Clash Live 1979-80

Oh but their roadies, especially Johnny Green . . . I always say I was never a groupie and kept to myself, but I’ll never understand how I got so close to three of their roadies and still never the courage to ever shoot them offstage. I remain in awe of the Clash, the best live band. I can summon up my feelings, so many years later. God bless the Clash. Forever.

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The Clash in England, June 1980. This is one of my best-selling photos. It glows!

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The Clash in England, June 1980.
This makes a great print, almost sepia toned, with the red accents.
I love how they are all facing each other. Breathless.

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The Clash in England, June/July 1980. I have a series of group and individual shots, all glowing from the back lighting and their sweaty bodies, their clothes clinging to them. So exciting!

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Clash, Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, March 3, 1980.
I was onstage cos cameras were forbidden on the floor.
The best live band ever (and they didn’t use nor need fancy videos or big stages to explode in front of us).
This print is highly sought by collectors.

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Clash, Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, March 3, 1980.
This print is highly sought by collectors.

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Clash, Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, March 3, 1980.

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Clash, Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, March 3, 1980.

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The Clash in their first west coast press conference, Hilton Hotel, North Beach, San Francisco. The Clash, by Bob Gruen has a double page spread in his Clash book. You can clearly see me sitting in the front row, with a camera sitting next to me (I had two cameras by then, one for color, one for b/w). I’m wearing one of my two punk dresses, a black dress I sewed in college. The clear indication are my naturally Shirley Temple curls. Ah, the Clash and SF, ah-mazing!

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I believe I shot this during in their West Coast debut, a benefit in San Francisco. I shot from the balcony and vividly recall the intensity of that night.

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San Diego, October, 1979. I remember that night well.
I met head roadie Johnny Green and he went home with me that night. That’s a story for another time.

Ah, the best bloody live band that ever performed in the entire universe since the beginning of mankind. I shot the Clash so many times, from San Diego to Santa Monica to San Francisco to Berkeley and throughout England: London, Bristol, Newcastle and elsewhere within a one and one-half year period. But I have very few shots that begin to convey what they were about.

My black and white on-stage Santa Monica Civic Auditorium shots were stolen from the lab. My color San Francisco benefit shots were developed very strangely by a lab up there. I usually shot from the balcony or standing on my big metal photo box from the audience. On rare occasions, like the Santa Monica Civic, I was on the side of the stage by Paul. I shot them any way I could and from every angle except on the floor directly in front of them.

Here are a few glimpses, but don’t ask me exactly where or when I shot them. I was so high from shooting speed. It’s all a marvelous blur also because I only shot at most of the venues once. And because I shot them within a brief period of time, their look didn’t change that much, but every time I shot them, they varied their clothes so much. I was just too fascinated to pay attention to mundane details like dates.