Never Mind The Pistols

Faux -anarchy and "punk" rock arrived on the Sunset Strip last night as the Sex Pistols played the famed Roxy for all the wrong reasons.

The band played almost all of their songs during the hour-long set, which is not surprising considering they only put out one album before disbanding. With famous fuck-up Sid Vicious dirt napping, the only headline grabbing tactic they can use is to promote that it's the original members. Yeah, go ahead and name them...I thought so.

By all accounts, the performance was a little rusty -- with reviewers actually calling the poor showing "predictably" so. What a treat it must have been to see singer Johnny Rotten forgetting the words to the first song of the night. Way to prepare for a show, dickbag. When the man who snidely chided "Do you ever get the felling like you've been cheated" becomes the cliche he was mocking, well, that's just delightful. Rotten then wanked like a primadonna about the sound and the heat.

Bollocks all around. This was a sponsored, promo tie-in with the release of Guitar Hero III. The Sex Pistols were always over-rated, now they're entering legendary status...as marketing tools, emphasis on tool. A "reunion" show with the underlying intention of selling video games - that's brilliant. Their brand name is bigger, better, and more important than their weak music, so pumping a game is what they were suited for. This show, and the motivation to do it proves how punk they are.