Rocktropolis Allstar Mag
June 10, 1998
Clash fans will have to wait a little bit longer for the highly-anticipated tribute album to the band.
The album -- whose once-simple title of Clash Tribute Album looks to be changing -- has been taken off the Aug. 25 release schedule at Epic Records and pushed back to a first quarter of 1999 release. Why? Well, Epic plans to release the Clash live album that Joe Strummer has been working on first, followed by the star-studded tribute set. While the live disc doensn't have a track listing or title yet, Epic hopes to have it out in October.
Though the Clash tribute album is pretty much in the can, Third Eye Blind has now added a track. Contrary to what lead singer Stephan Jenkins said to MTV's Carson Daly on Thursday (June 11), the band is recording one of the Clash's most successful and well-known songs, "Train in Vain (Stand By
Me)." Thursday night's MTV show was taped about a week ago, and this is what Jenkins had to say about their plans for the Clash album: "We wanted to do 'Straight to Hell' but the Indigo Girls are doing it [Ed. note: Heather Nova and Moby are actually recording it]... They asked us to do 'Train in Vain,' but everyone knows that one so we wanted to do something more obscure... We're doing 'Somebody Got Murdered.'" Not anymore.
As previously reported in allstar, the tribute album also includes Rancid, Korn with Ice Cube and Mack 10, 311, silverchair, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, as well as No Doubt, MxPx, the Urge, Face to Face, Unwritten Law, Cracker, and others.