What's that you say, Pilgrim??? Can't believe yer eyes that the fella on the right and left respectively of the two pics below is the REAL John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols fame????
Well, believe it, mate, 'cos it's true!!!!
Now, how did Yours Truly, who almost never leaves his cats and the comforts of his cave, manage to get, not just one, but TWO pics of a couple of friends of his with one of the seminal popular music figures of the late twentieth century???
Well, Bunky, it's kinda like this; on or around 11th February of this year, I got a call from my friend, Stan "OJ" Armstrong(the fella on the left in the first pic), who teaches over at CCSN and UNLV as an instructor, and is also a local documentary film-maker, who specialises in makin' docs 'bout the Civil War, sayin' that he was gonna be interviewed by the Sex Pistols(it later turned out to be just Lydon), for a tv documentary that Lydon and company were makin' in a few days, and would I be interested in meetin' 'em.
"Sure", I sez, even though I don't know that much about the group, and only became a punk fan in my mid-twenties, which is startin' out pretty late in life for that sort of thing.
Two days later, I get another call from OJ, tellin' me that they were gonna be at his place 'round 6:00 in da Pee Em, or so.
Well, at first, I was gonna take the bus down there, but then I decided to give my friend Joe Tangredi(the fella on the right in the second pic), who knows both of us pretty well, and told 'im about it, askin' 'im if he could gimme a ride down there, to which he replied "Sure".
Hey, 't'ain't every day one gets to meet one of the people who changed Rock 'N' Roll from what it'd become in the mid-1970s, so gettin' to meet 'im was a pretty decent incentive for Joe to give me a ride over there, no???
Anyway, we got there a little after 6:00, while they were in mid-interview, and tried to stay as quiet as meeces when a cat's nearby(something about which Mr. Lydon joked a bit at one point durin' the interview).
Anyhoo, eventually got to talk a bit with 'im about this and that, an' the other, too, and generally had a good time with Lydon and the crew.
It was also during this process that I dragged out my camera and got these shots of Lydon, who was also in town to judge a Battle of the Bands contest then goin' on, as well as doin' the interview with OJ about African-American participation in the Confederate war effort(the reason they were interviewin' 'im).
Joe got a few of OJ, and one of me with Lydon, and OJ in turn(natch)got some of Joe and Lydon as well, I think.
You might say that it was the kind of picture-takin' orgy that inevitably ensues when obscure people, or relatively obscure ones, meet famous folk, and you'd be right on the money, I think.
Now, I gotta go send these pics to OJ and Joe, as well as Mr. Lydon,at www.johnnyrotten.com
'cos I'm more than a bit overdue to in doin' that.
Hope you like the pics, Folks!!!!
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