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Tue Oct-25-05 02:34 PM
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PiL on American Bandstand, 1980 |
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Tue Oct-25-05 02:37 PM
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1. Almost as bad as the Beastie Boys on ABS - |
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. . . throwing the mikes around while their vocals were still going on the track.
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Tue Oct-25-05 02:39 PM
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AB was a travesty anyway.
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Tue Oct-25-05 02:42 PM
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3. I mean, they let JOHN FREAKING TRAVOLTA on there!!! |
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Barbarino in the Plastic Bubble sync'd "Let Her In"! BADly at that.
How seriously can anyone take that show?
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Tue Oct-25-05 02:44 PM
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4. Lydon obviously didn't take it very seriously at all. |
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Tue Oct-25-05 03:04 PM
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I only saw PiL once, and it was in support of "Album", in Toronto.
This Toronto fixture Handsome Ned was the opening "band"; he was a long-time streetperson/busker, and looking back, he probably had some sort of mental illness, but he was great on stage! Apparently he got the gig because John had seen him busking earlier that afternoon.
It was going to be a great show, but it ended after about three numbers because people wouldn't stop "gobbing" at the band even after John said "I'm going to walk off this fucking stage if you don't stop spitting at us!". And walk off he did.
Somewhere on VHS, I have a clip of PiL performing "Bad Baby" (aka "Don't You Listen") at some festival, but John gets bored halfway through and lets this black woman come up from the crowd and finish the number for him. He ends up dancing this weird quasi-robotic-breakdance style with her, and she has all the lyrics wrong... it's great theatre!
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Tue Oct-25-05 03:46 PM
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15. I saw them in Boston, must have been in 82. |
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I was living in a flophouse for musician types in Cambridge and Lydon came over to visit at some point. He drank a couple of beers and fell asleep on the couch. Milquetoast.
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Tue Oct-25-05 03:50 PM
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17. I saw them at the Grenada Theater |
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the same era--81, 82, something like that.
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Tue Oct-25-05 03:04 PM
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The mere thought sends me into the convulsions.
I saw them at the Granada Theater in 1980 or '81. That burnishes my punk creds, doesn't it?
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Tue Oct-25-05 03:06 PM
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7. I'm so going to DL that when I get home... |
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Tue Oct-25-05 03:07 PM
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8. I Just Saw That Video, This Weekend |
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Watching VH1Classic over the weekend, they did a very good couple hours of fairly unique acts. Lots of live clips mixed in and this was one of them. PiL on Bandstand. What a hoot! The Professor
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Tue Oct-25-05 03:08 PM
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Tue Oct-25-05 03:29 PM
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Getting over an MS episode, actually. Feeling pretty good the last couple of days, though. My wife is finally getting better, too, but her blood chemistry is not completely back to normal. This has not been a good health year for our household.
On the plus side, our landscaping was done, we got a new kitten, and i bought 2 new guitars!
Still traveling for work and did teach a class over this term. (Finally!)
Thanks for asking. How's the family? The Professor
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Tue Oct-25-05 03:37 PM
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Tue Oct-25-05 03:41 PM
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12. Too young for "Tour", but caught almost every local show since |
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PiL put on a great show, every time. I got permanent hearing damage sitting 7 rows back from the stage stacks at a "9" tour show.
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Tue Oct-25-05 03:43 PM
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13. One of my favorite concerts |
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was Sugar Cubes, PiL And Depche Mode...
Depche mode pretty much sucked but I was blown away by the other two..
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Tue Oct-25-05 03:44 PM
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14. One of the greatest Bandstand moments EVER!!! |
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Edited on Tue Oct-25-05 03:56 PM by no name no slogan
THIS is the reason why I still idolize John Lydon, even though he's a prat.
"Careering"-- classic dance track, right?!?!? :rofl:
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Tue Oct-25-05 03:49 PM
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16. Most of the "punk" ideas were from Lydon and Jeanette Lee |
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Malcolm had almost no control after the Pistols really got rolling. Lydon would be wearing some ripped up sweatshirt pinned back together, and a week later, Vivienne Westwood would have something similar in her shop for $100 or somesuch.
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Tue Oct-25-05 08:49 PM
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18. XNSA.... I am actually in the crowd on that tape. I crashed the show. |
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Was a nut back in the day.
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Tue Oct-25-05 08:54 PM
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Tue Oct-25-05 09:00 PM
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20. I heard they were taping at ABC and just drove onto the lot and crashed |
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the taping. No one bothered me. I was into punk. I see myself on that tape. Thanks for the heads up. Hard to believe it was almost twenty five years ago.
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