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WATCH #SexPistols 'Today Show' #VIDEO from sexy #JanePauley and #JackPerkins - 1978

1978 NBC news segment on the horrors of The Sex Pistols coming to America

Everyone on the staff of NBC seems to be on Quaaludes in this mind-numbing segment about the Sex Pistols' US tour

The one exception is co-anchor Jane Pauley, whom I suspect to have been a secret fan, judging from her overtly bright eyes and restrained giggling, as she feigns disgust about Johnny Rotten, repeatedly blowing his nose while on stage, and proving to her co-anchor that she knows God Save the Queen by humming the melody.

Everyone else is freaked out in a weirdly restrained way (one reporter says Johnny Rotten looks like a reincarnated Gary Gilmore, even though Rotten bears zero resemblance to the infamous murderer).

In my vintage Today Show clip above, see how US viewers were introduced to British punk.
Perkins pretends it’s the first time anything like it had ever happened.

Cohen, a seasoned industry man who had previously managed the Fillmore East, predicts great things for the Sex Pistols.

But he expresses some skepticism about whether their savvy media manipulation was a new phenomenon, citing the Beatles and the Stones as having already broken such ground.

It’s depressingly easy to rile up millions of people these days with the click of a mouse.

Billion-dollar industries and political campaigns are built on such technology.
But before the empires of social media, there was television, a one-way medium and, prior to cable, an extremely limited one.

In those bygone days, you really had to put your back into it if you wanted widespread attention.


The Sex Pistols—including their manager and promoter, visionary huckster Malcolm McLaren—worked hard to cultivate infamy, using television as a primary means of generating shock value.

Although the band members, at least, never made any money, they were highly paid in notoriety on both sides of the Atlantic.

Their image as violent junkies who couldn’t play their instruments owed mainly to Sid Vicious, who replaced competent bassist and songwriter Glen Matlock in 1977, a move that boosted the band’s ability to freak people out while simultaneously setting them on a course for certain demise within the year.


The spectacular self-destruction occurred, as every fan knows well, on a tour of the US South that McLaren booked with the wickedest of intentions, springing the band on cowboy bars in Texas, for example, for the sake of sheer provocation.

Their final show at San Francisco’s Interlard Ballroom was caught on film, complete with the last song they ever played together, a cover of the Stooges “No Fun.”

After the one-song encore, Johnny Rotten sneered “ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” and dropped the mic, disgusted with the whole “ridiculous farce,” he later wrote.

Before embarking on their comically disastrous US tour, the Pistols got a heavy dose of free publicity from an American news media as eager then as ever to chase after a sensation.
In the vintage Today Show clip above, see how US viewers were introduced to British punk.

“Whether naturally or calculatedly so,” says NBC’s Jack Perkins after reporting on Vicious and drummer, Paul Cook’s refusal to grant an interview unless they were each paid $10,

“the four young men are outrageous.

They’re also vile and profane.”

Perkins then walks viewers through the hardly shocking details of rudeness to hotel staff and a bit of a mess left in their room, shaking his head sadly.

No band could hope to top Led Zeppelin when it came to this most cliched of rock and roll stunts.

But Perkins pretends it’s the first time anything like it had ever happened.

McLaren could not have scripted better finger-wagging outrage to inspire American gawkiness (some of whom give brief post-concert interviews) to come out and see the Pistols flame out on their final tour.

Then there are the record execs Perkins gets on camera, including A&M's Kip Cohen, who sized up the situation astutely:

“There’s a case of an act and management and intelligence behind an act, brilliantly utilizing the media, cashing in and creating a whole hype for itself.”

Cohen, a seasoned industry man who had previously managed the Fillmore East, predicts great things for the Sex Pistols.

But he expresses some skepticism about whether their savvy media manipulation was a new phenomenon, citing the Beatles and the Stones as having already broken such ground.

One could go back even further to Chuck Berry and Elvis, who pushed many of the same outrage buttons for what constituted “clicks” in olden times.

But as Perkins points out—shaking his head in disapproval, before cutting back to a snickering Jane Pauley and very serious Tom Brokaw—the Pistols pulled it off by looking like they couldn't possibly have cared any less about being good at what they did, which took an entirely different kind of talent.


