Who Killed Bambi?

[Kara Zor El]

I was and still am a big Pistols fan. Nevermind the Bollocks is a classic. I know a lot of posters here hate it but it's considered a classic, whether you like it or not but what about The Great Rock n Roll Swindle? Obviously not a classic but for a huge Sex pistols fan, there wasn't#t much else besides Some Product, which was full of interviews, The Singles, including the Pistols Pack, The Mini Album and some live stuff.

So I was into the Swindle, it Had early demos of Johnny Be Good, and Stepping Stone, with funny interplay from Johnny.

Three great Sid covers, the pinnacle being My Way, which I still think is a great record. Sid doing his best and only Rotten impression.

I love the title track with the auditioning front men. "People said we couldn't play, they called us foul mouthed yobs but the only notes that really count are the ones that come in wads." Love it.

Comedy songs with the audition winner Tenpole Tudor belting out, Who Killed Bambi, and Rock around the Clock and Steve Jones drunken drawl on friggin in the Riggin. I still know all the words.

Raw early version of Anarchy in the UK.

Ronnie Biggs.

And frustratingly for me Paul Cook on lead vocals for Silly Thing instead of Jones who did lead vocals on the single and the single is the better version. My single is so scratched it won't play, so I'm stuck with Paul. The Black Arabs bit is shit of course and yet I still played it through.

I was in love with Sue Catwoman from the movie, I was only a kid myself. I wonder what she looks like now?

I expect a lot of you hate this Cash for Chaos album I'm just interested if any others out there have an affection for it like me.

[rick]

Actually I really rather enjoy The Great Rock n Roll Swindle even if it is much more Mclaren's vision of the Pistols then anything else.

Most of the music is actually very good, although of course like everyone else, I found my skin crawling when the Black Arabs were on, but I do have a real love for the French street musician and his version of Anarchy.

Did you know that one of the people trying out for lead singer for the Pistols on the song The Great Rock n Roll Swindle is none other then Irish actor and one time Star Trek star, Colm Meany?

He’s the one who sings the line, ” Thank you kindly A & M. They said we were out of bounds. But that ain't bad for two weeks work. And 75,000 pounds”.

The one real drawback to the album though is Malcom’s would be replacement for Lydon, Ten Pole Tudor.

Not the Tudor is terrible, after all, Who Killed Bambi isn’t all that bad a song, it’s just that once you see him onstage with the rest of the band at the end of the Swindle number, even though he is talented, he just never even approaches the energy and power of John Lydon.

Still the Sid covers of those old Gene Vincent numbers just rocked. Plus who doesn’t like those brief Yoko like shots of Nancy?

On top of that there’s Sid doing his classic version of My Way, proving once and for all that Billy Idol owes more to Vicious then he would ever admit, and all of that really amazing Steve Jones guitar work.

I could sit and listen to Jones play guitar all day, he is one of the great players of the Rock era and is really underestimated, mostly I think because Malcolm pushed the idea so hard that the band actually wasn’t any good.

But what can one expect from Mclaren who after all is probably the worst manager in music history?

What else is there to say about a man who fired Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols and Adam Ant from Adam & the Ants?

[ultramandingo]

.........if only russ meyers got to finish "The Great Rock n Roll Swindle " . sting and his pals trying to rape paul cook is just about the only thing sting ever did that i like

[rick]

.........if only russ meyers got to finish "The Great Rock n Roll Swindle " . sting and his pals trying to rape paul cook is just about the only thing sting ever did that i like

Ah Sting.

It's so hard to believe that dull, lite jazz singer at one point was recording amazingly subversive albums and showing up in films like Swindle (on the cutting room floloor at least) and Brimstone.

[ultramandingo]

.......dont ferget his bellboy in "Quadraphenia" - he shoulda quit before mtv went on air

[Spike-X]

I was in love with Sue Catwoman from the movie, I was only a kid myself. I wonder what she looks like now?


From Wikipedia:

"Catwoman appeared in a number of punk rock documentaries, including The Filth and the Fury. However, a very young actress named Judy Croll was chosen to portray her in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle when she declined to appear in the film.

She now has two children. She is believed to now reside in Twickenham west London with her family and pets."

[Kara Zor El]

From Wikipedia:

"Catwoman appeared in a number of punk rock documentaries, including The Filth and the Fury. However, a very young actress named Judy Croll was chosen to portray her in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle when she declined to appear in the film.

She now has two children. She is believed to now reside in Twickenham west London with her family and pets."

Thanks. I've seen and own Filth and the Fury. So I must have seen her in it but forgot. My short term memory is really messed up these days. Excess of youth catching up with me.

I never new that wasn't actually the real Soo Catwoman in the movie.

[king mob]

.........if only russ meyers got to finish "The Great Rock n Roll Swindle " . sting and his pals trying to rape paul cook is just about the only thing sting ever did that i like


Russ Meyer was making 'Who Killed Bambi?',(with a script by McLaren and Roger Ebert) not the 'Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle', that was Julien Temple whose Joe Strummer documentary is worth searching out.