According to this article, the Sex Pistols are set to release a DVD of last years tour.
Re-read that sentence and tell me how many things you find wrong with it. The Sex Pistols are set to release something? A DVD? Of their tour?
Re-read that sentence and tell me how many things you find wrong with it. The Sex Pistols are set to release something? A DVD? Of their tour?
To me, the Sex Pistols were a moment in history. They occupy a special place in music and culture. Had things not ended with a death, I'm sure we would have seen the band drop into irrelevance and obscurity. Sure, there was talent there, in all of the band. But the band itself was like a hot burning sun, it can't last. It wasn't supposed to last. Now, not only do we have the band on tour but massive co-opting of their name and image, promoting exactly the thing that the Pistols were supposed to be the antithesis of.
Would you dig up your dead grandmother and bring her to Thanksgiving? Of course not. But that's what a Sex Pistol's tour is. Bad taste.
I wasn't happy about the INXS reunion ( I think they should have given the band a different name. Anything else is riding coat tails.) and, in general, any reunion that involves a band with a dead key member. At least the Beatles got it right. The Beatles without John, was just George, Paul and Ringo.
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