Never Mind The Bullocks…
This past sunday, 10-28, was the 20th anniversary of the British release of Nevermind The Bullocks by the Sex Pistols. Next Saturday (the 10th) was the U.S. release date. The signifigance of the band and album is well known, even if you first heard the song from an 80′s metal band trying to establish non-sell out credibility.
I’ve got the original and the demo for your listening pleasure as well as the handwritten note Johnny Rotten wrote to the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame to let them know the Sex Pistols wouldn’t bloody well participate.
One of my friends at work saw them play in Oklahoma City on their only tour of the U.S. It’s a grand story, maybe I’ll get him to tell it for this blog. The long and short is that he was in a band in college, 6 guys, one of them ordered the single or the album (either one was an import, the album didn’t come out here until November 10), half the band liked it, the other half was otherwise, the ‘like them’ half drove to the gig, loved it, got home, and fired the 3 who didn’t get that whole punk thing before rearranging all their songs.