FX Orders Series Based on Sex Pistols Guitarist Steve Jones
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This soundcheck from the Pistols Winterland show in SF (last of the 78 US tour) is more proof that Sid could actually play when he wasn't riding the "horse". Even when Rotten yells at the soundman to "turn Sid down", he was referring to the backing vocals being too loud in the mix. At one point Sid even leads off a Ramones song. Jones & Cook join in.... Rotten is not pleased - he never liked the Ramones!
Compare this with Sid's wasted sloppy playing at the actual gig later that night.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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But Vicious COULD play the bass. In a very rudimentary way, but nonetheless he could play it...you still get people saying "oh, they always unplugged Sid's bass when they played live...he couldn't play a note"...neither of which were true. Or that Vicious was 100% this clueless, illiterate goon, which wasn't true, either.Scramby eggs and bacon.Comment
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There actually were some occasions on stage where Steve would unplug Sid's bass or turn down his amp because he was playing especially bad that night. Eventually Sid started retaliating and unplugging Steve's guitar. Some of this can be heard in the Winterland concert from January 1978, though McLaren probably encouraged all this bullshit, so he could keep the "chaos" going.
But without Nancy & Heroin... and probably without McLaren, The Pistols probably would have made at least a few more records & Sid might have survived.Eat Us And Smile
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There actually were some occasions on stage where Steve would unplug Sid's bass or turn down his amp because he was playing especially bad that night. Eventually Sid started retaliating and unplugging Steve's guitar. Some of this can be heard in the Winterland concert from January 1978, though McLaren probably encouraged all this bullshit, so he could keep the "chaos" going.
But without Nancy & Heroin... and probably without McLaren, The Pistols probably would have made at least a few more records & Sid might have survived.
What that morphed into for some via the myth-making surrounding the legend of the Pistols is a belief that Sid couldn't play a note and was always unplugged or turned off.
As to the "what if's" and what might have happened had x,y and z not happened, one will never know.Scramby eggs and bacon.Comment
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Eat Us And Smile
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"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
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There actually were some occasions on stage where Steve would unplug Sid's bass or turn down his amp because he was playing especially bad that night. Eventually Sid started retaliating and unplugging Steve's guitar. Some of this can be heard in the Winterland concert from January 1978, though McLaren probably encouraged all this bullshit, so he could keep the "chaos" going.
But without Nancy & Heroin... and probably without McLaren, The Pistols probably would have made at least a few more records & Sid might have survived.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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They definitely shouldn't have harassed Johnny at home. His wife Nora isn't doing too well, she's got Alzheimers, if I remember correctly, so it had to be frightening as Hell for her to have a mob hanging around her house.
Mr. & Mrs Rotten have been together since about the same time he started PiL, so that's a pretty good run for a "celebrity" marriage. And she was well into her 30s when she met Johnny, who was barely out of his teens at the time. Doubt if anybody at the time thought the relationship would last long term.Eat Us And Smile
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A 70’s shock gimmick that people amazingly talk about in 2022. To me they were just a bunch of punks brought to the public by a slimeball who ended up with all the money the gimmick generated.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
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