Reply With Quoteseverin was a good bassist...odd that sid didn't learn anything.
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Just saw a pic of them before their gig at the 100 Club in Sept 76. I didn’t realize this was the line up.
Sid Vicious - Drums
Steve Severin - Bass
Marco Pirroni - Guitar
….and Siouxsie Sioux
severin was a good bassist...odd that sid didn't learn anything.
This thread called for some music
https://youtu.be/TjvvK-Rj0WI
Sidney was thicker than two short planks.Originally Posted by ToTaL ITK
Here is that line up's version of The Lord's prayer from 1976:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9dvcZYKSe4
Proper rock star though.
I beg to differ.
In June 1976, Vicious went to a Sex Pistols concert at the 100 Club. Nick Kent, who had played guitar with the Sex Pistols early on and had left music to become an NME music critic and champion of punk rock (and who was Hynde's boyfriend), was also there, and was apparently blocking Vicious' view. Vicious, high on speed, lashed Kent's head with a rusted motorcycle chain which, according to Hynde, he carried with him.The incident was reported in the papers but no charges were laid
On 20 September 1976, Vicious appeared with Siouxsie and the Banshees, playing drums at their first gig at the 100 Club Punk Special in London's Oxford Street,[19] a two-day festival co-founded by McLaren. The following day, Vicious went to The Damned's performance. Drunk and high on amphetamines, he hurled his glass at the stage, attempting to strike Vanian. He missed, the glass shattered against a pillar and blinded a woman in one eye. Vicious was arrested and imprisoned at Ashford Remand Centre
In March 1977, the Sex Pistols were signed to A&M Records. In celebration, they trashed the company's offices, and then held a private party at the Speakeasy, a club and restaurant frequented by established members of the London music scene. The Sex Pistols members confronted the BBC DJ Bob Harris, who was the presenter of the Old Grey Whistle Test, a television show which featured non-chart music. Blocking Harris behind the bar, broken bottles in hand, they demanded to know when they would be on the show. A bar fight ensued. Sid Vicious jammed a broken bottle into the face of BBC recording engineer George Nicholson. Harris was rescued by the Procol Harum road crew, who grouped around him and escorted him out of the club, where they found that police had had to cordon off the entire block. None of the Sex Pistols were arrested but, the next day, A&M dropped them and Capital Radio banned all Sex Pistols music from its stations.
Vicious may have facilitated Spungen's occasional prostitution (and watched). According to Rotten's wife Nora Forster, Vicious often hit Nancy and, in her last conversation with her mother, Spungen admitted that beatings which she had previously said were at the hands of strangers actually came from Vicious.
On the night of 11 October 1978, Sid and Nancy hosted a party in their hotel room, during which Vicious took approximately 30 Tuinol tablets and, while numerous people came and went, was comatose for the rest of the night. At about 11:00 the next morning, hotel staff found Spungen dead on the bathroom floor, with a knife wound to her abdomen. Vicious was found wandering the hallway. He first claimed to have killed her, then said he remembered nothing. Two people who had been at the party stated that Nancy was alive at 5:00 a.m. The murder weapon was identified as a Jaguar K-11 hunting knife, which Nancy had purchased for Sid a few days earlier. Vicious was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. He told police that he and Nancy had argue d that night but gave conflicting versions of what happened next, saying, "I stabbed her, but I never meant to kill her" then saying that he did not remember anything, then that Spungen had fallen onto the knife. Later, the arresting officer, Sgt Thomas Kilroy of the Third Homicide Unit, was quoted as having said: "After an investigation, Vicious admitted killing Miss Spungen during a dispute
Vicious had started seeing women again and was casually involved with rocker Judy Nylon, Dee Dee Ramone's ex-girlfriend Connie Gripp, an aspiring actress named Michele Robison and Rotten's ex-girlfriend, Danielle Boothe. On 5 December, Vicious went to the Hurrah night club with Boothe, the photographers David Still and Peter Kodick Gravelle, and the comedian Michael Morra (aka Rockets Redglare) who was Sid's self-appointed bodyguard. Playing that night was Skafish; their drum roadie was a woman named Tarrah, who was the girlfriend of Todd Smith (Patti Smith's brother). Vicious began flirting with Tarrah. She rebuffed him and he pinched her. Smith told him to back off and Vicious smashed a beer bottle and jammed it into Smith's face. Smith required five stitches. Morra told police that Smith provoked Sid, that the bottle broke in Sid's hand and, producing the glass shards, said that Smith's wound was the accidental result of flying glass. On 7 December, Vicious was arrested and charged with assault
Plus being a huge 'pop' star young Sidney regularly wore a T-Shirt with a huge Nazi swastika on it. Ugggg
All the above reasons add to the fact that he was one of the biggest w@ankers ever to be involved in the music industry!
