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 (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, 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: JOE STRUMMER "LET'S ROCK AGAIN" DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
THIS IS A GREAT DOCUMENTARY DVD OF THE LATE JOE STRUMMER, THE LEGENDARY FRONTMAN FROM THE FAMOUS PUNK BAND - THE CLASH!!! THIS DOCUMENTARY IS ABOUT JOE'S LIFE AFTER THE CLASH. IN THIS DOCUMENTARY IT COVERS THE LAST 18 MONTHS OF JOE'S LIFE. HE DIED IN 2002. JUST LIKE HE ROCKED IN THE CLASH, HE CONTINUED TO TRY AND "ROCK AGAIN" THIS TIME WITH A NEW BAND CALLED THE "MESCALEROS".
JOE CHANGED HIS NAME TO JOE STRUMMER BECAUSE, AS HE PUTS IT, HE COUNDN'T PLAY ONE GUITAR STRING AT A TIME, HE HAD TO "STRUMM" THE ENTIRE 6 STRINGS ALL AT THE SAME TIME!!! HE ALWAYS PLAYED WITH A PASSION AND PUT 150 PERCENT EFFORT INTO IT!!!
THIS BAND WAS REALLY, REALLY GOOD. THEY WERE MUCH DIFFERENT THAN THE "CLASH". THIS BAND WAS MORE "ORGANIC" AND EVEN INCLUDED FIDDLES. HOWEVER, THEY FAILED TO EVEN BREAK-EVEN ON RECORD SALES OF THEIR FIRST ALBUM. THIS PUSHED JOE TO STRIVE HARDER ON THEIR SECOND ALBUM, TO TRY AND AT LEAST GET IT TO BREAK EVEN IN SALES. HOWEVER IT WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL EITHER.
THIS DVD SHOWS JOE TRYING HIS BEST TO BE SUCCESSFUL AGAIN, AND NEVER GIVING UP, EVEN UP UNTIL THE END. IT SHOWS HIM ON THE STREET, HANDING OUT "FLYERS" TO HIS BAND'S CONCERT TO BE PERFORMED THAT NIGHT. ITS SAD THOUGH, BECAUSE MOST OF THE PEOPLE DON'T EVEN RECOGNIZE HIM. HE TRIES HIS BEST TO PROMOTE HIS SHOW, BUT THE "STREET" PEOPLE DON'T SEEM TO CARE.
THE DVD CONTAINS ABOUT 5 SONGS PERFORMED BY THE "MESCALEROS" BAND. THEY ARE REALLY, REALLY GOOD!!! ITS SAD THAT THEY DID NOT GET THE RECOGNITION THAT THEY DESERVED. ANYWAY, YOU CAN ENJOY THESE 5 SONG PERFOMANCES. AND IN THIS DVD, YOU GET TO KNOW WHAT JOE WAS LIKE DURING HIS LAST 18 MONTHS ALIVE.
THE CLASH INCLUDING JOE STRUMMER ARE INDUCTEE'S INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME IN CLEVELAND, OHIO!!! JOE WAS WELL RESPECTED BY HIS PIERS AND THE ROCK & ROLL INDUSTRY. CHRISSY HYNDE OF THE PRETENDERS EVEN WROTE A SONG ABOUT JOE STRUMMER CALLED "THE BIKER". IN HER DVD "THE PRETENDERS LOOSE IN LA", SHE PERFORMS THE SONG AND DEDICATES IT TO JOE AND SAYS JOE "YOU BRING OUT THE BIKER IN ME"!!! ALSO, THE NEW ORLEANS SOUTHERN ROCK BAND, "COWBOY MOUTH" HAS A SONG CALLED "JOE STRUMMER". THEY PERFORM IT IN THEIR CONCERT DVD "THIS IS COWBOY MOUTH". (PLEASE SEE MY REVIEW OF THIS DVD).
IF YOU LOVE ROCK & ROLL AND IT'S STORY AND HISTORY, YOU SHOULD REALLY ENJOY THIS DVD, AND IN THAT CONTEXT I RECOMMMEN IT!!!
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.
DVD Review: nice tribute to joe strummer
Summary: 5 Stars
its both sad and wonderful to see Joe was really into doing what he was doing,he seems happy and excited about the music and his band and really wanting to play and see people happy and excited too sad he died when he was starting to do so well again after being missed so long....but also ...he was able to see it happen againDVD Review: A Lot of Soul
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought this was an excellent documentary though a short one (just over 60 minutes). If you are a Clash fan or a Joe Strummer fan... get it. This is a great companion piece for Global 'a Go Go. They cover quite a bit of the albums music and some Clash stuff. It is also a touching tribute and story of Joe as he is on the road again, on a much smaller scale than his arena days rocking with The Clash. They show that contrast and a couple of scenes really tell that story (Joe trying to muster up attendance to his concert passing out promo's on the boardwalk and also trying to get in to a radio station to get some air time on the stations intercom).
I enjoyed this very much and only wish it was longer.
DVD Review: Short and sweet
Summary: 4 Stars
If you are/were a fan of any or all of the musical influences that THE CLASH threw back at us then that alone should be reason enough to pick this up.Joe and company were continuing down that road until he was taken from us far too early.His music and spirit live on in this documentry.
johnnyrockwell64
Description of Let's Rock Again
Joe Strummer, the undisputed pioneer of punk and former front man for The Clash, is captured in this revealing and touching portrait. Dispelling the punk persona to reveal a die-hard performer who gives it all on-stage, then stays after the show to sign autographs for every last fan, the documentary hits the road with Strummer's new band, The Mescaleros, as they tour for their second album, Global a Go-Go. This insider's view was shot by filmmaker and long-time Strummer friend Dick Rude in the 18 months leading up to Strummer's death in 2002. An intimate and fascinating film, Let's Rock Again! includes revealing back-stage footage, touching personal interviews, and no-holds-barred live performances of Clash classics and new hits from The Mescaleros.General DVDs
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