AJ recently shared the Great Rock & Roll Swindle soundtrack, and I've been listening to the Rich Kids (while prepping a Steve New primer). A thought occurred: what was it like for the true blue Pistols fans, who followed the music press and bought each record as it came out in the aftermath of the US tour? With the help of Fodderstompf, Rockmine, and Phil Singleton's Cook And Jones website, a timeline was assembled.
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| Rich Kids: Matlock, Midge Ure, Steve New |
June 1978: "No One Is Innocent" b/w "My Way" is released.
August 1978: Ghosts Of Princes In Towers is released, and the Vicious White Kids (Sid, Glen, Steve New, and Rat Scabies) play a one night stand in London.
October 1978: Nancy Spungen is found dead, and "Public Image" b/w "The Cowboy Song" is released.
December 1978: First Issue is issued, and PiL plays London on Christmas and Boxing Day.
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| Oi! Where's the money? |
April 1979: Ultravox reforms with Midge Ure as singer. (Rich Kids had broken up sometime in 1978, before Midge and Rusty Egan started Visage. Matlock and Steve New will join Iggy Pop's band before year's end.)
June 1979: "Death Disco" b/w "No Birds Do Sing". Stay tuned for Part 2...
Post Pistols Vol. 1 (1978-79):
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Thanks, AJ!
You're welcome Jon...I think you have too much time on your hands, but thanks as always
DeleteMy wife would agree! I think it's an interesting way to listen to the music "as it happened". Some of it's great, some not so good.
DeleteNEW LINK (2024): https://tinyurl.com/PostPistolsV1
DeleteThis link has the Steve Jones vocal on "Silly Thing". I couldn't find "God Save The Queen Symphony" without McLaren's stage whispered voiceover.
Cool -- thanks Jonder!
ReplyDeleteTo quote Freddie Prinze: "Loooooking goood!"
ReplyDeleteSomebody help me: I've got "Friggin in the Riggin" stuck in my head, but with the lyrics to "It's Tricky" by Run-DMC. Imagine Steve Jones' leering voice:
DeleteI met this little girrr-lee, 'er 'air was kinda currr-lee
Went to 'er 'ouse and bust it out, I 'ad to leave real earrr-lee
As the pirate said when someone asked about the steering wheel stuck to his crotch, "It's driving me nuts!"
DeleteJonder thx For this and a ton of the other comps, the Sager material was exceptional, it put me on to his fantastic work in other projects, I cannot thank you enough. A lot of hard work.
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Thanks, Jeremy! Glad you dug it. Those comps of Gareth Sager would have been hard work if he wasn't such a funny guy. That side of him came out after the Pop Group -- in RRP, Head, Pregnant, and his solo stuff. There's also a connection between Gareth and PiL through his wife, Jeanette Lee (and through drummer Bruce Smith).
DeleteSpeaking of which, "Y In Dub" (Dennis Bovell vs The Pop Group) comes out in October!
Tales of Ordinary Madness by Head!
DeleteI cannot stop playing it, one of my most fave discoveries of the last several years.
Thanks for the referral
P.S. Gareth is hilarious!!
This was the review that gave me my first glimpse into the world of Head:
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Trite but true: I was working at the Kingfish in BRLA when they played there and it was a thing, a moment, fucked me up for a week. When I got back to Austin for school two weeks later I was in search of a band to be in. We may have been, as a Britlish punk band member on tour in Austin who we opened for once remarked, McPunks, but it was an effin' blast. As for this, The Professionals "Join the Professionals" may be my favorite of the bunch.
ReplyDeleteThat's not trite, that's fantastic! I wish I had my own McPunk band to look back on. I like the way the Pistols toured the South rather than NYC, Boston, Chicago, etc. And when PiL did their first US tour, they found great local bands to open for them in each city. The Professionals are coming up next.
DeleteThanks! Love the Rich Kids!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! Their first three singles and their first Peel Session are included in today's compilation. There's more Rich Kids on the way when I finish my Steve New compilation. Stinky pointed me toward these two Rich Kids boots:
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https://www.guitars101.com/threads/rich-kids-tiffanys-halesowen-uk-30-01-78.763265/
Love these comps. Great sounds within and sometimes less so but always worth a listen. Thanks Jonder.
ReplyDeleteThis is great work; many thanks. I hate to be that guy (as they say) but you have included the Paul Cook-sung Silly Thing from the Swindle LP, rather than the Steve Jones version from the single. Also (sorry!) GSTQ Symphony should be the instrumental version, minus the McLaren voiceover.
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize the single tracks were different from the LP versions. Thanks! I think the "My Way" single is shorter than the soundtrack version as well.
DeleteI am that guy that bought EVERYTHING as it was released for at least a couple years....thanks for making sense of it all!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you found this! It was an exciting time. I have some of it -- with the Swindle soundtrack and Some Product (Carri On Sex Pistols), Virgin really was "beating a dead horse", just as advertised.
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