HW: Sex Pistols

[stephe lindas]

HA! HA!, Reminds me of xHawkwind if they go on tour. This time the fans
would get cheated. Not Johnny. Cheers STEPHE
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastian Welton" <sebastian at WELTON.DE>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Sex Pistols


> On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 22:59:00 +0100, gingoblin at EASYNET.CO.UK wrote:
>
> >Don't think anyone's posted on this yet.
> >Just got back from seeing the Sex Pistols in London. They opened the gig
> >with Silver Machine!  To say I was surprised is a *slight*
> >understatement  :)     A question mark appeared above everyones heads as
> >they thought en-masse, "Am I really hearing that????!".   Classic.
> >Still, Lydon has expressed his like of HW in the past, so maybe Jonesy
and
> >the rest of the boys are fans too :)
> >
> >Dave
>
> From Yahoo (concert was September 14th):
>
> Beer-drenched Sex Pistols rock L.A.
> By Dean Goodman
>
> LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In true punk spirit, rowdy music fans have pelted
> the Sex Pistols with beer as the one-time scourge of the British
> establishment played its first U.S. concert in six years outside Los
> Angeles.
>
>
> The hailstorm may have been meant as an homage to the band's own anti-
> establishment roots, but drenched singer John Lydon was having none of it,
> labeling one thrower a "turd" and a "wuss," to the delight of the 50,000-
> strong crowd.
>
>
> The Sex Pistols, who briefly ruled the music world in the late 1970s with
> such incendiary anthems as "God Save The Queen" and "Anarchy in the UK,"
> reunited on Saturday to headline a punk rock festival at the Glen Helen
> Pavilion in Devore, 55 miles (90 km) east of Los Angeles.
>
>
> In July, the quartet dusted off their instruments for the first time since
> November 1996 to play a London show marking their 25th anniversary.
> Guitarist Steve Jones told Reuters before Saturday's show there were no
> plans for the group to perform again although he was eager for more
action.
>
>
> The band originally broke up during a calamitous American tour in 1978. It
> reunited in 1996 -- with original bass player Glen Matlock subbing for his
> replacement, the late Sid Vicious -- for a five-month world tour.
>
>
> Saturday's show saw the Sex Pistols top a bill that included other British
> punk veterans such as the Damned and the Buzzcocks as well as young U.S.
> upstarts such as Blink 182 and Unwritten Law.
>
>
> During the band's one-hour set, the irascible Lydon, 46, also managed to
> squeeze in pointed comments about the festival's sponsors, Levi Strauss; a
> local radio station; MTV; a long-haired fan; the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of
> Fame; and even his own drummer, Paul Cook, 46, for getting the beat wrong
> during the tasteless Holocaust satire "Belsen Was A Gas".
>
>
> The band played most of the tracks from its one studio album, the 1977
> opus "Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols," and ended with a
> cover version of "Silver Machine," a 30-year-old hit from British
> psychedelic rock band Hawkwind.
>
>
> Matlock, 45, said the Sex Pistols would be "daft" not to capitalise on
> their momentum and play more shows. Additionally, he said it would take
> only a week to make an album. "It's just finding the right week."
>
>
> Even though the band members are hardly friends, Matlock said the musical
> chemistry was unmistakable.
>
>
> "It's like an old comfortable shoe -- with a nail coming through it," he
> said.