Sex Pistols...Walking in a wonder Winterland

[Marky Dread]

So after all these years the truth about the Sex Pistols split has finally been revealed. Was it Malcolm's manipulations? ...nope. was it Sid's wild antics and drug use? ...nope. Was it Cook and Jones's womanising behaviour? ...nope. Was John's ego getting out of control? ...nope.

It was that the band were afraid of Olaf and his raccoon army. Here is the proof.

[Heston]

This is fantastic, cheers Marky.

Johnny sounds amazing in the soundcheck.

[Dr. Medulla]

So after all these years the truth about the Sex Pistols split has finally been revealed. Was it Malcolm's manipulations? ...nope. was it Sid's wild antics and drug use? ...nope. Was it Cook and Jones's womanising behaviour? ...nope. Was John's ego getting out of control? ...nope.

It was that the band were afraid of Olaf and his raccoon army. Here is the proof.

[JohnS]

This is fantastic, cheers Marky.

Johnny sounds amazing in the soundcheck.

That soundcheck is brilliant - I remember when it first surfaced, on blogs and then youtube, but this is the first time I've listened to it properly, in its entirety (and in such superb quality) since then. A real fly on the wall glimpse into the band's mindset by this stage of the tour (and their career)
Johnny seems surprisingly professional and conscientious about getting the sound right, at least before he loses patience and resorts to his petulant persona; even in soundcheck mode his voice and vocalising is totally unique - all those weird 'whistles' and stuff and the way he (very co-operatively) does the 'hello..o..o..o.' - No-one else sounds like him.
And other surprises are how adept Sid's bass playing is at times, when he's doing his random riffs and phrases from other tunes - far better than he shows in any live performances I've heard - plus Steve Jones's equally surprising guitar licks when he's also messing about - some trad bluesy riffs here and there.

[Marky Dread]

This is fantastic, cheers Marky.

Johnny sounds amazing in the soundcheck.

Cheers mate. He does sound good but boy all those "ello's" would've driven me mad. Poor Boogie (John Tiberi) doing the sound.

[Marky Dread]

So after all these years the truth about the Sex Pistols split has finally been revealed. Was it Malcolm's manipulations? ...nope. was it Sid's wild antics and drug use? ...nope. Was it Cook and Jones's womanising behaviour? ...nope. Was John's ego getting out of control? ...nope.

It was that the band were afraid of Olaf and his raccoon army. Here is the proof.

[Marky Dread]

This is fantastic, cheers Marky.

Johnny sounds amazing in the soundcheck.

That soundcheck is brilliant - I remember when it first surfaced, on blogs and then youtube, but this is the first time I've listened to it properly, in its entirety (and in such superb quality) since then. A real fly on the wall glimpse into the band's mindset by this stage of the tour (and their career)
Johnny seems surprisingly professional and conscientious about getting the sound right, at least before he loses patience and resorts to his petulant persona; even in soundcheck mode his voice and vocalising is totally unique - all those weird 'whistles' and stuff and the way he (very co-operatively) does the 'hello..o..o..o.' - No-one else sounds like him.
And other surprises are how adept Sid's bass playing is at times, when he's doing his random riffs and phrases from other tunes - far better than he shows in any live performances I've heard - plus Steve Jones's equally surprising guitar licks when he's also messing about - some trad bluesy riffs here and there.

I think what John had was incredible diction. This helped keep songs together even when the playing was going out of tune.

Those whistle sounds is John sucking his lips backwards. Dave Goodman used to call them Dolphin sounds.

[Kory]

This is fantastic, cheers Marky.

Johnny sounds amazing in the soundcheck.

That soundcheck is brilliant - I remember when it first surfaced, on blogs and then youtube, but this is the first time I've listened to it properly, in its entirety (and in such superb quality) since then. A real fly on the wall glimpse into the band's mindset by this stage of the tour (and their career)
Johnny seems surprisingly professional and conscientious about getting the sound right, at least before he loses patience and resorts to his petulant persona; even in soundcheck mode his voice and vocalising is totally unique - all those weird 'whistles' and stuff and the way he (very co-operatively) does the 'hello..o..o..o.' - No-one else sounds like him.
And other surprises are how adept Sid's bass playing is at times, when he's doing his random riffs and phrases from other tunes - far better than he shows in any live performances I've heard - plus Steve Jones's equally surprising guitar licks when he's also messing about - some trad bluesy riffs here and there.

I wasn't super interested in this show, but this review just sold me.

Thanks Marky! Looking forward to it!

[Marky Dread]

This is fantastic, cheers Marky.

Johnny sounds amazing in the soundcheck.

That soundcheck is brilliant - I remember when it first surfaced, on blogs and then youtube, but this is the first time I've listened to it properly, in its entirety (and in such superb quality) since then. A real fly on the wall glimpse into the band's mindset by this stage of the tour (and their career)
Johnny seems surprisingly professional and conscientious about getting the sound right, at least before he loses patience and resorts to his petulant persona; even in soundcheck mode his voice and vocalising is totally unique - all those weird 'whistles' and stuff and the way he (very co-operatively) does the 'hello..o..o..o.' - No-one else sounds like him.
And other surprises are how adept Sid's bass playing is at times, when he's doing his random riffs and phrases from other tunes - far better than he shows in any live performances I've heard - plus Steve Jones's equally surprising guitar licks when he's also messing about - some trad bluesy riffs here and there.

I wasn't super interested in this show, but this review just sold me.

Thanks Marky! Looking forward to it!

Cheers mate.