Hi.

Just exchanged some comments with a fellow valued poster.

 

I suggested, in that thread, that Johnny Rotten is good to play on my stereo.

 

I reckon "That What is Not" rates highly in my favs.

 

"Anger is an Energy" is surely one of the best lines/calls in music.

 

Maybe Johnny Rotten and John Lydon are not understood to be one.

 

He begged to differ.

 

Any thoughts?

I saw PIL at the legendary Ritz show in NYC where the audience rioted when they wouldn't come out from behind a big video screen. Loved his first book, which he signed for me at bookstore meet and greet.

 

Live In Paris was the best record. I owned Metal Box in it's original metal box. I contacted Jah Wobble about using his terrible Laos music in a film. Jah Wobble told me to eff off.

 

Saw Johnny with The Pistol in the early aughts. Just a shambling mess. And a one hour show. Dropkick Murphy opened. They ran over The Pistols like a tank.

Saw PIL twice on the "This is What You Want... Tour" in Sydney, December 1984 and January 1985.

 

From pre-internet days, surprised to find so much info online, even a setlist from the Hordern Pavilion concert:

The Order of Death; Bad Life; Low Life; Memories; 1981; Flowers of Romance; Religion; Bodies; Public Image; This Is Not a Love Song; Anarchy in the U.K

 

They probably should have ceased to exist not long afterwards.

 

He's in that John Cale/Eno/David Byrne without the Talking Heads-category where I want to revere him from afar, but never have to listen to his mostly subpar output.