Chords for The Damned - Smash it Up (Rare Footage)

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Most _ [G] of the energy seems involved the cameraman and the audience there, but we saw Glenn Matlock on bass guitar
Glenn what it what is your answer to what has been said by Jonathan about?
Manufactured well, I agree with naughty totally about what Jonathan had to say
But I also agree with Bob here because to me the 70s can be split into two separate groups really
there was up to like the mid 70s with all the glam thing and
then the punk thing came along and
We was just trying to get a lot of back to the 50s almost thing that they the freshness and the energy of rock-and-roll
Without all the crap that went with it.
Oh, but come on Glenn.
It wasn't you you were puppets
Malcolm put the sex pistols together.
It was great music brilliant records terrific display on stage
But you were just playing the part no, but you know that if you're gonna have to sell something you got something good
We had the real bare basics there that was something that could really be believed in and I think that's today
By bands like the grunge bands and all that just cite the sex pistols and all the [N] punk thing as major influences on
It was great record.
It was a marvelous time, but my
Were people who are now just about reaching
_ Well possibly so but I think what we did it actually is young kids who are quite astute
We realized that these people could help us in our quest and put an hour for music in front of the library _ _ _
_ _ But _ [C] _ it was the people from the 60s who are behind it
Was beyond the Beatles they would have never broken through with that Epstein
Yeah, but at least he was a 60s person
I mean the people behind the 60s band were 60s [N] people not all of them now Chris Miller.
I met you
In your personas ratscabies, of course of the dam then we have a nice cup of tea as I recall
[E] You're busy still but what was the reason that there were?
For these sort of repulsiveness of what you did and all the spitting and all that
Is that part of youthful expression and fun?
Well, I don't know about you know why people did it
But I do know that the one thing that was important about it was the fact that any of the current stars were around
The people that were regarded as highly [G] talented musically which were like Emerson like and Palmer
Yes, Genesis those [Gm] kind of guys you weren't allowed to go and spit them shout them and what's more you couldn't stand next to him
at the bar before a show
these guys they can all talk about [G#] their great life and Jonathan King and the Archie's [Gm] and Johnny reggae and
Slade or mother any of those guys, but the real thing none of that was mine
That was the previous generations and when it came to like being in the dam and being like in a band
That was like my generation speaking.
That was my own voice
I didn't need to practice in a bedroom for 15 years to go and play in a pub full of people
And that was kind of what we were [G] about
There was of course one particular incident involving the sex pistols that really grabbed the headlines afterwards.
Their name was on everyone's lips
Now I want to know one thing
Are you serious?
Are you just making it trying to make me laugh?
Really?
Yeah, no, but I mean about what you're doing.
Oh, yeah, you are serious _ _
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Wonderful people are they yes, they really turn us on but they do well suppose they turn other people on
_ It's what nothing a rude word next question no, no, what was the rude word shit
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And that was followed as history show by even ruder words
The headlines were extraordinary the sex pistols are sent packing said the Daily Mirror
The Sun call it a filthy show and Bill Grunty said I did it to show they are just foul-mouthed
Yobs, so now Glenn was it a deliberate setup?
Not at all
And we was rehearsing to do this thing called the anarchy [N] tour
And as I understand it we only got the show at the very last minute because Queen had pulled out
We didn't even want to do it actually because there was this limo outside and we thought well
We shouldn't really be seen in this big Daimler.
So he wasn't gonna do it
But Malcolm turned around and said well if you don't do it, you don't get you wages this week
So he was in the car like a shot _
It took us about five minutes to go from the front door into the thing and we was recording straight away
So there was no way it was set up whatsoever at all.
And as you can see from that clip that um, Bill
Manufactured the whole thing really I think the whole thing with John
Just backing up what he said was that it was a [Gm] no-nonsense approach and he wouldn't be pandered to or
I don't know quite what the right word is but made to look stupid in front of somebody the older generation
He just backed himself up and that's what kids like they could identify with that.
They didn't want all the crap
They didn't want all the stardom and all the glitz and all the glitter the glam rock thing was fun
But that was a few years previous and now they wanted something new.
There was a different climate in England
And kids wanted to pick up on what we were doing.
We we didn't sort of manufacture this whole thing
We found that as soon as we started playing there was a whole
Coterie and a crowd of people who were really looking for change in music scene and they just gravitated towards [A#] us
I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this but Jonathan are you prepared to concede any of these points?
Oh, my point is the same.
I thought punk was a marvelous time and lots of great music
Was it manufactured or was it natural?
I thought it was manufactured.
They say it's natural fair enough.
We agreed to differ Thank you well
music is always the strongest way of recalling any period and as our studio could well do with a bit of
Refurbishing I'm going to do the decent thing and ask the damned just for old times sake to smash it up from the 70s.
Goodbye
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