What have we got for entertainment?

Click on over to MusicBizzFizz, a blog by long time Epic/Sony exec, Dan Beck, for some interesting tales from the industry frontlines of yore. This particular story might be of interest to readers of this blog - his memories of meeting the Clash for the first time. His marking of March 1 as the 30th anniversary of the band's first show in the US is a wee bit off (it's actually a little over 31 years), but I hate arguing semantics. Thanks to Andy Schwartz for the tip.

"As their US product manager at Epic Records, I had the phenomenal opportunity to be at that show in Berkley, California. Although it has been well over 10,000 days and nights since that moment in my life, what I remember most about their performance was the absolute punk energy and angst that they brought to the stage with a rock professionalism that no punk band that I had seen to that point could even remotely muster. I can only compare it to years later, the first time I saw Rage Against The Machine. It was angry intensity, musically and lyrical." Continued here.