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Sex Pistols Reunite For Guitar Hero III 47

Posted by Zonk from the god-save-the-queen dept.
1up is reporting that the Sex Pistols are getting the band back together for at least one recording session. They're laying down a master track for the upcoming Guitar Hero III, for the song 'Anarchy in the U.K.'. "Original members John Lydon (Johnny Rotten), Steve Jones, and Paul Cook hit the studio together for the first time in 30 years, hooking up with original producer Chris Thomas to maintain the feel of the recording. Additionally, the original analog sound desk, built in 1969 for producer George Martin at Air Studios in London, was utilized for aural authenticity."
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  • Sex Pistols Reunite... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by WgT2 ( 591074 ) on Thursday September 27, 2007 @06:26AM (#20765927) Journal

    ...to make some money.

    • Re: (Score:3, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward

      As a regular poster on a really active punk ban forum, I have a good guess as to what that community will say about all this.


      One half will flame "Zomg sellouts" and the other half will think to themselves "with next weeks allowance I can play it on Mom and Dads flatscreen..."

      • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

        by Alcoholic Synonymous ( 990318 )
        As Rotten said on the big mid 90's reunion tour... what's more punk than only doing it for the money?

        I mean, if true, they will be the same musicians on the same (tired old) song and dance, even the same MONO equipment... probably not even with half the intensity that made the original famous. And best of all, they will be PAID to do it all over again.

        I can hear Rotten saying this on the final take: "There's your bloody pop song, now where's my fucking check?"

        Too many people seem to think that to be a real

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by dintech ( 998802 )
        It's great how this is pretty much an age split.

    • Their fans will be happy, regardless. (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      I think that most of their fans will be pleased, even if they did do this just for the money.

      All but one fan, I suspect. One of my hardcore punk friends was talking about disbanded, classic punk bands reuniting for one final go. He said that without Sid, the Sex Pistols would never reform. He was so sure of himself, that he even agreed to stick a watchmaker's screwdriver into his urethra.....

      • Re: (Score:1, Informative)

        by Anonymous Coward
        Um, the Sex Pistols already did reform for the "Filthy Lucre" tour.

        I saw them at Glastonbury during said tour and they were fucking rubbish.

        Of all genres, punk is one that really is better suited to young musicians.

        • Re: (Score:1)

          by Yoozer ( 1055188 )

          Of all genres, punk is one that really is better suited to young musicians.
          And younger players, since you only need 3 buttons for the chords. Ey, Oh, Let's go!
          • So, how does that work with guitar hero? Is this song only playable on easy? Or are they perhaps laying down this track while intoxicated, and the object is to hit all the same wrong notes they do? I'm confused! Can someone explain?

            Yes, I'm being facetious.

        • Of all genres, punk is one that really is better suited to young musicians.

          Why? Because a pastiche is less obviously a pastiche if the people doing it aren't as old and withered as the style they're aping? Or because we're supposed to go, "Haw haw, clever kids, embracing the idea of the destruction of genre forms by...embracing a genre form..." Both seem pretty worn out and tired to me. Geriatric hip-hop would be positively original by comparison, and then that's only because we haven't had that many pu

        • Of all genres, punk is one that really is better suited to young musicians.

          Eh, I don't know. Punk is a pretty vague term but there are quite a few bands who have been regualrly touring or reuniting since the 70's and 80's, still bringing in new fans and still playing great shows. Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, Social Distortion, Flipper, Fugazi are a few I've seen in the past few years, though by no means a comprehensive or accurate list so please don't flame me (my mind's working slow as I haven't had my coff
    • Well, they've had some far better opportunities than this. They keep reuniting for one-off events, but never for good, and I admire them for that, at least.
      Lord knows the last thing we need is ANOTHER revived and lame old band.

    • Re:Sex Pistols Reunite... (Score:5, Informative)

      by skammie ( 802503 ) on Thursday September 27, 2007 @07:53AM (#20766551) Homepage
      The entire band never shied away from money. Rotten has always said he does things for the money. Did you ever see the Bill Grundy episode they were on for crying out loud? For the record Glenn Matlock was the original bassist in the Sex Pistols, and it is his bass lines you here on all of 'Never Mind the Bollocks.' It's funny really. He was booted from the band weeks before the recording, and Sid could not play properly. So Glenn was hired back as a studio musician, and Glenn wound up with more money in his pocket then the rest of the band after the recording sessions were over.

      • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

        by MojoStan ( 776183 )

        For the record Glenn Matlock was the original bassist in the Sex Pistols, and it is his bass lines you here on all of 'Never Mind the Bollocks.' It's funny really. He was booted from the band weeks before the recording, and Sid could not play properly. So Glenn was hired back as a studio musician, and Glenn wound up with more money in his pocket then the rest of the band after the recording sessions were over.

        The record is a little hazy. No one seems to dispute that Glenn wrote almost all the bass lines on Bollocks. Heck, the song writing process was usually: Glenn wrote the music, Johnny Rotten wrote the lyrics.

        However, I think the most accepted version of events has guitarist Steve Jones playing Glenn's bass lines on Bollocks except for one song played by Glenn ("Anarchy in the UK") and one song by Sid ("Bodies"). Glenn did get proper song writing credits, so he got paid.

        I believe the story about Glenn be

    • As long as it isn't to make another record. Can you just imagine ...

    • Original members John Lydon (Johnny Rotten), Steve Jones, and Paul Cook hit the studio together for the first time in 30 years, hooking up with original producer Chris Thomas to maintain the feel of the recording. Additionally, the original analog sound desk, built in 1969 for producer George Martin at Air Studios in London, was utilized for aural authenticity

      so they go to all that trouble (original producer, soundboard, etc.), but no glen matlock, who was responsible for their arrangements? hmmm...

      • so they go to all that trouble (original producer, soundboard, etc.), but no glen matlock, who was responsible for their arrangements? hmmm...

        ...and they're leaving Glenn out for the one song he actually played bass on? (Yes, he wrote the arrangements, but Steve Jones supposedly played bass in the studio.)

        Note that the press release came from Activision, so those publicists at that gaming company might not know the band's history. I wouldn't be surprised if most people thought Sid Vicious was an "original member" and assumed Glenn was "Sid's replacement" for the reunions. Sid represented the look and the attitude of the Sex Pistols. Glenn was

    • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

      by dghcasp ( 459766 )

      Are you surprised?

      If I remember correctly, their reunion tour about 10 years ago was titled "We want your money."

    • Ever get the feeling you've been had?

  • Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Thursday September 27, 2007 @07:09AM (#20766149)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • They've reunited before - just not in studio (Score:3, Informative)

    by zgeist ( 518921 ) <dave.reese@ m a c.com> on Thursday September 27, 2007 @08:29AM (#20766873)
    This is a bunch of marketing hype. The Pistols have reunited and performed together several times in the last 10 or 11 years. In fact, they are about to have another reunion tour this fall. In '96 it was the Filthy Lucre tour or some such thing and sometime in 2002 or 2003 they had some other tour - the Piss Off tour, I think it was called. In addition, it's just re-recording a track they already originally recorded. It's not like they are about to release an actual new song. Nothing to see here, move along
  • They are listed on the soundtrack for the game Skate [ea.com], as well. They redid "Pretty Vacant"
  • FTA: "Master track issues pushed the band into the studio."

    And just what issues were they? Lost masters? Bad masters? (seeing as it IS the Sex Pistols, I doubt they'd argue "quality").

    Does anyone know?

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