The Sex Pistols Make a Scandalous Appearance & Introduce Punk Rock to the Very Last Concert (San Francisco, 1978), in Dallas' Longhorn Ballroom w/ Merle Haggard (1978), and Johnny Rotten’s Cordial Letter to the Rock Hall and to the Sex Pistols, "You’re a Piss Stain," Malcolm McLaren, and The Quest for Authentic Creativity by Josh Jones, a writer and musician based in Durham, NC, as well as,

Mark Frauenfelder
Cory Doctorow
David Pescovitz
Xeni Jardin
Rob Beschizza

#WATCH 15 #Elvis #Deathweek #videos by @mrjyn THE完 PERFECT完 AMERICANな (August 16, 2007) Guest Blogger - #PCLLinkDump

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Marlon and his Tahitian friends

Marlon Brando and Tahitian friends have fun at a UNICEF fund raising gala in Paris, France 1967.Uploaded by mrdantefontana666
(a tip of the hat to mrjyn)

Monday, April 12, 2010


Let Her Light Your Candle.


Uploaded by mrjyn.

Pan's people



added by mrjyn:

"Dancing around dogs, one of which left the set shortly after the start of the performance, for Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Get Down" on 25 December 1973 What were they? Back in the day,six young ladies known as the Gyro-Pogo Tops decided to have their own exclusive dance-a-long Who were Bibs Lardy, Ruthy Person and Dee Welee Dee? Beater Gals'? Who recruited Luise Clare? People found the baby and replaced Cherry Gillespie to get married by Sue Mnemonic Babs. Their first few hours they dreamed up a numerously literal dance, called the Four Star Flipper Man and Legs Over the Mantle dance. Babs married actor Robert Powell and they live in Compost. Louise, a millionaire with a house of Marble returned a gift few of the girls had bought her in the '60s."

Valley Girl


Moon Zappa performs daddy's Valley Girl:

(Thanks to mrjyn)

WATCH #ElvisPresley 1970 PLUS #Comments - 'Hillbilly, nice delusion you got there about your idol - Elvis is completely HIGH - you know shit abut Elvis, coon motherfucker - delusion is strong with you'







NO he is not high, he is learning the lyrics and phrasing, or remembering as it was ages since he did any of these song recourse of all the movies at the time ...



Hillbilly, loll, nice delusion you got there about your idol.

Elvis is completely high



The only delusion here is yours, loll, he certainly was not high here

Bill Pat oh good one.

Except that the delusion is actually strong with you



buffaloes, try going one week not singing a song.

you won't remember shit.

we're talking 1956 songs


buffaloes Yeah, I like Elvis a lot, but this is why is he's not with us now... Drugs.

Lots of them. He's fucked up on opiates here.


Andrew Coon bro Elvis didn't even start drugs on this era It's late 1969 Elvis got really into drugs late 1973 little bit before that but that how Elvis rehearsals don't judge so fast


Joseph Basho, LOLL.

Elvis was on drugs since his Army days. You need to watch Elvis Mob or Elvis's last 24 hours. He took barbiturates, speed, and quite possibly opiates pre 1969. He started on barbs and amphetamines in the movie years.


Andrew Coon bro haven't you seen him on comeback special 68 Mm-mm he doesn't look like somebody's taking speed and some shit he looked better than ever


Andrew Coon he might could've taken drugs but it's wasn't really shown till the 70s he looked fine to me for all these years, after aloha from Hawaii he messed up soon bad



Andrew Coon - you know shit abut Elvis coon mother fucker


Stanley Booth 'Keith: Standing in the Shadows' - 'Seersucker' Search, Common Terms (links), and Popular Passages PLUS About the author (1996)


 SEERSUCKER





Common terms and phrases




Popular passages

Page 134 - Jimmy went in a lion and came out a lamb. We wore him out completely. Jimmy was great, but the more successful he became, the more he got like Brian.
Page 137 - Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you" often contains more than a kernel of truth.
Page 131 - She's a Rainbow," or the intricately haunting beauty of "2,000 Light Years" and "Paint It Black," one is amazed that Keith's body of work hasn't received more considered critical attention.
Page 119 - Keep it cool! Hey, if you don't cool it, you ain't gonna hear no music!
Page 112 - You may be high, you may be low, You may be rich, you may be po', But, when the Lord gets ready, You gotta move.
Page 180 - I fucked up that night, I forgot to pull out,' and 'Okay, we can do plenty more, if that one fucks up we can have another one—' We can be incredibly callous about ourselves.
Page 43 - What about mixing it?' I said, 'What's that?' and he looked at me like, 'What the fuck is this?


About the author (1996)

Elisabeth Sussman is curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, and editor of "Gordon Matta-Clark: "You Are the Measure." "Thomas Weski is chief curator of the Haus der Kunst, Munich. Tina Kukielski is senior curatorial assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art.

Stanley Booth is an independent music critic and writer.