The Clash: The Fillmore, San Francisco

EXCEPT FOR THE fact that they're probably the best performing band around, there's something almost superfluous to Clashness about the band's shows. Wait a minute – that don't sound right. Ummm... How about: All the socio-political trappings that surround everything the Clash do is rendered nearly superfluous in the awesome light of a Clash gig. No, that's not it either. Uh... oh, yeah: Exactly 15 years – to the day–after the Beatles played on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time (February 7,1964), the Clash did their first American; show at the Berkeley Community Theater.