GLEN MATLOCK & THE PHILISTINES
''BORN RUNNING''
SEPTEMBER 28 2010
45:50
1. Born Running/3:52
2. Get What We Get/3:38
3. T.R.O.U.B.L.E./3:20
4. Nowheresville/3:53
5. Rock Chick/3:55
6. Timebomb/4:07
7. Hard Work/3:39
8. Something Tells Me/3:46
9. Electricity/3:48
10. Yeah Right!/3:42
11. Way To Go/3:58
12. Somewhere Somehow/4:12
Terry Edwards /Piano
Tracie Hunter /Vocals (Background)
Jim Lowe /Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Producer, Vocals (Background)
Glen Matlock /Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Steve New /Guitar
Maggi Ronson /Vocals (Background)
James Stevenson /Guitar
Jon Tiven /Guitar
Javier Weyler /Drums, Percussion
REVIEW
by Rick Anderson
Glen Matlock, as everyone knows, was the original bass player for the Sex Pistols. Legend has it that the notorious punk impresario Malcolm McLaren orchestrated Matlock's ouster in favor of the much-more-punk Sid Vicious, who couldn't play a note but had the right look (dumb, damaged, drugged-up). Matlock himself is on the record as saying that he left the band in disgust but under his own steam. Ultimately, both stories probably have a certain amount of truth to them. What Matlock's subsequent career arc suggests is that the Pistols did indeed lose a major talent, and also that from a pure marketing perspective, Sid may have been the better choice. While Sid flamed out in a frenzy of homicidal self-destruction that helped secure the Pistols a permanent place in the rock & roll history books, and made McLaren a rich man, Matlock went on to work with a string of highly competent but not world-shakingly popular bands (punk supergroup the Rich Kids, the Damned, Robert Gordon), and to pursue a solo career that has garnered him lots of respect but not a ton of renown. Born Running may just change that. Is it punk? Not really. But it sure does reek of defiance, and it sure does blow by like a two-ton pickup driving way too fast on a gravel road, and the hooks are indelible: just try not to pump your fist to "Timebomb" or "Hard Work," or the euphorically powerful "Way to Go." Matlock's voice is perfect: plainspoken but just tuneful enough; it sounds like that of a less-adenoidal and less-splenetic Graham Parker. The band (which includes former Rich Kids guitarist Steve New, who died of cancer shortly after the Born Running sessions finished) is professional in absolutely the best sense of the term. Few musicians from the punk era have been more successful at making the question "Is it punk?" irrelevant than Glen Matlock, and this album is a genuine triumph, of hard work, passion, and talent over mere marketing and media manipulation.
BIOGRAPHY
by Steve Huey
There are numerous stories and myths about why original Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock was fired and replaced by Sid Vicious. It isn't true that Matlock was kicked out for liking the Beatles; in fact, he was even more enamored of the Faces and the mod groups prominently featured on London pirate radio in the late '60s, as were Steve Jones and Paul Cook. It is true that Matlock had the strongest melodic sensibility of anyone in the group and regardless of personality conflicts, he was an invaluable part of the Pistols' songwriting chemistry.
A former art school student, Matlock had originally joined up with Jones and Cook in 1972; even though he left the group in 1977 before their debut album was completed, he was still rehired to complete the majority of the album's bass tracks. Upon his exit, Matlock formed a punk-pop unit called the Rich Kids, which also featured future Ultravox singer Midge Ure; they released one album in 1978, Ghosts of Princes in Towers (which produced an overlooked classic in the title track), before breaking up. Matlock played with Sid Vicious and joined Iggy Pop's band shortly thereafter, touring with Pop in 1979 and appearing on the following year's Soldier album. Over the next few years, Matlock played with a variety of bands, including the Spectres (with Danny Kustow, ex-Tom Robinson Band), the London Cowboys (appearing on their 1984 album Tall in the Saddle), and Johnny Thunders (from about 1985-1987). In 1990, Matlock published his autobiography, I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol, and subsequently worked in the Role Models with ex-members of Public Image Ltd. In 1995, he played with a Faces-style rock & roll band called the Philistines, which also featured singer Gerry Foster, guitarist Paul O'Brien, and drummer Paul Simon (and had initially included ex-PiL guitarist Keith Levene); that year they released an album, called Hard Work, on Peppermint Records.
