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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S1E29: Glen Matlock

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week we speak to one of the artists who so perfectly sums up this show. We welcome to Rockonteurs, a punk icon and one hell of a storyteller!

It’s only a Sex Pistol! Guy Pratt and Gary Kemp welcome, Glen Matlock.



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0:00.0

So another bass player? Oh my God, how many is this?

0:03.1

It's not like we haven't had any guitarist.

0:05.8

Yes, but in the real world there should be more guitarists generally than bass players.

0:11.6

Is that that is true true isn't it?

0:13.4

No it's true that there are it's not necessarily true that there should be.

0:17.1

Well because there could be two guitarists for every one bass player.

0:20.3

Yeah but I mean there could be two bass players for every one guitarist.

0:24.0

What band is that? I'm never going to see them play.

0:28.6

Peter Hook.

0:29.6

But what's funny, actually, I saw Peter Hook with his solo band and what's funny was that he so he had another bass player

0:36.4

So he's playing all his stuff which so yeah, so there's this bass play playing all of hookies lines which are all right up the dusty end anyway and then which so that which frees hookie up to go even further up the dusty end.

0:50.3

So you've got two bass players and still no bass happening at all.

0:55.0

Call for Guy Pratt.

0:58.0

Well, we've got another bass player coming on now, haven't we? So this is our moment.

1:05.0

Yes, we have, yeah, we have a true trailblazing original.

1:09.0

But not just a bass player, like Paul McCartney, a bass player songwriter. Yes, yeah absolutely and actually that I don't

1:17.8

think he gets the I don't think he quite gets the credit for that for you know

1:21.1

it's it's for certainly an epoch making catalog shall we say.

1:27.0

Let's dig deep and find out.

1:28.5

Welcome to the Rockontours.

1:30.0

Okay guys, I'm ready.

1:32.8

But it's a big tune for sure. I actually wrote that originally for Tina Turner.

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