This is Rare.......
I had no idea this was even around. This is Sid and Nancy on NYC TV... channel 78 or something. Its a UHF channel long before the age of digital cable. There seems to be no censorship issues and the cussing is just part of the charm.
They both look somehow upbeat in this interview. Thats Dead Boy Stiv Bators sitting next to Sid. The Pistols had already broken up when this aired. If you listen to the interview Nancy talks about the shows she lined up for Sid at Max's Kansas City and some gigs lined up in Philadelphia... her home town.
These gigs would prove to be the very last time Sid would ever hit the stage as a performer. Nancy would be murdered by junkies in the upcoming weeks and Sid would be carted off to Rikers Island.
Then the story gets even stranger. On a recent episode of Biography it was announced that Sids own mother Anne Beverly injected Sid with the fatal dose of Heroin that would take his life. It was further mentioned that she did this deliberately in an effort to kill him. This would spare him the pain of 20 years in prison and the agony of being without Nancy. If this statement is true then Vicious was killed... or even.. murdered by his own birth mother.
Anne Beverly would later die in 1996 of a heroin overdose in east London.
Its interesting to watch this interview unfold knowing that the trail leads to nowhere fast.
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Ted Cantu is the creator of http://www.beautyloungestore.com he has contributed to several blogs and podcasts such as…..http://911copywriters.podomatic.com. He served as a top rated art director for Interactive Web Marketing groups in Chicago and New York City.
REAL CONVERSATIONS - Sat. January 14th.
Yes these guys were out of their heads half of the time but when they had something to say - they'd say it. This interview was taken from "Some Products Carri On... ". Its been a while since I heard it but its pretty straight forward. The Pistols shoot their mouths off every chance they get. And its usually quite interesting when the verbage pours out.....
This CD is worth getting if you can find it. Sid and Johnny Rotten were pretty interesting all around. This entire CD is packed with radio spots, interviews, and snippets of advertisements for, "The Great Rock and Roll Swindle" movie... which i consider one of the most important documents from that time period. You can get a glimpse at the complete lunacy of the whole thing.
The demos they talk about in this clip are somewhat dubious. I am not aware of any song they created that slams God personally. I have no idea what they are referring to. There was some deliberate pot shots taken to the deep south. They also take some broad swings at New York City with the song, "New York" which is funny. Punk started in NYC -- that is if you ask one of the aging depressed violent angry angst ridden ex-junkies. There is some dispute on where punk really started. The NY punks didn't really see themselves as punk. In the 1970's it was just considered the rock music scene.
The real Punk Rock scene started up in London in 1976. That means - the ripped up t-shirts, spikey hair - and the overall cartoonish look of the entire thing. That certainly didn't come off from the streets of Manhatten in the Village. I looked at the New York scene as a homeade sound with a lot of drug freak culture that was left over from the 60's -- aimless, sloppy and somewhat revved up while incoherant. The full blown three chord teenage punk bands came from the dirty streets of London.
Sid Vicious has some pretty profound statements in this interview. His views on racism always sort of stuck with me for years. His views on people just seeing themselves as people and not being classified as this or that.... rings true even today in this horrible Post-911 world. These guys were ahead of their time for what they were about.
This is a great time piece. Radio of modern times doesn't come close to this type of insightful brutal honesty. You would never hear an interview of its type on the air today.
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Ted Cantu is the creator of WebCrush and http://www.beautyloungestore.com he has contributed to several blogs and podcasts such as…..http://911copywriters.podomatic.com. He served as a top rated art director for Interactive Web Marketing groups in Chicago and New York City.
The Diggeable Sounds......
This is like groovy dance Clash.... Techno punk -- suave but a bit dangerous. Its likeable...
I like it for the simple fact that it sounds like something you hear on the BBC Radio 1 web site. This is like the tail end of something great you hear when you tune into the Chris Moyles Show.... But quite can't put your finger on.
They got a bit of a rave up in the NME. Which is a good thing.
I rather like these guys. The video is a bit off on this one. The mouth does one thing while the song does something else.
But all is forgiven.
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Ted Cantu is the creator of http://www.beautyloungestore.com he has contributed to several blogs and podcasts such as…..http://911copywriters.podomatic.com. He served as a top rated art director for Interactive Web Marketing groups in Chicago and New York City.
WHAT THE HELL
These guys only released a handful of songs, mainly this one in multiple remixes--- and were heralded an instant classic. Its like powdered soup.
If these guys were so prolific where are they now? Don't get me wrong, I adore, "I WANNA BE ADORED" but I would like to see more offerings from this "prolific wunderkind". These guys also have a page on Wikipedia which I find somewhat amusing. Oh great... just what I always wanted... their grammer school records.. WHO CARES.
This band only put out TWO studio albums... yep, count 'em... TWO. From those two albums the record companies put out no less than FIVE COMPILATIONS AND GREATEST HITS.. from two studio album releases which is absurd.
Somehow I want to care about that. I want to find meaning in that.
But I don't.
These guys had a great song, thats it, I let it go.
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Ted Cantu is the creator of http://www.beautyloungestore.com he has contributed to several blogs and podcasts such as…..http://911copywriters.podomatic.com. He served as a top rated art director for Interactive Web Marketing groups in Chicago and New York City.
"THE WORLD IS INDEED FLAT I SAID !!"
this is music.
....AHEM.... And amazing music at that. Echobelly - from the album, "Lustra" AKA.. GREAT RELEASE IF YOU CAN FIND IT. This came out a number of years back and its their last great poppy effort. The releases that followed were very dark and introspective. Echobelly was still MIGHTY in sound but kicking out a much different kind of sound.
The video is plain. I'll give you that. My own imaginings for what could be possible were more expressive and imaginative. Working off a small budget I doubt this label would have too much of a budget. In either case this band is their greatest special effect. This possibly explains why most of their videos are live performances of the band playing to the pubilc.
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Ted Cantu is the creator of http://www.beautyloungestore.com he has contributed to several blogs and podcasts such as…..http://911copywriters.podomatic.com. He served as a top rated art director for Interactive Web Marketing groups in Chicago and New York City.
This is Rare.......
