remember seeing the London Calling video, and being mighty impressed by the swagger of the band, apparently oblivious to the dark London night &amp; lashing winter rain.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The promo was directed by British film maker, DJ &amp; musician, Don Letts. Letts had already directed several Clash music videos, as far back as White Riot in 1977. Later, in 1984 he co-founded Big Audio Dynamite with Clash guitarist Mick Jones. In 1990 Letts directed the documentary, The Clash: Westway to the World.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>London Calling was shot at the beginning of December 1979. The video shows the band playing the song on a barge moored next to Albert Bridge on the south side of the River Thames. It was a cold and rainy night, which probably made for a very unpleasant shoot, but suits the apocalyptic lyrics of a drowned London.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Wheat Grown Thin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The video legacy of The Clash, like many other great artists, is not being given proper love &amp; respect. Old fans, new fans and musical historians alike rely on the videos in circulation to remember, understand &amp; enjoy facets of an artist, that listening to the music alone cannot provide.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Leading the pushback against the seeming indifference of many artists \/ their estates \/ management \/ labels etc. is Neil Young, with his magnificent &amp; ever expanding online treasure trove, Neil Young Archives. Meanwhile the material online of many other important artists is in appalling quality. Or worse; festering in an archive unseen and sometimes even undigitized from the original celluloid, and therefore deteriorating year by year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Clash are a case in point. The \u201cofficial\u201d sources of the London Calling promo [Clash YouTube channel, Essential Clash DVD, iTunes store downloads etc.] are a mess. The various versions available are obviously not mastered from first generation sources, and are in low definition. Most of them are running at about 3 or 4% too slow. The audio quality of them is bad, presumably from the original 40-year old soundtrack. At least the YouTube version is complete, featuring the Big Ben scene at the beginning &amp; the shot of the Thames in the fade-out. Whereas the versions on the Essential DVD &amp; other sources, omit the intro and just after Topper Headon\u2019s last cymbal crash, before the song has even finished its fade-out, whilst Strummer is still \u201calike alike alike-ing\u201d the video just abruptly ends.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Won\u2019t You Give Me a Smile?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And so, collecting together and combining all the video sources I could find, and dubbing in the excellent 2013 Sound System Box Set remaster of London Calling, I have tried to create an improvement on what\u2019s currently out there. It\u2019s far from perfect, but it\u2019s better than anything else I\u2019ve seen in circulation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This is the first of several Clash video restorations I have in mind.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Hope you dig it!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With thanks to my three Clash mates, Adam, Pete &amp; Richard for providing invaluable info, some of which I quote almost verbatim.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Credits<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Video Source:<br>The Clash \u2022 London Calling \u2022 Original promo video \u2022 Directed by Donn Letts \u2022 Shot in London, December 1979<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Audio Source:<br>The Clash \u2022 London Calling \u2022 2013 Sound System Remaster \u2022 Recorded at Wessex Studios, London \u2022 August, September, November 1979 \u2022 Released December 7, 1979<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Musicians:<br>Joe Strummer \u2022 Lead vocals, rhythm guitar<br>Mick Jones \u2022 Lead guitar, backing vocals<br>Paul Simonon \u2022 Bass, backing vocals<br>Topper Headon \u2022 Drums<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Guy Stevens \u2022 Production<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/london-opgraderet\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/london-opgraderet\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Har tidligere her bragt videokunstneren Nacho&#8217;s restaurerede v\u00e6rker med b\u00e5de David Bowie og Echo and the Bunnymen. Nu har han ogs\u00e5 kastet sig over The Clash, hvis &#8216;London Calling&#8217;-video i g\u00e5r blev lagt op i hans optimerede version, med lovning om mere The Clash p\u00e5 vej snart. Her Nacho&#8217;s detaljerede kommentarer til den &#8216;nye&#8217; video, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/london-opgraderet\/\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s videre <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">London Calling-video opgraderet<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/london-opgraderet\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/london-opgraderet\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-rocknroll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}