But, we’d never done that…we hadn’t played those songs for twenty years. Glen: Most bands, if they have any degree of success, the gig for twenty years and sort of knock the stuff about on the tour…and everybody gets fed up. Everybody was keen for doing something, but well at that stage we didn’t know.Į.C.: Did you enjoy the tour, or did it ring hollow? And Steve said, “well lets call up Paul”. It was kind of just…I was the missing link in getting the band together again. I hadn’t seen John for years and I thought we’d end up having a fight, but we didn’t in the end. So, I called him up and he said, “yeah, lets get together and let’s go and see John”. And I thought, ‘we’ll, I’ll check him out”. Glen: I was in the states with a friend of mine and I hadn’t spoken to Steve Jones for like 15 years at that stage. It’s a drag that when your writing a certain way that you haven’t got the same people playing on it – but, it can’t always work out that way, you know?Į.C.: How did the FILTHY LUCRE tour come about? Because the whole things with ‘bands’ is chemistry, all the people being right, the way you play together regardless of whether we get on or not. While we all think it was great at the time and we’re proud of the music we did, we’d like to move on really. I think that held for everybody in the band really. Yeah…it is a bit of an albatross because people expect just one kind of thing from you, when you’ve got lots of kinds of music in you. Its good to be famous for something, I suppose (laughs)… for something 25 years ago. Glen: No, it’s a double-edged sword, really. And Glen addressed those recent rumours.Į.C.: In your 1990 book, "I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol" you said that the Sex Pistols was your "albatross". I interviewed Glen via trans-Atlantic phone (since EAR CANDY has NO budget, Glen graciously called US!) and we discussed the past, present and future of punk and if his perspective had changed. Unfortunately, the Pistols management decided to go the route of image over substance and you can see the result once Sid joined the band. Sex Pistols bassist, Glen Matlock did both. And, Sid didn't write ANY of the band's best songs. Hell, Sid couldn't even play his own bass. Especially if that "legend" was as incompetent as Sid Vicious was to the Sex Pistols. It's hard to live in the shadow of a so-called legend. Interview with Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols
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