Stay Free - The Clash (cover)
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Wyatt Scott planning his next move with Stay Free by The Clash!
This song was inspired by a classmate of Clash guitarist Mick Jones - a man named Robin Crocker. In an interview with The Guardian in 2008, Crocker explained: "Mick Jones and I sat together at Strand boys' grammar school [in south London]. We had a fight over who was better - I thought Chuck Berry and he thought Bo Diddley. It was a hugely disciplinarian school. The headmaster used to have a wooden leg, so he got the nickname Hobbler. We were marched down to Hobbler's office to explain ourselves and Mick said, 'We were arguing about rock'n'roll, sir.' Hobbler raged, 'Rock'n'roll is not on the curriculum in this establishment!' and was so furious that all this gob landed on his lapel. Me and Mick fell about laughing and that was it - firm friends and the end of any respect for authority for ever. Mick had the longest hair and tightest trousers in school. I was a hooligan, basically, because I was bored.
After school I was working as a journalist and got laid off. I fell in with a bunch of people and we decided to rob some banks. I ended up in the Old Bailey. It was like being back in Hobbler's office. I ended up in a maximum security jail on the Isle of Wight. By the time I got out Mick had formed the Clash. One evening he came over with an acoustic and played me 'Stay Free.' Somebody once said to me it's the most outstanding heterosexual male-on-male love song, and there is a lot of truth in that. It's a memento of a glorious band, a glorious time and a glorious friendship. Unfortunately, I didn't Stay Free. I did a wages snatch in Stockholm and got banged up again."
"Stay Free" was recorded in 1978 in Basing Street studios for the Give 'Em Enough Rope album, and features a bass-heavy mix and very subtle extra instrumentation in the form of acoustic guitar and organ (the latter being played by The Rumour's Bob Andrews.
Robin Crocker, the subject of this song, nearly ruined the recording of the entire Give 'Em Enough Rope album before it had even started. Noted producer Sandy Pearlman, who was to produce the album, came to visit the band before a show in late January 1978, not realizing that there was a strict rule on the band and management being the only ones allowed in the dressing room before shows. Crocker, at this point working as a roadie/hired hand for the band, didn't know who Pearlman was and denied him entry, which led to Crocker punching Pearlman in the face! Legend has it that The Clash themselves were unmoved by the incident and simply stepped over the fallen Pearlman as they headed onstage, with manager Bernie Rhodes left to clean up Pearlman's bloodied nose. Luckily, Pearlman wasn't too offended by this incident, and still went on to produce the album.
In some biographies, Robin Crocker's name is incorrectly listed as Robin Banks. This was a humorous nom de plume that he used when working as a journalist for ZigZag magazine, making a joke of his previous criminal record.
"Stay Free" was first played on the 1978 On Parole tour and was a live favorite for the rest of Mick Jones' time in The Clash, featuring on successive American tours in 1979, '80 and '81. Amusingly due to the British colloquialisms in the lyrics, Jones would have to explain the meanings of some of the words to non-British audiences, particularly American ones. At a show in Chicago in 1979, he explained: "This is the appendix: Butlins means the nick. The nick means the penitentiary!"
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CHOZENProductions cheers
Nice one 🙂
Muy bueno che. ... Grs
Mick Jones and Joe Strummer in one person!
jajajaha
looks like Paul Simonon
Great! Cheers from Brazil! The Clash Forever!!!!
O Brasil é forte como as pessoas que o habitam, fomos colonizados, escravisados e mesmo assim somo um povo alegre e com muita vontade de viver dias melhores.
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Yes but surely if you do absolutely understand and appreciate Strummers lyrics then you must realise that as long you do live your life as an enslaved and colonised person you will always be in need of a riot wether it be white or black ?
Spot on sir 👏 2022 my favourite clash song
"If your in the Crown tonight, have a drink on, go easy, step light...Stay Free."
"...drink on me" - Nice Job Sir!
Ladbrokelads cheers Mate!
great my friend !!, Saludos de Chile !!!!
Thank you!
Great job again Wyatt. Thanks for the story behind the song.
You are rock, the clash
Bravo 🙌
From a late 50s black kid in New Jersey who should have been a hip-hop fan but loved Clash, I give you much respect
cheers my Brutha!
Bang on, Sir.
Cheers Gordon!
