Post by Fuggle on Jul 8, 2004 11:19:16 GMT -5
Beer Drenched Sex Pistols Rock L.A.
By Dean Goodman - L.A. (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 US concert in six years outside Los Angeles. The hailstorm may have been meant as an homage to the bands own anti-establishment roots, but drenched singer John Lydon was having none of it, labelling 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 '70s 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 Pavillion in Devore, 55 miles east of L.A. In July, the quartet dusted off their instruments for the first time since 1996 to play a London show marking their 25th anniversary. Guitarist Steve Jones told Reuters before Saturdays 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.
Saturdays show saw the Sex Pistols top a bill that included other British punk veterens such as the Damned and the Buzzcocks as well as young U.S. upstarts such as Blink 182 and Unwritten Law. During the bands one hour set, the irascible Lydon, 46, also managed to squeeze in pointed comments about the shows sponsers, 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 wrong beat during the tasteless Holocaust satire ''Belsen Was A Gas''. The played most of the songs from it's one studio album, the 1977 opus ''Never Mind The Bollocks, Heres 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 only take a week to make an album. ''Its 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 though it,'' he said.
By Dean Goodman - L.A. (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 US concert in six years outside Los Angeles. The hailstorm may have been meant as an homage to the bands own anti-establishment roots, but drenched singer John Lydon was having none of it, labelling 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 '70s 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 Pavillion in Devore, 55 miles east of L.A. In July, the quartet dusted off their instruments for the first time since 1996 to play a London show marking their 25th anniversary. Guitarist Steve Jones told Reuters before Saturdays 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.
Saturdays show saw the Sex Pistols top a bill that included other British punk veterens such as the Damned and the Buzzcocks as well as young U.S. upstarts such as Blink 182 and Unwritten Law. During the bands one hour set, the irascible Lydon, 46, also managed to squeeze in pointed comments about the shows sponsers, 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 wrong beat during the tasteless Holocaust satire ''Belsen Was A Gas''. The played most of the songs from it's one studio album, the 1977 opus ''Never Mind The Bollocks, Heres 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 only take a week to make an album. ''Its 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 though it,'' he said.