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March 26th, 2007 at 12:18am
i just like to talk about sid vicious
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March 28th, 2007 at 12:05pm
Alright let me start a topic..What parts of Holidays In the Sun and Bodies do you thing Sid wrote?
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April 7th, 2007 at 04:11pm
No idea, but Sid didn't know how to play bass to save his life. He did all his shows with the amps turned off because he couldn't play. He just swung the bass around. That's why I despise all the fame he got. No talent, he just rode the rest of the band to fame. Hate to break it to anyone who didn't know before, but there it is.
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April 8th, 2007 at 12:53am
i know that, but man he's one cool dude
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April 8th, 2007 at 11:45am
He didn't write any of Holidays In The Sun. He didn't write any of Bodies either.
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April 8th, 2007 at 11:46am
StAttic6:
No idea, but Sid didn't know how to play bass to save his life. He did all his shows with the amps turned off because he couldn't play. He just swung the bass around. That's why I despise all the fame he got. No talent, he just rode the rest of the band to fame. Hate to break it to anyone who didn't know before, but there it is.

As Johnny Rotten has said "All the music went out the window when Sid came along". I don't hate Sid, I mostly pity him. But I also respect him.
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April 8th, 2007 at 12:01pm
Rotten:
He didn't write any of Holidays In The Sun. He didn't write any of Bodies either.


well, in the booklet for the remastered CD of Never Mind The Bollocks it credits everyone, so ,yeah, i think i'd belive the actually pistols (sorry to be an asshole)
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April 8th, 2007 at 06:01pm
*shrugs* okay don't believe me. It's no sweat off my back.
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April 11th, 2007 at 06:19pm
sid couldnt play bass for shit but fucking hell that guy had attitude, and thats fundamentally what the sex pistol were about; attitude baby!
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April 12th, 2007 at 11:52pm
Nine_Inch_Nails:
sid couldnt play bass for shit but fucking hell that guy had attitude, and thats fundamentally what the sex pistol were about; attitude baby!
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May 19th, 2007 at 10:39am
He couldnt play bass. He was nicknamed after a Hamster that bit him. He lived fast & died young. But all in all he didnt give a fuck and he did it his way. Respect.
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May 19th, 2007 at 08:13pm
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He was nicknamed after a Hamster that bit him.


Does anyone else find that vaguely amusing?

Cool


Yesh rather.
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Has anyone here read "England's Dreaming"? good book if your interested in the Pistols. Very Happy
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December 1st, 2007 at 04:18pm
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Has anyone here read "England's Dreaming"? good book if your interested in the Pistols. Very Happy

I read some parts of it that were in the newspaper a couple of months ago. I wanted to buy it but couldn't find it anywhere.
"Pretty Vacant: The History Of Punk" is also a great book about Pistols and other early punk bands tehe
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December 8th, 2007 at 02:47pm
I love reading John Lydon's interviews and accounts of what was going on at the time because he's such a cynic and he loves to screw around with the press so you never know if you're getting a straight answer out of him but whatever you've got, it's alway a laugh.
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December 14th, 2007 at 05:24am
unlucky goose:
Alright let me start a topic..What parts of Holidays In the Sun and Bodies do you thing Sid wrote?

None. He wasn't even there when the songs were written. They just put his name on them because he was a member of the band when they wrote the songs and they always listed all the members as writers.

Other random facts:
Real Name: John Simon Ritchie
Birthday: May 10, 1957 (to Ann Beverely and John Ritchie)
Deathday: February 2, 1979 (heroin overdose... provided by his mother)
- Dabbled with speed in college.
- Lived in Ibiza with his mother as a youngen.
- Met John Lydon at art school.
- Squatted with John Lydon and other friends multiple times in his youth (well, he never really got past youth, haha).
- Was often unplugged at shows.
- Bashed an audience member over the head with his bass at a show at the Longhorn in Dallas, TX in 1978.
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December 14th, 2007 at 05:25am
Nine_Inch_Nails:
sid couldnt play bass for shit but fucking hell that guy had attitude, and thats fundamentally what the sex pistol were about; attitude baby!

He could play alright when he wasn't high. 'Alright' meaning he could play the Sex Pistols songs, which really doesn't take too much talent. haha.
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December 15th, 2007 at 02:06pm
You guys will like this one:
He started the trend to jump up and down at the Sex Pistols gigs because when he was just a punter before he joined, he complained at one show that he couldn't see the band so he started pogo sticking, then the audience joined in and it stuck for pretty much every single Sex Pistols concert since.
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July 14th, 2008 at 09:50pm
unlucky goose:
Alright let me start a topic..What parts of Holidays In the Sun and Bodies do you thing Sid wrote?


None... they just put his name on the copyright because he was in the band when they wrote it. They used to do that with every song so that everyone would get paid evenly.
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July 14th, 2008 at 09:51pm
Anji:
You guys will like this one:
He started the trend to jump up and down at the Sex Pistols gigs because when he was just a punter before he joined, he complained at one show that he couldn't see the band so he started pogo sticking, then the audience joined in and it stuck for pretty much every single Sex Pistols concert since.


I hear he was on speed at the time, as well Very Happy
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