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"Fresh off their November Bringing It All Back Home Tour of the\nU.K., Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros are heading into the studio\nto record their third album. The follow-up to 2001&amp;apos;s Global a\nGo-Go is due out in the spring.\nDuring the last tour, the former Clash frontman and his band\nroad-tested new tracks like &amp;quot;Dakar Meantime&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Coma Girl,&amp;quot; and\nrevisited Clash favorites like &amp;quot;Rudie Can&amp;apos;t Fail&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;(White Man)\nin Hammersmith Palais.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The idea is to go all around the island\nand bash the new tunes out and kick them into shape,&amp;quot; Strummer\nsays. &amp;quot;There&amp;apos;s nothing better for a tune, &amp;apos;cause you can change it\nnight by night. You say, &amp;apos;That bit sounded boring -- get rid of\nit.&amp;apos; And after you play ten dates, it&amp;apos;s a lean, muscular\nanimal.&amp;quot;\nThe Mescaleros&amp;apos; November 15th gig at London Acton Town Hall\nfeatured a special surprise -- fellow Clash\nguitarist/singer/songwriter Mick Jones took the stage with Strummer\nfor the the first time in nearly twenty years to perform the\nClash&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;Bankrobber,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;White Riot&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;London&amp;apos;s Burning.&amp;quot; Strummer\nhad kicked Jones out of the band in 1983, after a tumultuous five\nyears together.\n&amp;quot;You sort of grow up and stop grousing,&amp;quot; Strummer says of his\nrelationship with Jones now. &amp;quot;You bury the hatchet, or you just\nsort of forget what the hatchet was.&amp;quot;\nA full Clash reunion may be in store for March 10th, when the\nClash -- along with the Police, AC/DC, Elvis Costello and the\nAttractions, and the Righteous Brothers -- are inducted into the\nRock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York. Strummer is not yet sure\nthey&amp;apos;ll play, but says if they do, expect to hear &amp;quot;White Riot.&amp;quot;\nAs for his take on why the Clash ceased to exist all those years\nago: &amp;quot;Maybe we said all we needed to say in a five-year blast. We\nput out sixteen sides of vinyl in five years. Maybe we could have\nstrung that out over twenty years -- and we&amp;apos;d be on the fifth side\nof Sandinista! right now.&amp;quot;\n\nInstead, right now, Strummer&amp;apos;s top priority is on the Mescaleros\nand getting the new batch of songs on tape while they&amp;apos;re still in\nshape. &amp;quot;We&amp;apos;ve gotta record them straight away -- bang into the\nstudio and knock them down,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;Remember: Musicians memories\nare very short.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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