Badass Bassist Glen Matlock

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2016

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Original bassist of the Sex Pistols, Glen Matlock, shares 40-years worth of stories about the famed band. He’s talking about how he met Steve Jones and Johnny Lydon, what Malcolm Mcleran did for the band, when they realized they had started a musical movement of their own, and how they felt about the Ramones. He also reveals why he left the band before the release of their first and only album, where they found Sid Vicious, and whether there might be another historic Pistols reunion in time for their big anniversary next year!

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to Talk Is Jericho. It's the part of Thunder and Rock and Roll. And
0:21.1	happy Thanksgiving to all the amazing Talk Is Jericho fans in America. And here's something
0:25.9	to be thankful for. Talk Is Jericho's streak of rock and roll hall of fame guests continues
0:31.1	today with the original bass player of the four fathers of the whole punk scene, the
0:36.1	sex pistols. Glenn Matlock is here. Everybody's heard about the controversial pioneers, the
0:42.0	sex pistols. Glenn's series talking about the early days, how they met manager Malcolm
0:45.9	McLaren and got started as a band. Glenn's talking about the early punk scene and Britain
0:49.9	in the 70s. What do you think about the sex pistols role and all that? How they viewed
0:53.8	what the hormones were doing over in New York at the same time. Glenn's also talking about
0:57.8	his departure from the band, how they found Sid Vicious, the infamous Sid Vicious who did not play
1:02.9	on the sex pistols only record. And of course, what led to the pistols first reunion in 1996?
1:09.6	Could it ever happen again? He will weigh in on the question, it is live from London and a little
1:15.2	suburb of London and a little coffee shop in the basement. I was there with Glenn Matlock,
1:19.8	another great, great rock and roll conversation. Plus, I'm going to tell you all about my survivor
1:24.7	series weekend. And I'm going to tell you what I did on Monday after survivor series weekend.
1:29.6	I'm going to tell you what I did. I did DDP yoga and it felt great. I was definitely sore after
1:34.8	that five on five elimination match against team Smackdown. I want to match it was. I went 52 minutes,
1:41.6	which was crazy. And anytime you have a match with 10 guys, it's like lemmings running around.
1:46.4	You know, everybody's kind of got ideas and everybody's going back and forth and it's hard to
1:50.1	kind of take control. I'm used to taking control with the matches that I do kind of putting them
1:55.4	all together and that sort of thing. But in this match, I mean, you can only basically control the
1:59.7	stuff that you're doing. And it was a long weekend for me too because I had arranged to do,
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