It's easy just to be a fan of a band. Most of us were this way before the Pistols were even formed, so one door closes and another opens. What were your impressions of Glen leaving the band and Sid joining? One night at Club Louise, Sid told me he was rehearsing with the Pistols, but it was "all hush hush man. Would you agree with this assessment, or is it an over simplification? Well the band themselves had no wish to be a tabloid, they wanted to be a band, but Malcolm wasn't interested in being just a manager, he had his own agenda.
What the band wanted simply did not figure in these plans. They had become reluctant puppets, seemingly unable to take control for themselves. This came down to their 4 personalities which Malcolm did his best to keep divided. What was the atmosphere like on the King's Road during ?
Were the stories about constant Police harassment accurate? D unno, never went to the King's Road on a Saturday any more, too many tossers with dog collars and safety pins on.
Were the well documented tensions within the Pistols obvious to those close to the group? W ell they simply stopped being seen together or at all. From the outside it seemed to have become a nightmare being a Sex Pistol. They had just had enough. In most bands, meetings are called and differences are aired, but not in the Pistols. They carried on till it fell apart. What was your feeling about the Sid Vicious saga as it unfolded?
P oor old Sid didn't know who the fuck he was. He latched onto his cartoon punk public persona, coz he was lost after the Pistols split and the drugs did not help.
Nancy was just awful. I always felt she was mentally retarded in some way not just stupid , and the two of them just became an embarrassing joke. I always thought the question wasn't why did he kill her, but why didn't he kill her earlier, she really was more than mortal flesh could stand.
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Do you like working with people like that though? With the Wolfmen, you obviously know Chris from before? Did you enjoy getting involved in those? Although you did a handful of gigs… and you hated them? So uncomfortable and boring…. Have you whittled them down?
I think I had about and I just got rid of them. Forty now. This just happens to be my one… my blokey interest. It would be on ebay now. Comic books… guitars… any other collections you want to tell me about? I used to have tons and tons of clothes… I whittled them down as well. There was nowhere to put them.
Would you be hell to live with, do you think? Erm, she says I never listen to anybody. If you had a flat mate, at the end of the week would they be going up the wall? Not like a junkie or anything… or coming home drunk and violent…. I make a good drunk, you know. Is there anything on it? Are you doing anything with it?
What sort of stuff have you got? I could use it as a spare I suppose? You just use it because it has a sound on it, and then you can put it away? If I played live I would only use about three effects. I was watching Rig Rundown or something about people using all these effects and then there was this guitarist called John who plays with Marilyn Manson, and I was gladdened to see that that he uses less effects than me.
I generally know what they need to do to finish it. Start to finish. Then it was up to Chis and Sinead to put the vocals around it. I got carried away with the spirit of the thing…. People seemed to really like it. We would do a rehearsed show. Do you think we would stand on stage and just play instrumental?
Unless we were the Shadows or something…. Do you think there could be a possibility, in your mind, of an Ants reformation? Even as a one off? Is there any mileage in it? Does anyone want to see it? It was an after show party. Or was it? They were mental, in a good way. Are they still around? It was the first time that I had been to a funeral where everyone was cheering and clapping, like the end of a gig…. If you had to think of four words to describe yourself, what would they be? Or is it? This is a good theme.
Can I get a drink? Marco leads the way to the bar and asks for a Scotch and Soda. After a while we return to the interview…. But it really pisses me off. No mention at all of the other musicians. I got contacts! I mean do I want to go back to that? I think you should go back and revisit it. Flip over their hit singles and you almost invariably found songs about sexual fetishism, sadomasochism, the erotic thrill of being tattooed.
Furthermore, at the start of , no one in their right mind would have picked Adam Ant as a major pop star in waiting. McLaren had at least left him with a couple of ideas. I wanted to use my voice like an instrument, like a battering ram. Ant took both ideas to Pirroni, a former punk face — he had played with Siouxsie and the Banshees at the famous Club punk festival in — who had recently quit as guitarist of 4AD-signed band Rema-Rema.
Scritti Politti, gigs at the Acklam Hall, I hated it all. There was this South African musical called Ipi Tombi on in the West End at the time and, at one point, Adam had this idea that we should get the drummers from that.
Instead, the new lineup featured two drummers, an idea Ant says he stole from James Brown. Putting the Apache war stripe across my nose was a declaration of arms against the music industry, which I felt had ignored me and treated me very unfairly. I wanted to look like a buccaneer: when they raided somewhere, they would take all the stuff they could carry or wear and not take anything else.
They were the most ridiculed regiment in the British army because they were thought to be too well dressed.
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