Talk:The Clash at Bonds International Casino

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I removed the following text from the article page as I deem a link to an external auction site item from Wikipedia an inappropriate use:


 * This bootleg was founded at Yahoo! Autctions - Rare Clash - Live At Bonds CD

RedWolf 03:27, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

The auction was dead anyway.

I was there! Hooray!
I would love to have a copy of this album. My son and I went to this concert and it was a peak experience for both of us, the warmest, happiest Clash show you can ever imagine. The band was still all friends and we felt like we were their friends too. A great show! The place was huge and half empty thanks to the fire marshall. Ortolan88 20:32, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

This entry is misleading
There's no such Clash bootleg as "live at Bond's Casino" aside from maybe a CDR copy someone once made for a friend.

Bootlegs of this show that do exist (i.e. commercially released and professinally pressed bootlegs) include Bondage At Bonds, Trick Or Treat, and more recently Chaos In New York. One thing that is certain is that none of them were released by Columbia records!

Also, using allmusic as a source isn't very useful as they clearly gleaned all the info from the Black Market Clash website, who worked out this show was really the 9th of June from dated audience recording tapes that correspond with the wrongly dated official soundboard recordings.

Moburma 10:59, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

arena days.
This article is misleading in its references to The Clash's "arena days". While it is correct The Clash did play arenas towards the end of the group, these were either in the support slot for a select number of The Who concerts (Shea Stadium), or at the US Festival. The Clash never embarked on full scale arena tours, mostly playing theatre and concert hall venues, such as Bonds.211.30.52.219 (talk) 09:48, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:52, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Questioning artist reference
In the opening of this article, there is a reference to "New York musicians, including Pearl Harbor." There was a San Francisco band named "Pearl Harbor and The Explosions", fronted by a singer named Pearl E. Gates (legal name change). It was well known that Pearl E. Gates hung out with the Clash, moving to England after Pearl Harbor broke up. After she moved to England, she changed her name to Pearl Harbour, and released a solo album in 1981. Is this a reference to the same person, and should the article be changed to reflect this? (She was defintely not a New York musician.) I have no specific info on Pearl actually taking part in this event. Mediasponge (talk) 00:37, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Perhaps google could shed some light on the original author's source? Alcuin (talk) 04:16, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

I dug up a reference to the Bonds shows that says it was the same Pearl Harbour (new spelling) who acted as DJ for the shows. Bonds_81-05-28 Mediasponge (talk) 00:48, 19 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I was there. It was Pearl.  I was the original author.  Ortolan88 (talk) 19:34, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

During their US tour in early 1979, I saw them at the Harvard Square Theater - #9 on the list of the 40 Greatest Concerts in Boston History - and they were selling "Pearl Harbor Tour" tshirts with planes dropping bombs; I wore mine until it disintegrated. I wonder if it was meant as a double entendre referencing the singer "Pearl Harbour" although I do not remember seeing her with them in Boston, the opening act was Bo Diddley. Just the kind of joke they would have liked. BTW, a friend who was with me at the concert, a music critic for The Brown Daily Herald (our college paper), said he saw Village Voice critic Robert Christgau walk out in disgust Rgoya (talk) 06:11, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

I bought beers for the band
Yeah, I went to a few of the Bonds shows. Although the shows were sold out, the rescheduling forced some people to get rid of their tickets. During that time I worked at Sound One in the Brill Building on 49th Street. On 50th Street, the Paramount Building (now Hachette Filipacchi, I think) was being built, and during lunch I happened upon Mick, Topper and Paul watching the heavy equipment in the deep crater. I asked them, "Can I buy you a beer?" and they said, "Sure Mate." So I hurried to the nearest deli and hurried back with a sixpack, and handed them beers. They said, "Thanks Mate," and moved on. I guess I should have said, "Can I buy you a beer and have one with you?" ;-) Rgoya (talk) 05:47, 15 July 2014 (UTC)