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Whern Eddie And The Hot Rods play at The Marquee Club, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe, they are supported by The Sex Pistols, who proceed to destroy The Hot Rods' equipment.Full article:
John Butler (Diesel Park West) : The bar at The Marquee just emptied - literally emptied, there was nobody in there. All the business posers came out and watched this teddy-boy in brothel creepers, singing. I remember The Pistols being really loud and bang in tune. The big thing about punk rock was that it was never in tune. Well, the Sex Pistols, take it from me, were in tune. They could play. Steve Jones, the big fat slob hamburger guitarist, was good, a powerful sound.
Vic Godard (Subway Sect) : I was walking with Rob Simmons past the Marquee when we heard this noise. We went straight in and saw Johnny Rotten in the audience, throwing chairs about. We loved their image, but we weren’t that mad on the actual music. But the performance was brilliant. We’d been doing rhythm’n’blues stuff and this blew that right out the window.
John Lydon : Eddie and the Hot Rods were show-casing for a record company that night. They knew we had a reputation, and they wanted us there. ‘Sure you can use our monitors.’ Since we never had our own stage monitors, we had to rely on others for their equipment and, if they bugger you about, that’s the end for you. If you can’t hear what you’re doing, you’re fucked. But when it came to the actual gig, somehow the monitors were turned off. I call that industrial sabotage or a major mistake and didn’t take kindly to it. That’s when things started to go sadly wrong for Eddie and the Hot Rods. I put a mike stand through one of their monitors.
Glen Matlock : The real problem was that it was the first time Johnny had heard his voice properly, and he didn’t like it. While we kept on playing, he took a pencil and stabbed it through all the speaker cones in the PA.
Neil Spencer (journalist) : I was there for NME, but the place was half-empty. The first thing I noticed was that they looked completely unique. Big mohair sweaters and spiky hair - absolutely nobody looked like that. And people were shouting abuse at the band, but what was novel was that the band shouted right back. Musically, they were raw, exciting and charismatic. When I spoke to them afterwards they gave me that famous quote, ‘We’re not into music, we’re into chaos,’ which had obviously been primed by Malcolm, and they faithfully trotted it out.
Dave Higgs (Eddie And The Hot Rods) : They can't play or nuffink. They just insult the audience. They wrecked our PA. We waited for them to apologise but they had fucked off.
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Vic Godard (Subway Sect) : I was walking with Rob Simmons past the Marquee when we heard this noise. We went straight in and saw Johnny Rotten in the audience, throwing chairs about. We loved their image, but we weren’t that mad on the actual music. But the performance was brilliant. We’d been doing rhythm’n’blues stuff and this blew that right out the window.
John Lydon : Eddie and the Hot Rods were show-casing for a record company that night. They knew we had a reputation, and they wanted us there. ‘Sure you can use our monitors.’ Since we never had our own stage monitors, we had to rely on others for their equipment and, if they bugger you about, that’s the end for you. If you can’t hear what you’re doing, you’re fucked. But when it came to the actual gig, somehow the monitors were turned off. I call that industrial sabotage or a major mistake and didn’t take kindly to it. That’s when things started to go sadly wrong for Eddie and the Hot Rods. I put a mike stand through one of their monitors.
Glen Matlock : The real problem was that it was the first time Johnny had heard his voice properly, and he didn’t like it. While we kept on playing, he took a pencil and stabbed it through all the speaker cones in the PA.
Neil Spencer (journalist) : I was there for NME, but the place was half-empty. The first thing I noticed was that they looked completely unique. Big mohair sweaters and spiky hair - absolutely nobody looked like that. And people were shouting abuse at the band, but what was novel was that the band shouted right back. Musically, they were raw, exciting and charismatic. When I spoke to them afterwards they gave me that famous quote, ‘We’re not into music, we’re into chaos,’ which had obviously been primed by Malcolm, and they faithfully trotted it out.
Dave Higgs (Eddie And The Hot Rods) : They can't play or nuffink. They just insult the audience. They wrecked our PA. We waited for them to apologise but they had fucked off.
(Source : not known)