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| From | "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Lydon |
| Date | Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:57:49 -0500 |
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Amen, my brother.
----- Original Message -----
From: <rob@splitsville.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:36 AM
Subject: Lydon
> Got to call bullshit on the Lydon bashing, saying that he 'didn't have any
> songs'. Simply not true. Enough has been said/written about Bollocks. We
> can all admit that it's a tremendously important (and great) record.
>
> After the Pistols broke up, everyone was expecting JL to remain Johnny
> Rotten and put out Bolllocks, Pt. 2. Instead, he formed Public Image, Ltd
> and released music that was not only radically different than the Pistols,
> but also extremely influential to the post punk world (somewhere in Dublin
> the Edge was listening to Keith Levine).
>
> No songs? Death Disco, Rise, Disappointed and others are, in a word,
> fantastic.
>
> You may not like JL's voice, but rock and roll/punk/whatever isn't about
> technique, range, etc. as much as it is about delivery and attitude.
>
> And for the fact that he told that carb-head Wenner to fuck off means we
> should respect him (dare I say 'love'?) even more.
>
>
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