Glen Matlock is a superb musician, there will be little question about it. He’s skilled a storied profession of many twists and turns and is rightly hailed as one of many definitive heroes of recent British music.
Because the bassist of the British punk band the Intercourse Pistols, Matlock contributed to probably the most consequential albums ever launched, By no means Thoughts the Bollocks, Right here’s the Intercourse Pistols. After his contentious departure from Britain’s premier punk rabble, he undertook a wide range of endeavours, which included taking part in within the short-lived new wave supergroup Wealthy Youngsters and that includes on Iggy Pop’s 1980 album, Soldier.
Along with these stellar moments, he additionally carried out on punk legends The Damned’s 1994 file Not of This Earth and in supergroups boasting the likes of Clem Burke, Mick Jones, and Earl Slick. He even supplied up his bass-playing ability to the reunion of British rock heroes Faces, indicating simply how properly regarded he’s inside the trade.
His former Intercourse Pistols bandmates have been conscious about what he dropped at the band, and duly, he has been re-invited to the fold at each one among their reunions, together with the long-lasting 1996 ‘Filthy Lucre’ tour.
An actual appreciator of music, this was one level that all the time precipitated tensions between Matlock and the remainder of the Intercourse Pistols. Their notorious supervisor Malcolm McClaren even despatched a telegraph to the NME claiming that he was “thrown out…as a result of he went on too lengthy about Paul McCartney….The Beatles was an excessive amount of.” Matlock contests this, sustaining that he left by “mutual settlement” as a result of he was “sick of all of the bullshit”.
Nonetheless, now that he’s free from the confines of Intercourse Pistols, Matlock has been capable of talk about every kind of music with out worry of retribution from his ‘punk’ counterparts. While talking to NME for his or her ‘Soundtrack of My Life’ column in 2021, he revealed his love for The Kinks and mentioned how they outline his hometown, London.
Matlock defined that the primary track he fell in love with was The Kinks’ groundbreaking 1964 hit ‘You Actually Obtained Me’, earlier than taking a visit down reminiscence lane and discussing his childhood.
Matlock stated: “I keep in mind shopping for it out of my very own pocket cash from a washer store in Harlesden, northwest London. There wasn’t a file store however you used to have the ability to go and purchase the ‘Prime Twenty’, that they had little pegboard cubicles with the numbers of the chart positions in; in the meantime the mums and dads have been queueing as much as pay for the rental of their TV or radio that week. Occasions have been totally different again then.”
He then disclosed that it’s a Kinks track that reminds him of dwelling, and unsurprisingly it’s the quintessential ode to London, ‘Waterloo Sundown’. Ostensibly a tour de drive in songwriting, courtesy of Kinks frontman Ray Davies, ‘Waterloo Sundown’ will lengthy be hailed as one of many final love letters to the capital of England.
The previous Intercourse Pistol expressed: “It’s a track about London and the cherry on the cake of Ray Davies’ incredible songwriting prowess. The place I stay, once in a while I see Terence Stamp strolling down the road, who’s supposedly the Terry within the ‘Terry and Julie…’ lyrics, loosely. I used to be on the Bakerloo Line getting on a prepare as soon as and there was Terence Stamp, however he appeared like a hippy with shorts and Jesus sandals on. He sat down close to me and no one stated something. When he received off early, [another commuter] requested me, ‘Who was that?!’ and I stated, ‘You don’t know who that’s? That’s Superman’s dad!’”
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