Clash Album released April 8, 1977

The first album by The Clash was released in 1977 in the UK on this day.  One hundred thousand were imported into the US and sold out.  Eventually a US version was released.

Sid Vicious Found Dead-February 2, 1979

  Sex Pistols set the tone for the 1980s, even if they didn't intend to.....

Anarchy in the UK

Recorded October 17, 1976.....Get off your ass!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TZ_9-rbslo

Sid Kills Nancy--October 1978

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/09/from-rocks-backpages-talk-talk-sid-vicious-nancy-spungen

Our National Malaise....

(from Daydream Sunset...)

“We arrived in Berkeley the day after the riots in San Francisco following the verdict for the ex-cop who killed Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone. The six of us spent a month or so looking for a place to live. Most landlords rejected any thought of renting to us as soon as they saw our scruffy lot. Eventually, we did find a place. After listening to the landlord, who happened to be the second largest slumlord in the Eastbay, tell us how hard it was to be rich, we got the keys and moved in. Six of us in three bedrooms. We weren't a collective so much as we were a collection of people. We celebrated our new abode with a case or two of malt liquor and a gallon of wine. Bob Dylan's live album from Budokan was the newest album on our playlist. Jimmy Carter made a speech about a national malaise related to Washington's defeat in Vietnam and the corruption and fascist tendencies that had been exposed by the Watergate bust and investigation. The Sandinistas were our latest heroes as they fought their way towards an eventual victory in Nicaragua. Nicaragua's malaise was being wiped away by revolution.”

From History.com:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jimmy-carter-speaks-about-a-national-crisis-in-confidence

Review of Daydream Sunset by Fred Mills, editor of Blurt Magazine ( a fine music journal)

http://blurtonline.com/feature/daydream-sunset-the-60s-counterculture-in-the-70s/

The Clash at Tribal Stomp 2

A recording of the Clash performance at Tribal Stomp II in Monterey, CA.  September 8, 1979.....I write about this in Daydream Sunset....

http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=2598#comment-2877085

The Playlist

http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2015/08/if-daydream-sunset60s-counterculture-in.html