Evil Dead
Enemy of the Gospel
Sex Pistol.........I'm not trying to get on anybody's nerves with my semi-Sid-Bashing...........you must look at it from my point of view.
The Sex Pistols are my favorite band....of any genre...of all time. They are one of the most influential bands in history. Their music was great......they refused to conform. They fought the system.......and made great music while doing so.
John Lydon/Johnny Rotten was a great vocalist for their style of music. He could sing and shout his lungs out. He was a great front man. He performed like none other. He set the mood for all live events......and his voice set the mood for every single song.
Steve Jones is an accomplished guitar player. He didn't get a lot of recognition during his Pistols days but has since. He has worked with virutally everybody. This man can play guitar.
Paul Cook is a great drum player. With so many Pistols' songs designed with a heavy drum beat.......he had to be great to make the music work.
Glenn Matlock is a great bass player. He is/was the most talented of the lot. He was the best musician in the group......and still is.
When people talk about the Pistols........all of the above is ignored. They want to talk about Sid Vicous. The man who contributed nothing at all to the group. He really was just a walking poster to advertise the group. He stood on stage holding a bass.......did not play it. He cut himself on stage........he picked fights with members of the audience. He was a "bad boy"........why do people continue to discuss him over the real musicians of the group (Jones, Cook, Matlock)?
No, Sid Vicious was not a human being with family and friends. John Simon Beverly was a human being with family and friends. Sid Vicious was merely a walking poster to promote a band. Sid Vicious made the concious decision to kill John Beverly.
John Lydon has commented on this many times before. Sid didn't fall into a drug habbit. He looked for it. John Beverly was a nice quiet young fellow who liked hanging out with his friends. Sid Vicious on the other hand was just a guy out looking for trouble......he fancied himself as a "toughie" and was constantly looking for altercation. That was what his entire life was based around. Not family......not friends......just shooting heroin and looking for fights.
Malcolm McLaren did nothing to hurt Sid. As a matter of fact.....he made John Beverly famous. Sid did everthing to hurt himself.
John Beverly was a no-name drummer for Siouxie Sioux when Glenn Matlock left the Pistols. It just so happened that his best friend was John Lydon. Johnny Rotten wanted Sid to join the group because he was tired of the way Steve and Paul were always together and had nothing in common with him, it made him feel like an outsider. Sid Vicious had never played Bass before in his life......but Malcolm McLaren let him join the group anyway.
Malcolm not only made a person who had no musical talent a famous musician with the Sex Pistols............after the group had broken up, Malcolm still remained loyal to Sid and helped him carry on a solo career.............
You can blame Malcolm McLaren's greed for killing the Sex Pistols if you wish........because it is mostly true. He killed the Pistol's career with his greed and dictator type attitude towards the group. He on the other hand did nothing but help Sid Vicious. He took a nobody and made him a super star that is still being talked about here almost 25 years after his death. Malcolm tried to help Sid from destroying himself........he warned him against drugs, he warned him against Nancy Spungeon.......those two thing combined is what killed John Beverly and later killed Sid Vicious. Sid didn't want to listen to anybody or anything. He knew it all. Nobody carries any blame but him. Not Malcolm McLaren, not John Lydon.............Sid killed Sid.