> aiming above all to play gently with the others
> and not have a nosebleed,
haha. Who could flame such a writer?
Approaching the question of new media in England again: is it every
bit as wired as the States? I mean the culture.
> p.s. re: johnny rotten - wasn't that more about posh audiences
dressing down
> at weekends, and punk becoming assimilated into media studies for
jon savage
> and ben watsnot to argue the endless toss about? i know lydon would
like
> everyone to think he was the brains behind 'metal box', but surely
we all know
> him now to be the jeffrey archer of adult oriented rock?
I've only heard him interviewed a couple of times, and it was not so
much his status (or lack of it) as the architect of the Sex Pistols
that interested me but rather the humour of his positions and, it
seems to me, his incendiary aspiration toward innovative, intelligent
action and creation. By the accounts I've read, the Sex Pistols were
highly packaged. How you get into that or ever out of it, perceptions
of perceptions of perceptions... willingly manipulated in the
lucrative performance art of the packagers... but Lydon himself,
despite obviously being implicated in all that, doesn't he seem to you
to have a fine shit detector?
What is the name of the very intelligent, stylish woman who was
instrumental in that packaging? She seems to have had a great deal of
good fun in that whole escapade and lays some claim herself to a kind
of conceptual art. I could see her influencing even Lydon and most any
other.
But, honestly, I know very little about Lydon and the Sex Pistols and
the whole punk scene in England or America. I'm 40, so might have been
involved in it, a bit, but wasn't. It wasn't until my mid-late
twenties that I had the attitude to try to go beyond the typical fare.
I had a somewhat sheltered Canadian lower middle class upbringing in
the suburbs of Victoria BC.
Neil Young, an artist whom I've admired since I was a boy, wrote The
Ballad of Johnny Rotten.
Regards,
Jim Andrews
most recent piece needs a sound card and shockwave:
http://vispo.com/audio/shockwave/RudeLittleSong.htm
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