Viva La Vida Loca!

Last tuesday something really strange happened to me. I have never thought, that I would ever have the pleasure to meet Mr. Glen Matlock.



For people, who don't know him: He's the original bassist of the legendary band SEX PISTOLS. Maybe you have heard of Sid Vicious. Vicious came to the band, after Matlock left. Why exactly he splitted up with the Sex Pistols is not clear, there are too many legends explaining different reasons.

We talked about an hour. I was pretty pretty excited before that talk ... well...I mean I listened to his latest album of his band "The Philistines", called "Born Running" (and I love it!) and of course I know several Sex Pistols-songs. I should mention, that Matlock wrote all those popular songs like "Pretty Vacant", "Anarchy in the U.K." and so on.

So of course we talked about his past concerning the Sex Pistols, the Rich Kids and The Faces (a kinda supergroup with Ron Wood, Ian McLagan.. and so on, their original singer was Rod Stewart).

I guess, Matlock joined in, when The Faces were thinking about a reunion in 2010. And Matlock told me, that playing with The Faces means so much to him because he was a great fan of them, when he was a teenager. They opened him a door to lots of different kinds of music like The Temptation.

At the moment he's thinking about a new album, that he will call S.O.S what means "Same Old Shit" :D
I tell you: Glen Matlock was very polite and nice and answered all my questions, so that we spent nearly an hour. I absolutely didn't expect that! But yeah he said "good questions!" and finally he played the song "Different World" on his acoustic guitar. He also invited me to come to his concert in the evening.

Of course me and my friend, Jacky, had to go there and I just can advice you to visit a concert of Glen Matlock.

For me this whole day was so not real. And even now I'm smiling :D I'll never forget this day :)

Here some music of Glen Matlock:

Glen Matlock & The Philistines_Born Running


soooo good!

Glen Matlock_Pretty Vacant (acoustic)


Rich Kids_Ghost Of Princes In Towers


The Rich Kids were influenced by punk and pop sounds and to my mind this song shows that pretty good. It's one of my favourites.