I used to love the Sex Pistols. Man, I really did! When I was about 16 years old, my friend Paul Crowe (a true visionary; was reading Hunter S. Thompson before anybody), introduced me to their one and only album, Never Mind The Bollocks (Here's the Sex Pistols), and it quite simply blew me away. I had never heard anything so raw, so hard, so different, so angry, so REAL in all my life! After that, I was hooked on PUNK rock, MAAAANNN!!! It changed the way I heard music, and for a long while I couldn't listen to any other type. It was an important album for me.
And then along came the Filthy Lucre Tour, the Pistols reunion back in 1996. Ok, so I can handle that. The boys really never got their due, money wise, and according to some of the reviews their performances were amazingly energetic and heartfelt.
Fast forward to 2007. They goddamed do it again! And they're horrible. Steve Jones is a fat wad that can hardly get his sausage like fingers to form a cord, and Johnny Rotten (Lydon) is prancing onstage, going through the motions, pretending to 'bait' the audience with taunts like "I'm back, and I'm here to kick some bottom!" Some BOTTOM?!?!?! SOME BOTTOM!???!!!
I'm not gonna ramble on too much more about this, as I'm fearful I may deficate myself. But I will say that, in my opinion, Punk is truly D.E.A.D.! A bunch of 50 something ex-punk rockers going through the motions for money is about as non-punk as you can get. Thank GOD Jello Biafra & Henry Rollins are still around. SHEESH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"I'm back, and I'm here to kick some bottom!" What the hell????
I too have to express my displeasure over such a statement. Though I am a second generation punker, and not to nearly the extent Uncle E is...or was, but to hear that a once INCREDIBLY entertaining band as the Sex Pistols have sold their souls to the "Fountain of Musical Youth" is a testament that punk truly is dead. A simple "F-off" to the music promoters would have been the expected response to the notion of getting back on stage.
Though you wouldn't know punk is dead seeing the 14-somethings walking around in punk "costumes" with the Dead Kennedys on their shirts, but yes I agree, punk truly is dead!!!
By the way, I'm starting a punk band called "Steve Jones is a fat wad" Nice description!
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