Let's Rock Again
by Dick Rude
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Actor: Dick Rude, Luke Bullen, Martin Slattery, Scott Shields, Tymon DoggDirector: Dick Rude
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Dick Rude
Editor: Dick Rude
Producer: Dick Rude
Producer: Joe Strummer
Editor: Arnaud Gerardy
Producer: Lucinda Strummer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 67 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Let's Rock Again
DVD Review: MOST ANNOYING AND OBSESSIVE GROUPIE/FAN MAKES SADDEST ROCKUMENTARY
Summary: 5 Stars
I knew Joe Strummer in person long before I knew him.
I only come to realize who he was now.
He was a good man. (Choir sings Bob Dylan song: He was a friend of mine)
This is the saddest film of my friend that could possibly be made, and the best.
Okay, so he was not actually my friend. He was friend to all who met him and made everyone happy without distinction. I met him in 1987-1988 during the filming of the movie Walker. A kinder, more diplomatic, funnier man has never breathed.
In this film while seated on a sidewalk with a diverse group of teens, he is asked among other bizarre questions would he prefer to be a garbageman or a doorman. He chooses garbageman. Gets to hang off the back of a truck and see the city.
I met him during the filming of Sir Alex Cox's Walker - Criterion Collection. Get the Criterion edition to see the real Joe, in one of the Extra features of the making of the film. Joe gets a large part, very wittily yet wearily (essence of punk) done in that extra feature. See the real Joe. Here we see him a 49 year old getting increasingly overweight, struggling as he repeatedly states for survival and to feed his three daughters (one of whom he sends back intro the pool in this film) struggling with an increasingly censored and monopolistic record and broadcast industry, and soon too soon to die.
To see Joe Strummer in his glory get Sir Alex's The Alex Cox Collection (Straight to Hell/Repo Man/Death and the Compass/Three Businessmen) as Joe plays a greaser (with real motor grease) bank robber, the only glowing feature of the film besides Miss Balgobin and the Pogues. Very different from his happy go lucky hippy in Walker.
Joe also contributed a song to Sir Alex's Sid & Nancy - Criterion Collection or Sid and Nancy 30th Anniversary Edition, etc., where he met the recorder of this film, Dick Rude, in post-production. Dick played the murderous punk in Cox's Repo Man (Special Edition) and a prison guard in Sid and Nancy. Dick and Joe went on to play business partners in Walker, but most of their bits fell to the cutting room floor. Scriptwriter Rudy Wurlitzer gives much insight into Joe in the running commentary section, and his cringing as he observed at a NYC premier the audience was not buying into this revolutionary, anarchist, anachronistic movie.
Before his long eleven year retirement, Joe's finest final work may possibly by his excellent Walker soundtrack, with Xander Schloss of the Circle Jerks, in Repo Man the inspiration and prototype for Napolean Dynamite.
In this film, recorded in the final year and half of Joe's life, before his sudden death at fifty in 2002, we see Joe, admittedly, as he says, long in the tooth, fighting for a comeback and survival. This brief 68 minute film leaves much unanswered, inclduing cause of death, but does grant an intimate view of the public Joe, along with a good deal of concert material, with much more in the extras section, basically reggae rehash from the seventies like Pressure Drop, Armegedon ("Lot of people go to sleep without supper tonight; lot of people go to sleep without justice tonight. Stand up and fight!") and of course Toots and the Maytalls immortal anthem "The Harder They Come, The Harder They Fall" mistakenly here entitled (not by Joe) as "The Bigger They Come . . ." and
available here at The Harder They Come - Criterion Collection and The Harder They Come.
In any case, the Q&A extra on this disk answers a lot. Does Dick mean to say zenith when he says nadir, or is this the nadir? In any case it is very sad, and rather real. No mention of the victorious appearance on the Letterman Show.
At this time, coming myself through the hard waters of personal crisis in 2001-2002, the Mescaleros came to my small northeastern city to a small venue in a rough neighborhood. I was too sad then to go, but figured I could catch them next time around. I shall ever regret not going, as Joe in this film kindly and patiently gives all of his time to each one who comes, and I might have seen my gracious friend once more, for the last time, to cry my pain and he to laugh his. Now we can see him on DVD.
Perhaps a more comprehensive and informative DVD biopic migfht be the soon coming The Future is Unwritten-DVD Documentary or the other dozen things available including the German only Viva Joe Strummer, But this film shows close buddy Dick Rude following Joe around upon that sad last tour, keeping a mini-DV camera up Joe's nostrils. It begins with Tom Snyder's 70's show interviewing the Clash, and ends with the bare, unexplained words "Joe Strummer 1952-2002"
Word to Dick: Keep your camera steady when doing those concert shots. Never mind the quick jump MTV style cuts to make up for the fact you had no tripod. Just set it on your shoulder and do not move, please. And get out of his nostrils.
Worth watching well, even if the part of Joe looks played by the middle Dustin Hoffman.
But to see the great Joe Strummer struggling to give away his concert tickets on the boardwalk at Atlantic City (and putting money into a fellow busker's cup), and struggling to get into a radio station to plug his CD and concert tour ("I used to be in the Clash!") this is real sad, and pitiful, man. Joe was a fine and noble man. This is sad.
Yeah, see this, and learn the reality of the music industry, and of age (there are no second acts in anglo America), and of Joe.
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