PIL - Who remembers this ?

nicensleazy
nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
edited June 2009 in The bottom bracket
Never was a great fan of John / PIL, but this was superb...at his very best!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylOCIP54PIQ

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  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    PiL were brilliant - Metal Box / Second Edition is probably Lydon's finest hour. Instead of buggering about with Sex Pistols reunions (not to mention butter adverts) he should try getting this bunch back together. Great stuff.
  • mmitchell88
    mmitchell88 Posts: 340
    I didn't get into PiL until I went through my muso phase, and discovered who actually got involved in recording Album. Nice link - this should really be included on the next 'Big Night In'!
    Making a cup of coffee is like making love to a beautiful woman. It's got to be hot. You've got to take your time. You've got to stir... gently and firmly. You've got to grind your beans until they squeak.
    And then you put in the milk.
  • nicensleazy
    nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
    CHRISNOIR wrote:
    PiL were brilliant - Metal Box / Second Edition is probably Lydon's finest hour. Instead of buggering about with Sex Pistols reunions (not to mention butter adverts) he should try getting this bunch back together. Great stuff.


    I agree.....PIL was far better. But of course, John is now milking the cash cow with reforming the Pistols. No new stuff, just flogging the past for all its worth!
  • guinea
    guinea Posts: 1,177
    PIL - Rise.

    Epic.
  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    guinea wrote:
    PIL - Rise.

    Epic.
    Oddly enough that's just been on 6Music. Spooky, eh?
  • stevoracer
    stevoracer Posts: 8
    Bikes & PIL on one forum......great!

    Metal Box is one of the greatest abums of all time, nothing like it before or since - a work of genius from the whole band - not just Lydon. Poptones on the Old Grey Whistle Test still gives me goosebumps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnBq98uU ... re=related

    Let's hope a PIL reform doesn't happen, you can't recreate the past
  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    Whatever happened to Keith Levene? Genius guitarist. Love those great big scratchy slabs of guitar.
  • nicensleazy
    nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
    Did you know, Keth done a short spell with the Clash in the early days and wrote or part wrote - whats my name
  • Rev\'d Gatlin
    Rev\'d Gatlin Posts: 190
    I saw PIL at Leeds University on a Friday night, the tour with the Public Urinal set. On the Saturday night ZZ Top played. Eliminator went massive inbetween the band being booked and the tour. I think it made the national news that ZZ Top were playing a college gig. I don't think there were any other venues in Leeds at the time. PIL were good but ZZ Top were excellent. I wasn't a fan before but I was when I came out. When the suns out and the sunglasses are on and I've got some motorway miles to do, Deguello still gets loaded into the multi-changer.
    If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
  • mmitchell88
    mmitchell88 Posts: 340
    Rev\'d Gatlin wrote:
    I saw PIL at Leeds University

    [Hijack]
    Ah, gigs at the refectory! Jane's Addiction (yes, again) best gig for me, and Level 42 the, er, second best.
    [/Hijack]
    Making a cup of coffee is like making love to a beautiful woman. It's got to be hot. You've got to take your time. You've got to stir... gently and firmly. You've got to grind your beans until they squeak.
    And then you put in the milk.
  • stevoracer
    stevoracer Posts: 8
    Whatever happened to Keith Levene? Genius guitarist. Love those great big scratchy slabs of guitar.

    Looked at this recently, not a lot really http://www.fodderstompf.com/MEMBERS/levene.html
    [/quote]
  • nicensleazy
    nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
    Good link

    I always thought Jah Wooble was a good bass player, there was talk of him and Lydon getting back together

    However, the best bass player of that period has got to be.....Jean Jacques Burnel
  • stevoracer
    stevoracer Posts: 8
    well with a name like nicensleazy, what else whould you say....JJ was great, great style, but he's not Wobble
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    PiL - seriously underrated for years and one of my favourite bands in the 80s.

    Their stuff still sands up and they're just beginning to get wider recongition they deserve i reckon
  • nicensleazy
    nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
    stevoracer wrote:
    well with a name like nicensleazy, what else whould you say....JJ was great, great style, but he's not Wobble


    Nah....JJ is still the greatest!!!!!!
  • antooony
    antooony Posts: 177
    Ah one of the thousands of 7" records I have and one that I do still play. Great tune.

    oh and JJ on the bass....easily the greatest as is Mr Greenfield on the old keyboards.
  • wiffachip
    wiffachip Posts: 861
    aye, good newspaper style sleeve for the single

    and there was only one bass player at the time for me, Gaye Advert

    loving your threads this week Sleazy, and I don't mean your tartan bondage pants
  • nicensleazy
    nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
    wiffachip wrote:
    aye, good newspaper style sleeve for the single

    and there was only one bass player at the time for me, Gaye Advert

    loving your threads this week Sleazy, and I don't mean your tartan bondage pants



    :lol::lol:
  • Cunobelin
    Cunobelin Posts: 11,792
    Fodderstomf always reminds me of late nights with the late John Peel on the radio and a few pints of beer
    <b><i>He that buys land buys many stones.
    He that buys flesh buys many bones.
    He that buys eggs buys many shells,
    But he that buys good beer buys nothing else.</b></i>
    (Unattributed Trad.)
  • nicensleazy
    nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
    Nice interview with JJ from the Stranglers


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKEPJvx8W3o
  • nicensleazy
    nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
    Cunobelin wrote:
    Fodderstomf always reminds me of late nights with the late John Peel on the radio and a few pints of beer


    God this brings back memories........thanks for the reminder!

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