"I take it you have to be seventeen and pissed off or something... I honestly don't understand the excitement..."

First  of all, don't knock being seventeen and pissed off, that attitude got me through high school, and beyond. It's still nice to summon up those feelings at times.

I take it you are referring to the ode to Joe, and not Joe himself?

The song is simply a rocking tribute with some admittedly weak lyrics, but hey, I plead guilty to embracing any tune that gives Joe his due. Perhaps it even nudged a few of the uninitiated to dig into the Strummer/Clash archive.

Now, if you were referring to Joe, how much time do you have as I can write at length?

Peter T.