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Cool rock n roll photos
- Thread starter Chad-Chicago
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disclaimer ALERT i was in the bay city rollie's View attachment 3646165 not the bay city rollersi was a little bit tipsy when i posted [well it was christmas ]
I like your twist on the Steve Jones titfer.
Have you not seen the Metallica doc "Some Kind of Monster?" That's the band psychologist as featured in the film. He was brought in to help the band through James's first return from rehab. He's a "Stewart Smalley" type and watching Lars try to roll with the doctor's cliched bromides is comedy gold. Must-see. Also, great subplot with the band selecting Trujillo for the ride.
As for Ronnie Biggs, he was a notorious Brit that the Pistol's manager Malcolm McLaren had appear in the film "Great Rock and Roll Swindle" as the "new" Sex Pistols singer after Rotten bailed on the band after the last show of the US tour at Winterland in SF. Malcolm's gambit was that since he himself created Rotten, he could therefore replace him with an appropriately provocative substitute. "Anyone can be a Sex Pistol" was McLaren's stance in dealing with Rotten's departure. Not so, of course.
Instead of going on the planned SA trip with Steve and Paul, Rotten went on holiday to Jamaica with Virgin Records president Richard Branson, laying the way for Rotten to cut his Public Image Limited distribution deal with the label, which had become flush with cash off the surprise massive hit LP "Tubular Bells" several years earlier.
More details from Wiki (hey, you asked):
Ronald Arthur Biggs (8 August 1929 – 18 December 2013) was one of the men who planned and carried out the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He subsequently became notorious for his escape from prison in 1965, living as a fugitive for 36 years, and for his various publicity stunts while in exile. Biggs recorded vocals on two songs for The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, Julien Temple's film about the Sex Pistols. The basic tracks for "No One is Innocent" (a.k.a. "The Biggest Blow (A Punk Prayer)"/"Cosh The Driver") and "Belsen Was a Gas" were recorded with guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook at a studio in Brazil shortly after the Sex Pistols' final performance, with overdubs added in an English studio at a later date. "No One is Innocent" was released as a single in the UK on 30 June 1978 and reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart. The sleeve showed a British actor dressed as Nazi leader Martin Bormann playing bass with the group.
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I guess cordless mics were not yet a reliable technology in those days lol.
