{"id":2238,"date":"2013-08-21T11:38:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T15:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2013-08-21T11:38:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T15:38:26","slug":"on-joe-strummers-birthday-reinvention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2013\/08\/21\/on-joe-strummers-birthday-reinvention\/","title":{"rendered":"On Joe Strummer&#8217;s Birthday: Reinvention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time to raise a glass to NTSIB patron saint, Mr. Joe Strummer a.k.a. Woody Mellor a.k.a. John Mellor, who would have been 61 years old today. <\/p>\n<p>Joe had a nervous energy that never let him settle in one place, one role, one style, one identity for too long, as outlined in a new article from <i>The Atlantic<\/i> website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2013\/09\/clash-warfare\/309432\/\" target=\"blank\">Joe Strummer and Punk Self-Reinvention<\/a>. When Joe passed away in 2002, he was in the midst of yet another renaissance with his young group of lads, the Mescaleros. Below is an artifact from that time, a full Mescaleros show filmed at the Roseland Ballroom in New York in 1999. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_-0RZy1LURxE\"><div id=\"lyte_-0RZy1LURxE\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/-0RZy1LURxE\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/-0RZy1LURxE\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/-0RZy1LURxE\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to raise a glass to NTSIB patron saint, Mr. Joe Strummer a.k.a. Woody Mellor a.k.a. John Mellor, who would have been 61 years old today. Joe had a nervous energy that never let him settle in one place, one role, one style, one identity for too long, as outlined &#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2013\/08\/21\/on-joe-strummers-birthday-reinvention\/\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[682,85,471,1837],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-joe-strummer","tag-joe-strummer-and-the-mescaleros","tag-links","tag-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>On Joe Strummer&#039;s Birthday: Reinvention -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Celebrating 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