To cap off my evening I saw saw this glorious concert on Virgin Cable replay.

Bloody hell, what a band.

"Bodies" one of the greatest pieces of music of all time.

The riff.. then the speed.

"Jean was a girl from Birmingham..."

Oh to be young again.

Yeah, Johnny teached them to play the guitar the punk-way....


I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

"God Save the Queen" is Bowie's "Hang Onto Yourself" which is Cochrans "Come On Everybody".

When did Steve Jones grow into the Honey Monster?

Who cares, I wish I had been there.

early Pistols were very much J Rotten...He could have been in any band and they would have been the greatest...Then came Sid...


I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

My grandma could play bass better than Sid.

It was over by then.

Glen Matlock is back for "There'll always be an England".

My grandma could play bass better than Sid.



Cool, got a pic of her...


I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

I remember in the early days Johnny at the microphone being described as "spittle hanging from a stick".

I thought it was great.

This band were the real deal and had genuinely made people scared.

Jubilee Week 1977.. magic.

Then Johnny sold butter and when into a jungle.

Which may have been ironic....

Managed to catch one of their very last gigs in HUddersfield West Yorkshire...the noise was, as usual in punk gigs, pretty bad and to be honest they couldnt really play their instruments but it was more about the sheer energy. When I came out into the carpark we looked at our jackets which were covered, and I mean covered, in gob - disgusting. Within a short time they had split up whilst touring USA. A real legend of a band.



'some things, well, I can't refuse'

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"Managed to catch one of their very last gigs in HUddersfield West Yorkshire..."

That was the LAST one, raising money for striking firemen (literally over the road from the gig).

I live a mile away from where it was.

It got demolished and it's a Lidl store now.

I always point it out to visitors.

The tragedy with the punk movement is that it evolved only into a stupid fashion for emo kids.

Punk-Bad-Boy No 1 of all times:




I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

Sid was just dim.

I can't help diggin this:






I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

It's funny but at the time Sid was the dangerous one but in hindsight he was a bit pathetic. I reckon Jonesy was the tough one. After all wasn't he the one who lept into the audience of rednecks to thump somebody who spat at him?

I would have done the same if someone spitted at me on stage...Sid was probably always far too stoned to notice such...


I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

Sid used to make his face bleed by hitting himself with the bass.

Very dim.

The music was crap when Sid joined and they became comedy.

The best stuff is with Matlock.

We mean it mannnnnnn...

The best stuff is with Matlock

the man that got fired by Rotten for telling he likes The Beatles...


Blues Brothers


I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

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"Managed to catch one of their very last gigs in HUddersfield West Yorkshire..."

That was the LAST one, raising money for striking firemen (literally over the road from the gig).

I live a mile away from where it was.

It got demolished and it's a Lidl store now.

I always point it out to visitors.

Are you it was the last one? It might have been the last one in the UK, but as I remember they went on a US tour which didn't last long and they split? If you live a mile from where that gig was, you only live about 5 miles from me!



'some things, well, I can't refuse'

Great DVD. I love the interviews, it's especially funny when Johhny was on the bus shouting down to anyone on the sidewalk "hello poor people". He's too much. And then Cookie and Steve Jones eating double mash and pie at their favorite place. Both my wife and I always eat double mashed potatoes since this.

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Are you it was the last one? It might have been the last one in the UK

Yes sorry, it was the last one in the UK.

The Huddersfield Examiner carried a story about it a while back.



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Great show - great DVD
I was at the MEN Arena gig and they were tremendous...looking forwad to seeing PIL again in the summer too.

One of the last stages in which popular music (whatever popular might mean....) took itself seriously by truly thinking it has something to say to the world (a message, a rebel and irreverent social/political/cultural message to convey in this case). And may be the last time society and media took this message in that sense: something to hear and react and reflect (in any case society acknowledged receipt of it). From that time onwards music is only the show business. Just a show. Nobody cares about anything else (but Bono (and the Bonos like) ...who seems to think he knows something not related to music that the world must know...).

This thread reminded me to listen to the Bollocks again for the first time in years. Still as great as ever, I think it's timeless. "New York" is my favourite track; I've always thought it was a homage to the Dolls. Guitar is pure Johnny Thunders.

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One of the last stages in which popular music (whatever popular might mean....) took itself seriously by truly thinking it has something to say to the world

I totally agree with this.

Some British punk had a real message about real issues and was a genuine two fingers up to the filthy rich establishment.

The fact that Sex Pistols God Save the Queen was number one in Jubilee Week was brilliant.

It all got hijacked and assimilated in the end as they do with everything ( I blame Geldoff).

Some of the original 1960's rebels even got knighted.

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The best stuff is with Matlock

the man that got fired by Rotten for telling he likes The Beatles...


Blues Brothers

I thought he only played on Anarchy in the UK, and Vicious on Bodies. Rest is Steve Jones on bass.

Mathijs

Matlock is credited as one of the writers of GSTQ.

I see Sid is credited with bass on Bodies - I don't believe it - actually Wiki says his part was overdubbed and that I do believe.

Sid couldn't play bass.



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Matlock is credited as one of the writers of GSTQ.




..and also like the punkrocker that liked the Beatles 1977...


I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

The whole question of who played what on the Sex Pistols records is a heated debate.

Steve Jones would probably deck anyone who says it wasn't him. But Chris Spedding was hanging around.

Steve plays them live like on the record so I think it was probably him.

Steve "no bullshit guitar" Jones.

It was an awesome sound he got.

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"Jean was a girl from Birmingham..."

Well.. all these years I thought her name was Jean..

Of course her name was Pauline and she lived in a tree.

It makes sense now.

"She was a girl from Birmingham..."

Doh!



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One of the few groups i regret not seeing live.