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''BORN RUNNING''
SEPTEMBER 28 2010
45:50
1. Born Running/3:52
2. Get What We Get/3:38
3. T.R.O.U.B.L.E./3:20
4. Nowheresville/3:53
5. Rock Chick/3:55
6. Timebomb/4:07
7. Hard Work/3:39
8. Something Tells Me/3:46
9. Electricity/3:48
10. Yeah Right!/3:42
11. Way To Go/3:58
12. Somewhere Somehow/4:12
Terry Edwards /Piano
Tracie Hunter /Vocals (Background)
Jim Lowe /Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Producer, Vocals (Background)
Glen Matlock /Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Steve New /Guitar
Maggi Ronson /Vocals (Background)
James Stevenson /Guitar
Jon Tiven /Guitar
Javier Weyler /Drums, Percussion
REVIEW
by Rick Anderson
Glen Matlock, as everyone knows, was the original bass player for the Sex Pistols. Legend has it that the notorious punk impresario Malcolm McLaren orchestrated Matlock's ouster in favor of the much-more-punk Sid Vicious, who couldn't play a note but had the right look (dumb, damaged, drugged-up). Matlock himself is on the record as saying that he left the band in disgust but under his own steam. Ultimately, both stories probably have a certain amount of truth to them. What Matlock's subsequent career arc suggests is that the Pistols did indeed lose a major talent, and also that from a pure marketing perspective, Sid may have been the better choice. While Sid flamed out in a frenzy of homicidal self-destruction that helped secure the Pistols a permanent place in the rock & roll history books, and made McLaren a rich man, Matlock went on to work with a string of highly competent but not world-shakingly popular bands (punk supergroup the Rich Kids, the Damned, Robert Gordon), and to pursue a solo career that has garnered him lots of respect but not a ton of renown. Born Running may just change that. Is it punk? Not really. But it sure does reek of defiance, and it sure does blow by like a two-ton pickup driving way too fast on a gravel road, and the hooks are indelible: just try not to pump your fist to "Timebomb" or "Hard Work," or the euphorically powerful "Way to Go." Matlock's voice is perfect: plainspoken but just tuneful enough; it sounds like that of a less-adenoidal and less-splenetic Graham Parker. The band (which includes former Rich Kids guitarist Steve New, who died of cancer shortly after the Born Running sessions finished) is professional in absolutely the best sense of the term. Few musicians from the punk era have been more successful at making the question "Is it punk?" irrelevant than Glen Matlock, and this album is a genuine triumph, of hard work, passion, and talent over mere marketing and media manipulation.
BIOGRAPHY
by Steve Huey
There are numerous stories and myths about why original Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock was fired and replaced by Sid Vicious. It isn't true that Matlock was kicked out for liking the Beatles; in fact, he was even more enamored of the Faces and the mod groups prominently featured on London pirate radio in the late '60s, as were Steve Jones and Paul Cook. It is true that Matlock had the strongest melodic sensibility of anyone in the group and regardless of personality conflicts, he was an invaluable part of the Pistols' songwriting chemistry.
A former art school student, Matlock had originally joined up with Jones and Cook in 1972; even though he left the group in 1977 before their debut album was completed, he was still rehired to complete the majority of the album's bass tracks. Upon his exit, Matlock formed a punk-pop unit called the Rich Kids, which also featured future Ultravox singer Midge Ure; they released one album in 1978, Ghosts of Princes in Towers (which produced an overlooked classic in the title track), before breaking up. Matlock played with Sid Vicious and joined Iggy Pop's band shortly thereafter, touring with Pop in 1979 and appearing on the following year's Soldier album. Over the next few years, Matlock played with a variety of bands, including the Spectres (with Danny Kustow, ex-Tom Robinson Band), the London Cowboys (appearing on their 1984 album Tall in the Saddle), and Johnny Thunders (from about 1985-1987). In 1990, Matlock published his autobiography, I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol, and subsequently worked in the Role Models with ex-members of Public Image Ltd. In 1995, he played with a Faces-style rock & roll band called the Philistines, which also featured singer Gerry Foster, guitarist Paul O'Brien, and drummer Paul Simon (and had initially included ex-PiL guitarist Keith Levene); that year they released an album, called Hard Work, on Peppermint Records.
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