You are incredible, very Nice voice and mini solos guitare(these little part like a mini solo you know) (apologize for my English)
The Clash were the first band I ever saw as a spotty teenager back in 1970. You've done them proud. Nice work.
1970 eh ? OK.
@@Dizzer187 it was meant to be 1980, typos are always an issue when you’ve only got one functioning hand
Quality!!!
Class.
Patrick Gorman cheers Patrick!
It’s Friday night time to listen to Wyatt. Greetings from London SW1
Common Sense cheers Mate, love it!
awesome
Awesome, holy shit. Thanks for sharing the story behind the song.
Muy bueno ...está re chapa el mostró....
You caught the spirit (the ENERGY) of this song perfectly! 🤩
This is exactly like that: it goes ALL OVER the place!
Que buena interpretación!!!Saludos desde Buenos Aires:)
Tremendo
I dont have words to describe this ,really good job
Amazing skills: singing and playing guitar at the same time 👏🏽👏🏽
very nostalgic..👍👍👍
Very good!!!
Right on, my fave Clash tune, Wyatt you got some serious Moxy man, be lookin' for you on the charts soon...
cheers Brutha!
Keep em coming fella.
Thanks Andy, more Clash on the way!
Muy muy bueno. Parabéns !
very pretty cover !
thank you!
Great Mick style singing and wonderful Jones outro......loved it!
Cheapskates would be one that I'm sure you could do justice to.
You are a credit and a rare Punk gem!
Howard Tyler thank you Howard!
This is really great!
dexterpolyester appreciated!
Wonderful singing & playing！
名曲をありがとう😻
Great job - very authentic!
thank you Sean!
Love it!
thanks!
... che tipo!!! Complimenti ...
The best cover I've ever seen about this song.
Greetings from Brazil :D
Contender for my favourite Clash song and you do a fantastic job!! Any chance of Gates If The West?
Great cover mate bye the way I love the shirt
Your vids are fab mate. Keep em coming !
Lloyd Froger cheers Mate!
The sound and Video feels like I am in your studio. Quite immersive. Appreciate the cover and quality.
his a LEGEND
We'll burn it facking dowwm....... To a cinder. Give em enough rope was one of the first albums I ever bought, what an album that is !
Nice cover, man.
ありがとう♪♬♪
great cover well done
Richard Munro thank you Richard!
This is so great man!
Eres muy grande.tio!
good game boy !!!!! .... ;)
Joe Strummer is my inspiration ⭐️⭐️⭐️ what an awesome Cover so amazing !!!!⭐️⭐️⭐️
Kristin Paige thank you Kristin, Joe’s my number 1 hero as well! 😉🙏
Oh yeah ! I covered rudie cant fail song that’s my favorite
Kristin Paige great job, I love your voice!!!
Thanks man !!⭐️🙏🏻⭐️
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Clash city rocker.
Jeff Murray Hey Ho Jeff!
Nice
Como los argentinos estamos en todos lados (y mas si hay un tema de The clash) dejo mi like. Great performance, that feeling! may/22
"Robin Banks" lol, great cover
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Robin Banks was a twat, a fantastic song about an arsehole but this is such a universal song it can apply to any close relationship or situation just a pity it was written about such a prick, fantastic version mate
Good cover mate -what's the first chord over the last line of vocals ('Go easy')?👍
Let's jam if you're ever in sunny SoCal!
Daniel Cox I live in Vista CA
Daniel Cox what city u in?
Wyatt Scott ah shit no way man! I play bass (a Rick not a pbass like Paul but I've been wanting to form a band though)
Wyatt Scott in Lake Forest in OC... probably 30-40 min from Camp Pendleton (got out of the marines a few years back)
Wyatt Scott drop me an email I'll email you my number dan75169@juno.com
not bad i like clash too
May I ask what guitar effects you use? I want to sound the same
I'm plugged straight into my amp on this
Wow love your outfit are you actually British
no but my Dad grew up in England and then moved to the US in the 60’s after he graduated from Cambridge with a PhD in physics. He’s math smart, but has zero social skills. My mom, Irish and Scottish, thankfully offset his Dutch and German coldness a bit and you got me. The shirt i’m wearing is made by a guy that makes bespoke clothing and he lives in the U.K. his name is Gary Ladd. The shirt is a copy of a shirt that Paul wore, see first Clash album cover.
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