Though I must say that I never let the music get away."Īfter Rich Kids called it a day in early 1979, New backed Sid Vicious and Johnny Thunders and nearly became a junkie casualty like them.
I come from a pretty dysfunctional family, so I was heading down that road regardless. I was so young then, I just wanted to get fucked up. I remember just thinking, 'Fucking hell, you're with the crème de la crème here'. There's me stood there in the toilet cubicle, age 17, with all four of them doing lines of coke. Iggy was there, Steve Marriott turned up. "Ronson played with us, with Ian McLagan on keyboards. Sporting a red beret, wearing frilly blouses and playing blistering guitar fills, New proved a great foil to both Matlock and Ure, even if gobbing audiences didn't always know what to make of the band whose repertoire included the Pistols' "Pretty Vacant" and the Small Faces' "Here Comes the Nice" as well as "Put You in the Picture" from Ure's days with PVC2, the short-lived, punked-up Slik. Matlock certainly remembered New's prowess when he began assembling Rich Kids, and the pair co-wrote much of the new group's catchiest material, in particular the B-side "Empty Words", "Ghosts of Princes in Towers" and the album opener, "Strange One". In the mid-'70s he fell in with the emerging London punk scene and, "for about 15 minutes and a few rehearsals", in order to placate drummer Paul Cook, was in the Sex Pistols alongside guitarist Steve Jones.
But "this flash 15-year-old guitarist who wouldn't get his hair cut", as Matlock described him to the New Musical Express, also loved avant-garde composers like Edgar Varèse, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Frank Zappa, the jazz of Miles Davis and Duke Ellington, the glam-rock of Bowie and T Rex, as well as West Coast American bands such as The Doors and Love. Musically gifted and precocious, he started playing with the London Jazz Orchestra in 1974.
On record I’m a long way from that.In January this year he reunited with Rich Kids at the Islington Academy in London for a benefit concert which proved to be an emotional occasion and his farewell appearance.īorn in London in 1960, he attended Quintin Kynaston School in St John's Wood. In my live show I do a bit of everything to keep everybody including myself happy. I didn’t set out to write a Sex Pistols album and fail miserably. It’s quite personal, but there are some tongue-in-cheek funny bits in it. Original Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock, whose 45-year career includes a wealth of experience with countless other bands and artists, will release his solo album Good To Go on Mighty Village Records.The project was recorded in London and New York, and features his longtime friends and collaborators Earl Slick, best known for his work with David Bowie, and Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats.Matlock was only 16 when he joined the Pistols, and co-wrote such iconic punk songs of theirs as Pretty Vacant,Anarchy In The UK and ‘God Save The Queen. By the release of their seminal Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols album.Matlock went on to work with an extraordinary array of musicians including Iggy Pop, the Dammed, Primal Scream, Mick Jones, Midge Ure, Gary Kemp, Ronnie Wood and such punkn contemporaries as Rusty Egan, Mike Peters, Tom Robinson and Kirk Brandon. When it comes to music, I like some actual music in the music!” says Matlock of the album.
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