Acoustic 370! I think in the US he used a Ampeg SVT that they rented for the shows. Anyway you can still hear him OK during shows.
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Sid Vicious could play the bass
- Thread starter Panek
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Acoustic 370! I think in the US he used a Ampeg SVT that they rented for the shows. Anyway you can still hear him OK during shows.
I read somewhere that Sid was also one of the early drummers for Siouxsie and the Banshees.
He drummed in Siouxsie's first band, "The Flowers of Romance." I think they did maybe one gig? Lydon later used that name for a PiL album (and a good one!).
Nah most of their gear was stolen. I think they robbed Bowie's tour bus.
Oh, man. I just read this thread in it's entirety. I used to love the Furs. Saw them in a small club North of Philadelphia, around 1990, kinda past their prime, but it was really cool, because there were only like 100 people there, so I got to see them all up close and personal, like. Good times!
Pistols guitarist Steve Jones actually stole mics off Bowie's stage by pretending to be with the road crew. He said the mics had been zip-locked to the stands, but it was just a quick snip and he was out of there.
Some of the other Pistols gear wads stolen from another big band's rehearsal studio while they were doing a gig on the other side of London.
They didn't call Steve "The Cat Burglar" for nothin'.
Yeah, I heard Malcom favored him for having that skill set, in particular. Lol.
Yeah I'm pretty sure Steve's Les Paul and Marshall were stolen gear.
Malcolm charmingly attributed much of his aesthetic to the tricksterish Granny who raised him. He said she used to chide the boys when they were being good that their behavior was too dull, and that they should get up to something naughty. Shel Silverstein school of child-rearing!
By the description above, these people were garden variety A**holes. I will never get the interest in these losers.
UK punk journalist Nick Kent helped kick off the punk wars hy mocking David Gilmour's greasy hair in a widely circulated and notorious review. All of which is to say you are doing the noble and just thing by defending your side. Carry on!
I't never happened then....
And I wasn't working behind the bar at the White Heart pub Willesden in August '76 when a band called The Vibrators played to a crowd of about 8....including me, Micky Most...
, Malcolm
and Dave Vanium of the Damned..
New Rose had been released only a week or so? before and being the barman for the bunch of 'em, I basically heard Micky and Malcom put a plan together to "Change The Business Forever"...with support from the Vibs and Dave....
Not too long after, Micky signed The Vibrators and Released a god awful first single..."We Vibrate" on RAK records.....
The Damned released "The Damned"....and all of a sudden.....
Pistols had barely been thought of at this point if I recall correctly....(Much booze and many drugs were inhaled at this time....(So much for Punk dismissal of Hippy drug culture
).....So...take it or leave it...
Oh! and Sid, bless 'im couldn't play bass for
....What can I say?....
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He seemed to be very much in the shadow of Micky Most on that occasion.....A few ideas for promoting but mostly played yes man to Micky....@Fat Freddy Amazing!
Particularly the part about overhearing Malcolm strategize.
Anyway.....
