Ep184: Glen Matlock - Sex Pistols, The Rich Kids & more
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Glen Matlock co-founded Sex Pistols and co-wrote most of their material, as well as songs for The Rich Kids and Iggy Pop. Today Glen shares his history with vinyl records, discusses the early days of his musical journey, shares some stories and a track from his new LP.
If you like records, just starting a collection or are an uber-nerd with a house-full of vinyl, this is the podcast for you. Nate Goyer is The Vinyl Guide and discusses all things music and record-related.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Glenn Matlock live from London. |
| 0:02.5 | You're listening to The Vinyl Guide with my good new chum, Nate, who's living in the wrong place, really. Well, I don't know about that, but there you go. But we've been chatting about my latest album, good to go, amongst other things. Hey, everyone, it's Nate, host of the Vinyl Guide. Thanks for tuning in. As you've heard this week, we have Glenn Matlock here on the show. We are talking music and career. |
| 0:23.5 | He talks about his time with sex, for tuning in. As you've heard this week, we have Glenn Matlock here on the show. We are talking |
| 0:22.0 | music and career. He talks about his time with sex pistols, The Rich Kids, Iggy Pop, and of course |
| 0:27.7 | we chat about his latest solo album, Good to Go, which is available on vinyl everywhere. |
| 0:33.6 | Just ask your local record shop for it, or, as he suggests today, you can get a vinyl copy off |
| 0:39.2 | Amazon. Now, I'll play a track from this good to go album directly after the interview. I'm really |
| 0:44.8 | enjoying this record. Maybe you will too. Now, Glenn and I cover a lot of ground today, including |
| 0:52.7 | the formation and the early days of sex pistols, |
| 0:55.8 | which of course Glenn wrote or co-wrote the majority of the songs that ended up on Nevermind |
| 1:01.3 | the Bullocks, including favorites like God Save the Queen and Anarchy in the UK. What's interesting, |
| 1:07.6 | though, is that Glenn didn't play on the Nevermind the Bullocks LP. |
| 1:11.4 | The bass player was the guitarist Steve Jones, so the bass is played very similar to the guitar, |
| 1:17.5 | the same notes being struck in the same way as the guitar chords. |
| 1:21.2 | So if you want to hear how the songs were originally written a sound, check out the |
| 1:25.3 | Sex Pistols' Spunk demos, which was recorded while |
| 1:28.3 | Glenn was still in the band. The quality isn't as clear as Nevermind the Bullocks, but it's |
| 1:33.0 | somewhat refreshing to hear a baseline that's not just a direct translation of the guitar chords. |
| 1:38.4 | So check it out. Sex Pistols Spunk is available on all the streaming services. You could find |
| 1:42.3 | it on YouTube as well. Additionally interesting is that the release date of Nevermind the Bullocks was pulled forward |
| 1:48.7 | to combat a bootleg version of Spunk, which was coming out on Final, which is why we have |
| 1:55.0 | so many vinyl variations of Never Mind the Bullocks. There's an extremely hard to find |
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