1978 NBC news segment on the horrors of The Sex Pistols coming to America
At 07:49:33:25 there is a shot of future REM guitarist Peter Buck waiting outside the Atlanta venue where they did their first US show.
He told me a couple of years later, that he didn't have a ticket and tried to rush the door when the SP began their set.
He said "they threw me out on my ass".
I guffawed and he smiled.
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I was living in Athens GA when the Sex Piatols came to ATL in '78
I had no car - and my roommates **hated** the Sex Pistols so much they wouldn't even drive me to the bus station
Pre-REM Peter Buck worked at WUXTRY - a downtown Athens record store. We talked about music when I bought and album he liked.
Looking at the video again, I think the lady in front of him was his longtime girlfriend Ann (she had a pageboy hairdo when I knew her later in the 80's).
never saw them live but I did buy the album. My parents were out one Saturday afternoon so I decided to blast it on the living room stereo. We had this little chihuahua mix dog at the time, whom I didn't like and it didn't like me. About the time 'Bodies' was ending that dog comes barreling into the living room and promptly pukes right in front of the speakers. I remember thinking, "Very punk!" and we became buddies afterward.
