The Sex Pistols changed rock music, for the better I think. They opened the door for a lot of bands that would not otherwise have gotten a shot. And Never Mind the Bollocks is one of the great albums.
Sid was a central part of the punk scene in London and helped make the band what it was. I doubt he would have claimed to be a good musician, but that was beside the point.
Sid was a central part of the punk scene in London and helped make the band what it was. I doubt he would have claimed to be a good musician, but that was beside the point.
Nope, Lydon's a bonafide a-hole, I saw one where the interviewer was going out of his way to be polite and respectful, and Lydon just had to do his cheesy anarchist bad-boy schtick, which just made him look pathetic. He is by no means alone in a-holedom in the annals of rock and roll, but when it becomes a required component of your "persona", time to hang it up. They didn't call it the "Filthy Lucre" tour for nothing. As long as we are raking rock stars over the coals, I'll admit I never thought much of the Dead either, seems like all those years of jamming should have produced better musicians, but the few times I saw them, they were sloppy as hell, and the whole Dead "scene" swirling around the stadium was far more interesting than the band. Industrial quantities of drug intake doesn't improve anything really, as Sid found out all too quickly.
