Glen Matlock
På dvdn som medföljer "Down To Kill" är det bilder från Lyceum i London 1984. En del är fotograferat backstage. Glen Matlock (originalbasist i Sex Pistols) flimrar snabbt förbi i vimlet. Klippet nedan är från hans bok "I was a teenage Sex Pistol". Det är några få dagar innan den beryktade "Anarchy in the UK" turnén skall dra igång.
"We turned up at Harlesden about halfway through The Heartbreakers' set. This was the band formed by Malcolm's old mates from New York, Johnny Thunders - who was in the The New York Dolls - and Richard Hell, who I've already mentioned. Hell had since departed and it was now down to a four-piece featuring Thunders, Walter Lure, Jerry Nolan - also from The Dolls - on drums and Billy Rath on bass.
They sounded really good and, like most American bands, could really play. We'd seen all these new English punk bands who sounded so weak. But The Heartbreakers were really cocksure and confident, most likely because of all the gigs they'd done between them.
I got talking to Mick Jones. There's a really weird rumour going round, he said. Walter Lure - The Heartbreakers' other singer and guitarist and a perfect foil to Johnny Thunders - has a brain tumour and only has weeks to live. So we were all pleasant to Walter.
None of it was true. He just looked a bit pale. Never seeing daylight, you would. And those glasses always made him look a bit spazzy. These days he works on Wall Street and makes a fortune - or so Thunders would have it.
Although Malcolm used to manage The Dolls we'd never met any of them.
When they'd finished playing we went over and introduced ourselves. Jerry Nolan, the drummer, sat down next to me. I really enjoyed the band, I said, I really liked that one called 'Chinese Rocks'. Oh yeah, he said, I really like that one myself - pleased he was, but cocky like he is. What's it about then, that one? I asked. He looked right at me as if I had the brain of a tablecloth and said in that big, booming American voice of his, he-ro-in, boy.
Nice, I said, lovely. But I still didn't think any more about it. I was very innocent about hard drugs in those days."
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"We turned up at Harlesden about halfway through The Heartbreakers' set. This was the band formed by Malcolm's old mates from New York, Johnny Thunders - who was in the The New York Dolls - and Richard Hell, who I've already mentioned. Hell had since departed and it was now down to a four-piece featuring Thunders, Walter Lure, Jerry Nolan - also from The Dolls - on drums and Billy Rath on bass.
They sounded really good and, like most American bands, could really play. We'd seen all these new English punk bands who sounded so weak. But The Heartbreakers were really cocksure and confident, most likely because of all the gigs they'd done between them.
I got talking to Mick Jones. There's a really weird rumour going round, he said. Walter Lure - The Heartbreakers' other singer and guitarist and a perfect foil to Johnny Thunders - has a brain tumour and only has weeks to live. So we were all pleasant to Walter.
None of it was true. He just looked a bit pale. Never seeing daylight, you would. And those glasses always made him look a bit spazzy. These days he works on Wall Street and makes a fortune - or so Thunders would have it.
Although Malcolm used to manage The Dolls we'd never met any of them.
When they'd finished playing we went over and introduced ourselves. Jerry Nolan, the drummer, sat down next to me. I really enjoyed the band, I said, I really liked that one called 'Chinese Rocks'. Oh yeah, he said, I really like that one myself - pleased he was, but cocky like he is. What's it about then, that one? I asked. He looked right at me as if I had the brain of a tablecloth and said in that big, booming American voice of his, he-ro-in, boy.
Nice, I said, lovely. But I still didn't think any more about it. I was very innocent about hard drugs in those days."
Boken finns att köpa från Matlocks hemsida:
http://www.glenmatlock.com/merchand/merchand.html
