What was that music the Clash used to play before concerts?

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Anyone know the intro music the Clash used to play before they stormed the stage and went into "London Calling" in 1981-82? It sounded like a spaghetti western thing, only it also featured an ominous pipe organ. You can hear it in the film footage from Bonds that's included on the "Essential Clash" and (I think) "Westway to the World" DVDs.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty sure it's Ennio Merricone, but what piece?

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Theme from The Magnificent Seven, I believe. AKA the Marlboro theme song, for anyone who can remember back that far to when smokes were advertised by electronic media.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I just found out. It's Morricone's "Sixty Seconds to What?" from "For a Few Dollars More."

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

...later adopted by Metallica, somewhat dubiously.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Hi old people!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

If I didn't have this walker, I'd tan your smartalecky-hide, you whippersnapper!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't the Ramones play the theme from the G, B & Ugly before their concerts?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Twenty years from now:

AdamL: 'Ere, lass, tell this old man about what beats that Dizzee Rascal used again.

Charlotte in NYC: Pfft. DIRECT NEURAL IMPLANTS ARE WHERE IT'S AT!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahaha!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

According to Ned's scenario, I will talk like a Dickensian barkeep when I am in my old age!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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