FWD.I am truly sorry I missed this one, is there anybody I could ask to upload this one again ? Thanks in advance!
I had heard the Strummer one before do we know why he turned it down ?Strummer would have been a good choice for Southpaw.
Nothing directly said, but this kind of says a lot:I had heard the Strummer one before do we know why he turned it down ?
What convoluted nonsense. Is he trying to say that Joe just wasn't impressed by the music / the whole idea? That's the impression I get from Joe's interview snippet above. Strange how Morrissey always frames it as "So-and-so approached me" - only for them to say that his team did the approaching.Morrissey's version from the Maladjusted diaries reads very differently, one of those cryptic tales, where you can't tell if he's even serious.
"Joe Strummer expressed interest in producing Maladjusted, and I felt quite charged by this. It seemed like a nice wrangle-tangle. Joe takes Boz aside to explain that he can't produce fire without smoke, and as my school uniform tightens around me, l am not sure that I could face a halo of smoke day-in-day-out, since I could never personally inhale. The notion of smoke in the body seemed as natural as gulping gasoline, but this I put down to my own personal failings. Linder steps forward and says, 'Joe doesn't deserve you,' and confusion multiplied. I remain what I have been made. Something was testing me out. Maybe the Joe day would eventually arrive, but it hadn't yet. A few years later, Joe was dragooned into death, and, had he produced Maladjusted, a no doubt marginal footnote on his empirical cv would state that he had been one of several Morrissey producers who had joined the conga line to the hidden beyond.
I smiled weakly and contacted Steve Lillywhite."
Technically he only says that Joe expressed interest, not that he approached him. That part doesn't contradict what Joe said. ("I’ve got a plan for Morrissey."; "And I threw that in to see what they’d say, and Morrissey threw it right out!")What convoluted nonsense. Is he trying to say that Joe just wasn't impressed by the music / the whole idea? That's the impression I get from Joe's interview snippet above. Strange how Morrissey always frames it as "So-and-so approached me" - only for them to say that his team did the approaching.
Still gives the impression that Joe was behind the request, though. No idea what Moz is getting at with the 'inhaling smoke' thing.Technically he only says that Joe expressed interest, not that he approached him. That part doesn't contradict what Joe said. ("I’ve got a plan for Morrissey."; "And I threw that in to see what they’d say, and Morrissey threw it right out!")
Joe was notoriously fond of marihuana, so producing a fiery record without smoke was probably out of the question...?Still gives the impression that Joe was behind the request, though. No idea what Moz is getting at with the 'inhaling smoke' thing.
Morrissey's version from the Maladjusted diaries reads very differently, one of those cryptic tales, where you can't tell if he's even serious.
"Joe Strummer expressed interest in producing Maladjusted, and I felt quite charged by this. It seemed like a nice wrangle-tangle. Joe takes Boz aside to explain that he can't produce fire without smoke, and as my school uniform tightens around me, l am not sure that I could face a halo of smoke day-in-day-out, since I could never personally inhale. The notion of smoke in the body seemed as natural as gulping gasoline, but this I put down to my own personal failings. Linder steps forward and says, 'Joe doesn't deserve you,' and confusion multiplied. I remain what I have been made. Something was testing me out. Maybe the Joe day would eventually arrive, but it hadn't yet. A few years later, Joe was dragooned into death, and, had he produced Maladjusted, a no doubt marginal footnote on his empirical cv would state that he had been one of several Morrissey producers who had joined the conga line to the hidden beyond.
I smiled weakly and contacted Steve Lillywhite."
I would imagine that the legal implications of cancelling a tour are far worse than pulling out of a support slot. The contracts are hugely different.It was indeed Jo Slee.
From Dave Simpson's "Manchester's Answer To The H-Bomb", Uncut, 1998
"'He was very ill with depression,' says Jo Slee. 'He wasn't really fit to go on the road, although I didn't know how ill he was until he really began to come apart at the seams.'
Jo won't say what Mozzer was depressed about.
'I really couldn't say,' she insists. 'Morrissey's suffered from depression all his life, more than anyone else I know. It's about repressed feelings, repressed emotions, repressed pain. It needs treatment. He was taking anti-depressants at the time because he was desperate to get out on the road, he really wanted to do the dates. But it was just too much for him.'"
Don't think this necessarily contradicts Morrissey's explanation. It's no secret that he needs everything to go his way to function properly and feel remotely comfortable, so someone like Bowie putting further pressure on him, when he was already in a bad state, must have been unbearable.
Interesting that he went to Japan just shortly after. Perhaps he felt more comfortable with it because it was something he had more control over.
(Bit of a sidenote but the notion implied by the author that "Mozzer" needed something to be depressed about is ridiculous and shows how misunderstood this mental illness was and still is.)
Medium. It's now being released also on double vinyl!Anyone buy this? How is the sound quality?