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Sex Pistols Reunite For Guitar Hero III

Posted by Zonk on from the god-save-the-queen dept.

1up is reporting that the Sex Pistols are getting the band back together for at least one recording session. They're laying down a master track for the upcoming Guitar Hero III, for the song 'Anarchy in the U.K.'. "Original members John Lydon (Johnny Rotten), Steve Jones, and Paul Cook hit the studio together for the first time in 30 years, hooking up with original producer Chris Thomas to maintain the feel of the recording. Additionally, the original analog sound desk, built in 1969 for producer George Martin at Air Studios in London, was utilized for aural authenticity."

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  1. Sex Pistols Reunite... by WgT2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...to make some money.

    1. Re:Sex Pistols Reunite... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      As a regular poster on a really active punk ban forum, I have a good guess as to what that community will say about all this.


      One half will flame "Zomg sellouts" and the other half will think to themselves "with next weeks allowance I can play it on Mom and Dads flatscreen..."

    2. Re:Sex Pistols Reunite... by skammie · · Score: 5, Informative

      The entire band never shied away from money. Rotten has always said he does things for the money. Did you ever see the Bill Grundy episode they were on for crying out loud? For the record Glenn Matlock was the original bassist in the Sex Pistols, and it is his bass lines you here on all of 'Never Mind the Bollocks.' It's funny really. He was booted from the band weeks before the recording, and Sid could not play properly. So Glenn was hired back as a studio musician, and Glenn wound up with more money in his pocket then the rest of the band after the recording sessions were over.

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    3. Re:Sex Pistols Reunite... by Alcoholic+Synonymous · · Score: 3, Insightful

      As Rotten said on the big mid 90's reunion tour... what's more punk than only doing it for the money?

      I mean, if true, they will be the same musicians on the same (tired old) song and dance, even the same MONO equipment... probably not even with half the intensity that made the original famous. And best of all, they will be PAID to do it all over again.

      I can hear Rotten saying this on the final take: "There's your bloody pop song, now where's my fucking check?"

      Too many people seem to think that to be a real punk you must have this this thing called "integrity", which is defined as never moving out of your moms basement and dying young of a heroine overdose. Bollocks! If someone wants to pay you to do something, do it. Even if you suck, you still got paid for it. That's punk!

    4. Re:Sex Pistols Reunite... by Colourspace · · Score: 4, Funny

      If I had do die of a 'heroine' overdose - I hope it's the bionic woman. With the top half of the outfit still on. Spelling Nazi out...

    5. Re:Sex Pistols Reunite... by MojoStan · · Score: 3, Interesting

      For the record Glenn Matlock was the original bassist in the Sex Pistols, and it is his bass lines you here on all of 'Never Mind the Bollocks.' It's funny really. He was booted from the band weeks before the recording, and Sid could not play properly. So Glenn was hired back as a studio musician, and Glenn wound up with more money in his pocket then the rest of the band after the recording sessions were over. The record is a little hazy. No one seems to dispute that Glenn wrote almost all the bass lines on Bollocks. Heck, the song writing process was usually: Glenn wrote the music, Johnny Rotten wrote the lyrics.

      However, I think the most accepted version of events has guitarist Steve Jones playing Glenn's bass lines on Bollocks except for one song played by Glenn ("Anarchy in the UK") and one song by Sid ("Bodies"). Glenn did get proper song writing credits, so he got paid.

      I believe the story about Glenn being hired back as a studio musician came from John Lydon's 1995 autobiography, but others have denied this happened. The memories of creative musicians always seem hazy, even without alcohol.

      Anyhoo, Glenn's my hero. During the Grundy interview, he seemed more like a geek than a punk.

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  2. Re:Reunite the Beatles! by adycarter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Even the "amazing powers of the cell processor" can't quite master Necromancy.

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  3. Re:What a bunch of sickos... by meringuoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, it's a terrible insult to the Pistols' long tradition of good taste and common decency.

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  4. They've reunited before - just not in studio by zgeist · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is a bunch of marketing hype. The Pistols have reunited and performed together several times in the last 10 or 11 years. In fact, they are about to have another reunion tour this fall. In '96 it was the Filthy Lucre tour or some such thing and sometime in 2002 or 2003 they had some other tour - the Piss Off tour, I think it was called. In addition, it's just re-recording a track they already originally recorded. It's not like they are about to release an actual new song. Nothing to see here, move along