The Clash - Fingerpoppin' (Rebooted)

Here's a word from Gerald Manns who remixed/rebooted this..."Well, like everyone I was extremely disappointed when CTC was released in 1985. I knew the new songs from different bootlegs, like Bring The House Down, Five Alive etc. All the years after I was hoping for the existence of some mastertapes that were smuggled out of the studio in munich by a mindful technician. But literature that was released decades later showed that Paul and Pete didn't take part in the recordings.
Last year I found two different audio editing softwares with different algorithms to separate vocals from an existing audio recording. The De-Berniator idea was born. So after ripping Joe's vocals from the tracks, cleaning them up (a lot of noisy bits, especially in The Dictator, had to be removed).
Next step was to get a good live performance of every song, copying Pete's drums beat by beat into a drum machine that sampled original drum sounds.
On songs The Clash didn't perform live I had to lay down the tracks in a Pete Howard stylee by myself. After that came listening, learning, rehearsing and recording guitars and basslines.
To get a better sound I had to buy a Les Paul to differ from my Telecaster sound (nice axe to have anyway). I had to add some backing vocals because the algorithms swallowed some of the football chants (didn't make them out as vocals). It took me a while to mix it all, but now it was time to kick it out of my house.
Especially in different Facebook groups are a lot of hate regarding the last line-up of The Clash. I think these were quite descent songs and a lot of fun to listen to now. For me, this is the CTC I expected and hoped for when it was released in 1985.
Feel free to spread these recordings wherever you like, maybe it will shine a better light on the last line-up.
Have fun!"
GMAN

[@giulioluzzardi7632]

I shall listen to this entire L.P. cos I have to know what that last Clash record might have sounded like if.........

[@rudybolo]

great effort --thanx for sharing

[@Straightdeal]

This album has been trashed by virtually everybody. I actually like it, well, not all of it, but songs Dirty Punk and We are the Clash are actually pretty cool imo, even without Mick Jones.

[@wizardtruestar]

Don't talk shop, finger pop! Nice work.

[@PetertheBeeandFriends]

I bought CTC in 85, I think what has been done here is top notch. Well done.

[@stephanvenner2939]

It's amazing how powerful and positive this songs sound without the synthetic disco production.

[@gerauldvellabrincat6241]

Can anyone tell me what the backing lyrics are when Joe is singing the chorus. Or can you put up all the lyrics to this song. Much appreciated if you could do this. PS. Or put up all the song lyrics to all the Joe songs on CTC. THANKS AMIGOS.

[@mutantproof]

Even after the vocals were ripped off the original tracks they‘re still hard to understand. Sorry, can‘t help here!

[@gerauldvellabrincat6241]

Thanks anyway fella. I keep playing this song. It's really enjoyable now. Better than that monstrosity that Bernie'tone deaf' turned it into.👍

[@alessandrosarnella9208]

I always thought this track was arguably the best off the ctc album, but this version is far far better.....

[@ccmaxWW2]

It's a great song. All in the album are.

[@crazyiscrazy1288]

@@ccmaxWW2 Then Bernie Rhodes came along and fucked them up

[@ccmaxWW2]

@@crazyiscrazy1288 right on

[@m.s7839]

On what album version this is based? The version on spotify doesn't have these backing vocals.

[@Heston68]

Based on the live version from Brixton in Dec 1984.