Talk:The Mescaleros

Mescaleros after Strummer's death
I'd like to add a sentence or paragraph on the Mescaleros after Strummer's death. I assume they just broke up and went their separate ways, but does anyone have any information? Are some of them involved in other notable projects? Did any number of them remain together as a group under a different name? -R. fiend 16:59, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

i don't think they pulled a joy division and reformed after joe's death. i have not heard anything else about them in a long time, but i don't know if they broke up for sure. i would just leave it as it is for now.

I thinks that's true. The band revolved more or less about Strummer.

Luke Bullen is playing in another band, and I think Slattery and Shields are too. Simon Stafford had a child and works as a postman now, playing in a few jazz bands, but not rock. Tymon Dogg was the only member that expressed a desire to continue without Joe. Jlee562 06:20, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

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Mondo Bongo
I wonder if anyone else finds the Mescaleros' song Mondo Bongo intriguing enough to to be worthy of it's own Wiki article. The song was popularized somewhat after it's appearance on the Mr. & Mrs. Smith soundtrack, and I have found only the most misguided information about the song, such as these faulty comments here. I was trying to figure out what this song is about, and without inviting original research here, I wonder if anyone has an authoritative citable source that explains it. A few intriguing facts: So, my guess is he is either a CIA agent in Jamaica flirting with a cute island girl with a flower in her hair and a round butt, or in southern Mexico fighting with the Zapatistas against the Mexican Federal government, and the CIA is on the phone interfering (again) in the internal politics of Mexico? I'd love to find out the real meaning, if there's a citable source. - Eric (talk) 01:46, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Jamaica is the world's 3rd largest bauxite exporter. Suriname is the only other major Latin-American bauxite exporter. Mexico is not a significant bauxite producer, so why are the Zapatistas mentioned?
 * "Pachinko" is a Japanese word for an arcade-like gambling machine. Is the song referring to Pachinko-like machines in Mexico's pseudo-casinos?
 * Is he saying "Latino caribo" or "Latina caribo"? Latino caribo is Spanish for "A Latin man from the carribean". Could the words in the song actually be "Latina caribo", which would simply be an improperly expressed "Latin woman from the carribean"?
 * "Mondo Bongo" means nothing in Spanish. "Mondo" is Italian for "world". (in Spanish it's mundo. As this is clearly written by an English speaker, and "mondo" is colloquially used in the Western United States to refer to big things, "Mondo Bongo" may mean "big drum", or, since it follows "Latina? caribo", does it refer to a Carribean girl with a big behind?

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The Minstrel Boy
Shouldn't this mention that this band did a version of "The Minstrel Boy" in the film Black Hawk Down?Vorbee (talk) 15:23, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

How did they get their name?
Does anybody know how they got their name? If so, it could go in this article. Vorbee (talk) 15:50, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

I have just done some research and found out that "The Mescaleros" is a name for an Apache tribe of Native Americans  - indeed, there is an article on them in Wikipedia. If the band got their name from them, this could go in the article. Vorbee (talk) 16:38, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Shouldn't the full article / band name be Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros ?
They didn't exist as a separate band in their own right, without Joe (apart from members working on Streetcore the year after Joe's death). 78.145.14.144 (talk) 19:26, 18 August 2020 (UTC)