Glen Matlock stated the model of his break up with the Intercourse Pistols seen in TV miniseries Pistol was unfaithful, and supplied his personal rationalization, including that he’d refused a request from supervisor Malcolm McLaren to rejoin quickly after he’d been fired.
The bassist – credited as author on 10 of the 12 tracks on By no means Thoughts the Bollocks – stated he hadn’t been consulted in February 1977 when McLaren introduced Sid Vicious as his alternative. In a latest interview with the Instances, Matlock reported he’d been “extremely dissatisfied” with the account depicted on TV.
The reality, he stated, was that EMI had instructed him they’d be keen on signing him if he left the Pistols. “And I assumed, ‘I’m getting all this shit from John [Lydon] and Malcolm; Steve [Jones] and Paul [Cook] weren’t backing me up. I heard they tried out Sid on bass, which aggravated me, and I solely hung in there as a result of I used to be getting my wages. So I left.”
He continued: “Every week after that Malcolm despatched a telegram to the NME saying I used to be sacked as a result of I favored the Beatles. Two weeks after that I’m within the Blue Posts [pub]… and Malcolm is available in and says: ‘It’s not understanding with Sid – are you able to come again?’ So I replied: ‘The best way you handled me, are you fucking joking?’”
Trying again on the Pistols’ collapse in 1978, he mirrored: “It jogged my memory of what John Entwistle as soon as stated of the Who: that if he was leaping round like Daltrey, Townshend and Moon, the band would collapse. There was a steadiness after I was within the Pistols. Sid Vicious wished to be the lead man and the equilibrium went.”
However Matlock was snug with participating within the band’s subsequent reunions, beginning in 1996. “By then we had grudging respect for one another and there was just a few bob at stake too,” he stated. “To play our music correctly, in entrance of an enormous crowd, was nice, and we had been flying first-class as a substitute of crammed right into a Transit van. We didn’t even should get on the identical flight.”
He accepted he’d by no means escape his reference to the punk icons, saying: “It jogs my memory of what Keith Richards stated when a journalist requested him the worth of milk: ‘I don’t know, man; I’ve been a rock star all my life.’ I’ve been an ex-Intercourse Pistol all my life. Regardless of how a lot you attempt to do different issues, it’s at all times there.”
Matlock releases new album Penalties Coming on Apr. 23. The lead single, “Head on a Stick,” may be heard under:
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