"TELECAST OF THE DEAD"
I have no idea who the girl on the right is.... she is known only as Cynthia..... But Sid, Nancy and Stiv Bators are all deceased.
This was created within stumbling distance from the Chelsea Hotel within weeks of Nancy's horrific murder on 9/18/1978. This was before terrorism hit state side and when the real enemy of the streets was cocaine cowboys and heroin junkies........
Makes you kinda miss the good ol days.
There is a funny comparison to THE SEX PISTOLS sounding like THE WHO... which is hysterical. This guy who calls in is a typical nosey new york jerk.... hes babbling onward about political statements...... The Who was a political band? lol..... OKAY......
I remember the WHO quite fondly since i used to really relate to them. The only thing about THE WHO being political may stem over who rules the streets at night .... ala mods and rockers. Aside from songs about masturbation and violence there weren't a whole lot of international politics going on there......
Politics wouldn't really hit the front page until the Clash.. and the Pistols too ... well, to an extent. It is somewhat difficult to watch this video because I find Nancy nausiating. Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders said that she was really that bad in real life. Punks actually nicknamed her Nausiating Nancy. She claims she is a music manager and is alligned with the big players like Virgin and Warner Brothers which is pretty funny......
The major labels knew the name SEX PISTOLS.... but they did not know the players. In fact when the band broke up nobody knew who Johnny Rotten was. ROtten called up asking for money and the record company hung up on him.
These outrageous claims started to take life a good 11 years after the band broke up. The Pistols took on a much more larger prominence in America due to many licensing deals. Many T-shirt companies and record re-issues pumped new blood into the franchise. Otherwise when you look at what happend during the ANARCHY tour you will find that very few Americans even raised their eyebrows to the entire thing.
I was able to get inside the Chelsea Hotel out of morbid curiosity. I got into the lobby and found that it was very small. I looked down the hallway where Sid and Nancy lived in room 100... or 101 etc. The bellman asked. CAN I HELP YOU? and I said.. hmmmmmm yeah.. i just popped in to take a better look at that BOtello over there... (there was a large Botello painting on the wall). He cheered up a bit. The Chelsea will toss you out if they think you are a gawker and looking for the Sid and Nancy room. That room is supposedly haunted and it is sealed up now.
On the outside of the Hotel is a plaque where all these famous people stayed. Malcom... or Sid.. painted the name SID over it for an album cover shot. It was pink lead paint. You can still see traces of the letters on it and where the hotel had it sandblasted off. I think Malcom got someone to vandalize that sign. I think Malcom was too cowardly to do it himself and I think Sid was too much of a junkie to care one way or the other........
This entry was posted at 6:19pm, 2007 by ted cantu, creator of the fascube network
I have no idea who the girl on the right is.... she is known only as Cynthia..... But Sid, Nancy and Stiv Bators are all deceased.
This was created within stumbling distance from the Chelsea Hotel within weeks of Nancy's horrific murder on 9/18/1978. This was before terrorism hit state side and when the real enemy of the streets was cocaine cowboys and heroin junkies........
Makes you kinda miss the good ol days.
There is a funny comparison to THE SEX PISTOLS sounding like THE WHO... which is hysterical. This guy who calls in is a typical nosey new york jerk.... hes babbling onward about political statements...... The Who was a political band? lol..... OKAY......
I remember the WHO quite fondly since i used to really relate to them. The only thing about THE WHO being political may stem over who rules the streets at night .... ala mods and rockers. Aside from songs about masturbation and violence there weren't a whole lot of international politics going on there......
Politics wouldn't really hit the front page until the Clash.. and the Pistols too ... well, to an extent. It is somewhat difficult to watch this video because I find Nancy nausiating. Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders said that she was really that bad in real life. Punks actually nicknamed her Nausiating Nancy. She claims she is a music manager and is alligned with the big players like Virgin and Warner Brothers which is pretty funny......
The major labels knew the name SEX PISTOLS.... but they did not know the players. In fact when the band broke up nobody knew who Johnny Rotten was. ROtten called up asking for money and the record company hung up on him.
These outrageous claims started to take life a good 11 years after the band broke up. The Pistols took on a much more larger prominence in America due to many licensing deals. Many T-shirt companies and record re-issues pumped new blood into the franchise. Otherwise when you look at what happend during the ANARCHY tour you will find that very few Americans even raised their eyebrows to the entire thing.
I was able to get inside the Chelsea Hotel out of morbid curiosity. I got into the lobby and found that it was very small. I looked down the hallway where Sid and Nancy lived in room 100... or 101 etc. The bellman asked. CAN I HELP YOU? and I said.. hmmmmmm yeah.. i just popped in to take a better look at that BOtello over there... (there was a large Botello painting on the wall). He cheered up a bit. The Chelsea will toss you out if they think you are a gawker and looking for the Sid and Nancy room. That room is supposedly haunted and it is sealed up now.
On the outside of the Hotel is a plaque where all these famous people stayed. Malcom... or Sid.. painted the name SID over it for an album cover shot. It was pink lead paint. You can still see traces of the letters on it and where the hotel had it sandblasted off. I think Malcom got someone to vandalize that sign. I think Malcom was too cowardly to do it himself and I think Sid was too much of a junkie to care one way or the other........
This entry was posted at 6:19pm, 2007 by ted cantu, creator of the fascube network
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