Remembering the *** Pistols?how they influenced the punk era

[drknyt]

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*** pistols was a created band ..of malcolm mlaren to showcase the fashion of his friend vivienne westwood, it was an outlet for fashion(corporate capitalist driven) and the music came second..

The *** Pistols evolved from The Strand, a band formed in 1972 with Jones on vocals, Cook on drums and Wally Nightingale on guitar. Early line-ups also included Jim Mackin (now a GP practising in Lincolnshire) on organ, as well as Stephen Hayes, and later Del Noones, on bass.[9] By 1973 the band members were spending time at Don Letts' "Acme Attractions", and the more upmarket Let It Rock,[6] a 1950s-themed clothes shop in the Kings Road, Chelsea area of London. "Let It Rock" was owned by former New York Dolls manager Malcolm McLaren and his partner Vivienne Westwood; the shop specialised in "anti-fashion",[4] selling the drapes, slashed T-shirts, brothel creepers and fetish gear[6] later popularised by the punk movement. As Rotten observed: "Malcolm and Vivienne were really a pair of shysters: they would sell anything to any trend that they could grab onto."[6] The shop was to become a focal point of the punk rock scene, and brought together many of its primary members, including Jordan and Soo Catwoman, as well as Captain Sensible, John Ritchie (later Sid Vicious), Jah Wobble, Gene October, Mick Jones, Tony James, and Marco Pirroni.[6] All were reacting to a distaste to the prevailing fashion of long hair and flared jeans of the early 1970s. McLaren took over management of the band around this time.

so you see all you punk purist should know that behind all that anarchy stuff and all that there was a
maketing scheme in all of this bollocks, its not at all just plain angst music but the need to earn was there for these guys and sad to say they were taken for a ride and used by malcolm and vivienne for their capitalist ends/.
By then renamed "The Swankers",[10] the band began rehearsing at the Crunchy Frog, a studio near the London Docklands. In 1974, they played their first gig at Tom Salter's Café in London. Noones was ejected from the band shortly afterwards, due to his unreliability and unwillingness to rehearse.

[Tha Truth]

wow! *** pistol's anticorporate movement was a hoax?!
payter lagi na imo article bai, asa ka nakakita ana? pwede i-link kay ako basabasahon..hehe

[EZRA]

You'll never find a pistols song on my ipod .. ari ra kos Ramones ug Clash .... THE CLASH was the best Punk band for me.

[drknyt]

police and thieves still rings in my head.., the clash.sensible songs..kinsa to local band diri sa Cebu b4 ni sepra ug career opportunties? limot na man ko oi, sa sobra concert ug beer na inom sa batan on pa ta limtanon gawas..paita..

[drknyt]

kana si EZRA otherwise known by his mild mannered monicker Len2x mao nay isa sa mga underground music archive master, nagdako na cya ug hipos obscure info on bands..wa pay internet sa una isa na sa mga tawo pierti mo data research from buying rare records and zines,

[artistdais1998]

@ drknyt

you said that to me a few years back and your saying it again...hehehheh

thanks for saving my skin when i was a stuttering 4th grader....wahahahhahah

[balut_man]

@drknyt: i don't think ***/seditionaries was a corporate fashion boutique/chain. yes, it peddles fashion but the stuff they sell still lean towards counterculture. it was a reaction hurled towards the Penshoppes, Benchs and Humans at that time. and yes, malcom mclaren was a quite an opportunist but he helped propel the careers of the new york dolls, television's tom verlaine, richard hell, etc.

and and come on, if it wasn't for 'pistols, who laid the groundwork for anarcho-punk, where would all this great punk rock bands be?

[artistdais1998]

its more like the brits fashioned punk but the americans gave us the damn attitude even before it poke its ugly head towards the mainstream with bands like the Stooges..Sonic Youth, Swans and the likes were NY no-wave bands back then taking the DIY spirit of punk and making something out of purely nothing...

[balut_man]

Spin: You've called contemporary punks "coat hangers."

A: I think it's about the clothes. And once you get into that -- the uniform -- you've missed the point. It ain't nothing to do at all with what you wear. What punk has become is such "a fascist regime." "Ooh, punks don't wear this, punks don't listen to that." Bollocks!
- Lolo Johnny Rotten (on a recent interview conducted by Spin), check it out:
http://www.spin.com/features/magazin..._johnnyrotten/

[EZRA]

Carlo - sa una ra to katung wala pa tay laing buhat kundi magtambay sa ilang Marte while iyang Lola (god bless her soul) nagtambay sa lantay sa gawas. Karon tawn kalimot na kos uban natong gipaminaw sa una. Ug naay mahinumdoman, di nasab ma kit-an kay hagbay ra ang last pressing sa album/track/single. Ug naay available, pwerte sang mahala.
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About *** Pistols - daghan maka sulti nga silay nag lay down sa groundwork for anarcho-punk kay sila may pinaka popular (bisag karon, you ask these kids kung who founded PUNK ROCK .. mo ingon dayon na sila "*** PISTOLS"). Pero buot huna-hunaon... image and attitude are the only thing that they have. They don't have any talent at all - their music sucked!!