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October 26, 2007

UNFUCKINBELIEVABLE

When a band leave the stage for a few minutes so that the singer can take a piss, and the audience just stand there patiently waiting for their return, you know that something special is going on ......and the Sex Pistols at The Roxy Theater in Los Angeles last night was that gig. It was the ONLY place to be, and a veritable who's who of Hollywood showed up, along with a bunch of Indie 103.1FM winners, to witness a truly powerful force - The Sex Pistols sounding stronger, tighter and more together than they have probably ever sounded in their 30 year career. One album and an original life span of about 16 months!! THATS what makes the band so special. Its hard to think of any other band that existed for just over a year, made one record, and STILL changed music and can come back 30 years later and literally BLOW most of the new music out of the water! The set was exactly what you would imagine - Opened with Holidays, closed with Anarchy and played just about every song they knew (with the exception of Bodies) along with covers Stepping Stone, No Fun and the best B Side in the history of 7" vinyl, Did You Know Wrong. Anyone who was at the gig will testify that watching a packed-to-the-rafters Roxy screaming the lyrics to Anarchy In The UK was an amazing sight, and Steve Jones STILL makes his guitars sound exactly like no one else in the business. The police presence after the show and the hordes of onlookers and "Sunset Strip Party People" will ensure that, much like the 100 Club shows in the UK thirty years previously, and even the Shepherds Bush Empire show in 96, last nights show will be the one that people say "I was there". In fact if the amount of people who SAY they were at the 100 Club shows, really WERE at those gigs, the band would have been playing to tens of thousands of people!! The 100 Club holds 400!! So lets see how many people say they were at The Roxy in 2007 ..........oh yeah, I was there!!!!

Billy

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Posted by vivelerock at October 26, 2007 09:07 AM

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