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I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol The Rock Doc From The Bands Bass Guitarist Glen Matlock · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Here's something I want you to check out. Aro dot net,
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy your exploration, Glenn. I gotta tell you, this has
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  Speaker 1: got to be one of the greatest rock documentaries I've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen. I felt like I was. You made me
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  Speaker 1: feel so special when you brought out that bass guitar
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  Speaker 1: and you were banging out that bass and explaining songs
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  Speaker 1: to us. It was such a once in a lifetime
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  Speaker 1: experience from you, and I just what a brilliant idea.
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  Speaker 2: Sir, Oh, I'll want to do it again.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what happens is, Glenn, is it really opens up
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  Speaker 1: our eyes to the real story of the Sex Pistols
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  Speaker 1: and that that you know someone People went, oh, it's
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  Speaker 1: punk rock, it's punk rock. But when you break it down,
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  Speaker 1: there's so much more to your music than just a
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  Speaker 1: stupid identity that the journalist wanted to put back on
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  Speaker 1: you guys in the seventies.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well maybe so. I always think of punk rock
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  Speaker 2: is kind of proper music played badly. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what, though, it helped me with my
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  Speaker 1: own garage band when I was in high school, because
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  Speaker 1: if you guys were getting away with it, so was I.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what really opened up my imagination. And I
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  Speaker 1: would love to see how if you guys would not
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  Speaker 1: have been a part of this movement, what would the
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  Speaker 1: world be like. No, you guys broke the rules. You
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  Speaker 1: did everything to make sure the rest of us followed along, right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we had that much largest though. We
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  Speaker 2: kind of did it for our own benefit. If everybody
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  Speaker 2: got something out of it, that's fantastic and I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: of that. But we came. We came first in our minds.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we were just young. We're trying to climb
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  Speaker 2: the greasy pole of life artistically somehow, with hopefully something
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  Speaker 2: to say which people, something were picked up on, and
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  Speaker 2: a sound to go with it. So there you go.
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  Speaker 2: If you feel we helped you cool.
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  Speaker 1: You absolutely did.
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  Speaker 2: On the other people come up to me at gigs
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  Speaker 2: and go hey, can you change my life? I said, well, don't,
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  Speaker 2: bling and play mate of our own destiny.
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  Speaker 1: But what I love about the documentary is that you
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  Speaker 1: don't just take us back to the past to stay there.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's forward motion, is what it is, because it's
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  Speaker 1: getting me ready for this tour that you guys are
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  Speaker 1: about ready to do. And when I go in there
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  Speaker 1: to stand live in that audience, I am going to
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  Speaker 1: see you guys as a completely different story because all
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  Speaker 1: we had were guitar magazines and journalists back in the seventies,
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  Speaker 1: and now you've given us this documentary that opens up
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  Speaker 1: that door.
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  Speaker 2: We look cool. I'm glad of that, you know, going forward.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I don't wake up every morning thinking, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm in the set pistols or I wasn't the sex pistols.
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  Speaker 2: I'm more interested in what's the latest news song I've
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  Speaker 2: got going? You know, I like to live in the present,
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  Speaker 2: look at the future, and off my cap to the past.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, people are interested in pistols. I still
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  Speaker 2: think we sound pretty contemporary. I'm kind of friends with
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  Speaker 2: Paul Weller. We played a little club walm up gig
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  Speaker 2: in London last year, and Paul came down and he
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  Speaker 2: said he was knocked out of it. He thought he
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  Speaker 2: was the gig of the year, and he thought we
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  Speaker 2: were still serving fresh and as fresh as exciting as
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  Speaker 2: first time around as when he saw us, you know,
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  Speaker 2: first time around. So you know we must be doing
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  Speaker 2: something right. And and you know, we've all played with
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  Speaker 2: different things over the years, with different lineups, you know,
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  Speaker 2: different projects and stuff, and we got good at what
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  Speaker 2: we was doing. And it was only ever a simple
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  Speaker 2: thing done well in the first place anyway, So I
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  Speaker 2: think we've managed to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, please don't move. There's more with Glenn Mattlock from
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  Speaker 1: the Sex Pistols coming up next, getting the real story
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  Speaker 1: of the sex Pistols. It is not what you think.
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  Speaker 1: We are back with Glenn Mattlock. I'm so excited about
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  Speaker 1: you guys going forward with the tour in the in
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  Speaker 1: the way of you're going to be in Utah. Well,
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  Speaker 1: here's the thing. I interview a lot of punk bands
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  Speaker 1: from Utah of all places. So to see you guys
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  Speaker 1: going into Salt Lake City, I'm telling you the whole
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  Speaker 1: world is going to be levitating to that moment because
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  Speaker 1: Utah is the punk rock capital right now, because that's
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  Speaker 1: where they're all coming from already. Yeah, that's right. But
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  Speaker 1: that's why I was blown away by it. When I
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  Speaker 1: started collecting the stories from those punk rock bands from Utah.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, we all have this assumption. That's not what
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  Speaker 1: the sex pistols were about. That's not what punk was about.
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  Speaker 1: Punk was about being you and being in that moment.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, okay, if the utah are Utahians or whatever
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  Speaker 3: they're called, filled that and they want to punk it
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  Speaker 3: up a bit because of us, that's that's great.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I will find out to get there. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you normally end up playing in places because it works
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  Speaker 2: on the tour routin and the money is right and
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  Speaker 2: all that. But hopefully you go somewhere and you get
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  Speaker 2: something out of everywhere that you play, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: I'm intend to do. So I will keep an eye
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  Speaker 2: out for the Utah punk thing.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, where can people go to find out more about
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  Speaker 1: the documentary? About everything that you're doing, because you have
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  Speaker 1: proven that creativity does not end when you fall off
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  Speaker 1: the headlines, because no, you are still here and you
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  Speaker 1: are still growing.
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  Speaker 2: Well okay, well, the documentary is coming out and I
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  Speaker 2: think in two days time it's somebody an Apple TV
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  Speaker 2: in the States. It's already been out in England and
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  Speaker 2: it's coming out in Japan. So I've got social media pages.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a website Glenn matt Lock dot co dot uk,
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  Speaker 2: and it's kind of pretty up to date with what
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  Speaker 2: I'm up to with other projects and things. But we've
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  Speaker 2: all had to put our various different things to one side,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to concentrate on the pistol thing. But I
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  Speaker 2: will say also that over the past couple of years
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  Speaker 2: I played on the was playing with Blondie and I've
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  Speaker 2: made an album with them that is coming out imminently
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's going to be called high Noon,
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  Speaker 2: and Clem Burke's on it is his last recorded work.
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  Speaker 2: And I've actually got a song on the album and
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  Speaker 2: Please that they've done called sleep Walking. So yeah, there's
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  Speaker 2: life in Neil dog Get.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Well, please come back to this show anytime in
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  Speaker 1: the future, and I hope you enjoy the conversations you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be having with all these radio people that
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be meeting today, because we all want
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  Speaker 1: to have a conversation with you.
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  Speaker 2: That's nice to know, good to know. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today? Okay Glenn, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Well there you go. Hope your camping goes well.
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  Speaker 1: Oh thank you so much, Thank you so much,