I was referring to onstage persona, can't disagree with the fact he was an absolute lunatic
Many emulated his style and attitude, some probably still do.
Absolute head case and completely strung out, but he made bass playing look good and seem far less boring.
The entertainment business is full of weirdos and misfits.I was referring to onstage persona, can't disagree with the fact he was an absolute lunatic
Many emulated his style and attitude, some probably still do.
Absolute head case and completely strung out, but he made bass playing look good and seem far less boring.
He may have made bass miming look cool but playing? Absolute knob of the highest order.I was referring to onstage persona, can't disagree with the fact he was an absolute lunatic
Many emulated his style and attitude, some probably still do.
Absolute head case and completely strung out, but he made bass playing look good and seem far less boring.
did he play left back?-(trying to save thread)
Spellbound is a belting song
if only we could get him on the right wing
Thanks for posting that… I love the fact that it was so early and they wanted to form a band… they grew into it and it ultimately became a stand out track on Join Hands
In a strange coincidence I’m in the middle of Lonely Boy by Steve Jones and thos afternoon I read the chapter on Bill Grundy and this exact subject of the punk festival at the 100 club is described..
Enjoying the book too… Thanks NYC
The quality is pretty rough but I knew it would be of interest to any aging punks on here, or fans of Siouxie & The Banshees
The Sex Pistols could play and Steve Jones is an incredible guitarist ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1rqS6y6Ryg
Indeed. Steve, Paul and Glen could play. Sid couldn’t. They unplugged him most nights and he didn’t even notice.
Since we are all reminiscing, this is probably the greatest concert ever ... The Ramones - Live At The Rainbow NYE 1977. The mid-late 70's to early 80's really turned music upside down.
I beg to differ mate. I am a huge fan of the Ramones and was lucky enough to meet da brudders backstage at their Cardiff University gig in January 81. A lovely bunch of guys! I had a great chat with Joey Ramone about our shared love of 60s girl groups. However, Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'One More From The Road', Thin Lizzy's 'Live & Dangerous and Free 'Live', piss all over that album from great height.
Just as well we all like different music and have contrasting tastes though, as liking the same dozen bands would be boring, eh?
The Ramones aren't even in my top 10, but that Rainbow concert was something else, the energy and aesthetics were off the charts, and don't forget music had become quite stale by this point. That's why '76 onwards was so exciting, no 10 minute guitar solos or tired blues/prog rock, etc.
Jones has said on many occasions a big thanks to Glen matlock for playing all the guitar parts on the album...after a year or two he learnt them himself...how the feck does that make him an amazing guitarist?... he's openly admitted time and time again that he couldn't play ...sid couldn't either...listening back im impressed with cook and lydon.
He was winding you up, of course he can play those parts cos he's the one who came up with them.
Glen had a couple of riff ideas in the early days, but he wasn't a guitarist and they the sounded shit (Steve's words), and it was Jones who turned them into the Sex Pistol tunes that we know and love. Jones also played all the guitar and most of the bass parts on NMTB. I reiterate Steve Jones is a fantastic guitarist who left his indelible mark on the punk rock genre
It was image over talent for the front men. there's a docu where steve thanks glen for playing the guitar parts on the album.
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