Really great interview. Never listened to Glen speak in a full interview before. Very enlightening. Also it was great to have an interviewer who just let the person speak. Great job!
I’d been a 14/15 year old in 1977/78 and really into Punk. Ten years I qualified as a Dentist at Guy’s Hospital in 1987 and worked there for the first 6 months of my career. We used to run an emergency dental service on a Saturday morning and you were there totally on your own, so I was nervous as hell. About my third ever patient was a certain Mr Glen Matlock, who had toothache! Can you imagine? Newly qualified and treating one of my Punk heroes! Despite obviously being in pain, he was a lovely gent.
Gosh what a fantastic interview!!! I always believe that Glen was the musical brains behind The Sex Pistols. Once he departed the quality of their music capitulated. Also great to see Steve Blame who presented MTV in the early 90s and lived in Stamford Hill around that time.
Yes it is really nice. Places like Springfield Park and the River Lee. Also surrounding areas like Stoke Newington and Finsbury Park (where Glen and the Pistols played a reunion concert in 1996).
@@garyrigby21 Great to see you here Gary. I know you from Billy Moore’s channel. We are a similar age and no doubt listened to a lot of the same music. I’m not from Liverpool, but listen to Frankie goes to Hollywood and the lightening seeds when I’m driving. Some music is timeless. I can’t imagine listening to the sex pistols tho’. 😃😆😛
Ive got a huge sex pistols collection 250 items, bootlegs, demos, sound checks,,videos,books,cds, blurays,lots more met glen,and john lydon, they are very amazing angst, rebels with a articulate point of view and talent, wil check out if they played erics liverpool kind regards.
My dad's local was the "Lode Star" at Ribchester, Lancs, he virtually lived there, it was in the middle of nowhere because of the noise it made. Lots of big up and coming bands played there. For some reason or another he didn't go in on the Saturday night that the Sex Pistols played there!
@@popthehistorymakers Believe me, he sat with Bob Geldof drinking all night. The first UK gig the Boomtown Rats played was there, Bob mentions it in his Autobiography (Not talking to my dad by the way). Everytime he comes on telly my dad say "My mate Bob"
Nice to see Glen getting some recognition, nice guy, intelligent, interesting and funny, complete opposite of how John used to describe him. Glad he's got the last laugh now, what with Blonde and the Sex Pistols with Frank Carter, looking forward to seeing them next year. Good on ya Glen, top bloke
The Pistols really did sow the seeds of their own demise after they pushed Glen out, didn't they? Without him writing the songs, it was a slow slide into oblivion.
@popthehistorymakers It would be cool to see a rare interview with BP Fallon on this channel, because BP has made rare TV and public appearances in the last year.
If the band hadn’t forced Glen out I think they would’ve been together longer, they wasn’t the same after Glen left so to be honest they cut their own throats.
After seeing his comments about politics at the end I can see exactly why they kicked him out! I always thought he seemed a nice; laid back guy. But if he thinks we're gonna listen to him lecture us about jetting off to Ibiza and Athens while we're struggling here then he's as much an "a***hole" as Lydon said he was!
Always loved glen, definitely one of the best members, Along with my Hammersmith two,only cos I come from there,Dint get me wrong but always thought john was a bit over the top,i like him but sometimes i cringe ❤🇬🇧🇮🇪
@@alipanez1973 True. I guess a lot of musicians did. Remember M - Pop Muzik, Robin Scott - he did that as well, influenced him. Nothing like a bit of traveling to widen your perspectives, and busking I think must force you to meet people.
Absolutely nothing wrong with Glen's playing. From what I've read they just wanted something a bit more dirty and aggressive from the bass and Steve gave then that with his sound on the album. Listen to Glen on this Pretty Vacant backing track demo, He is GREAT and the sound is FANTASTIC th-cam.com/video/NylTwfJYV74/w-d-xo.html
Steve Jones said that if Glen hadn't have been pushed out or however you want to say it & brought Sid in, & if they hadn't have done the Bill Grundy show then they probably would've gone on to do a lot more. And that for me just about sums it up. The Clash went on to make 5 fantastic albums & I think the Pistols probably could've done the same. Bit of a shame really.
My bass was reality. The reality I created for myself. School wasn't reality, neither was home; they were full of shit bollocks. My bass and my band were me making my own reality, my life. Still is.
Good guy. The Pistols still have a huge cultural resonance. Should have been way bigger but in 77 there was no MTV unlike in 91 when Nirvana hit. That said, the Bollocks will never age which was demonstrated by the instant sell out tour this year. John made a very stupid pointless and costly for him stand over the Boyle tv show. A very stubborn man.
Glen's a clever guy. He's owns many properties and is a legitimate business man. And a jolly good musician. I was watching some videos were he was playing with johnny thunders and johnny was scolding them all. I mean i love johnny thunders but he's telling Glen and John perry off lol. It was just funny gig to watch. Think it was at Dingwalls.
Glenn The WaY ThinGS Are GoinG You Need To PlaY Thor QPR... LoVe The GeeZer YeT Theres No MenTion Of The Group Who MainlY Helped The PiSTolS Career And ThaTS The TaViSTocK Group........
Glen'seems reasonable, mild mannered and pretty level-headed. Johnny Rotten would have clashed with Mother Teresa back in the day and would have had the pope using expletives. 😂😂😂
I would have a drink & talk with Glen,much rather then with Lydon. John is constantlly fighting against everything. His love for Trump is the last straw
BREXIT! ffs marvellous this geezer gets a bit a cash behind him then has no idea how cheap foreign labour from the eu smashed working mens lively hoods and businesses! NO IDEA!!!
@@jackstrop7520 he seemed upset he can’t travel Europe anymore. He should try being Australian and excitedly going to the mother country for the first time just for a look at where my ancestors came from, and they hold you up at customs for 1 hour asking you all sorts of questions like how much money you got (answer was not much, and they weren’t going to let me in), while people in full burqas are walking through unquestioned with their British passports. Shocked the hell out of me.
Glen's never had 100s of Polish bass players coming over and taking away his job from him has he! So he obviously doesn't get it -- being a rich musician is a luxury we don't all have!
@@jackstrop7520 Glen is absolutely correct instead, Brexit was a mistake and it certainly made the lives of working musicians worse, and not only musicians but entrepreneurs too!
brexit has created cowards who hid ithe shadows now thinking their racism is legitimised. its stopped freedom of movement and bankrupted thousands of companies
right. because you arent very good at whatever you do-it clearly bothers you that people get the best person for the job.. freedom of movement. you oppose that you wef clown
Glen is obviously an intelligent man and also hugely interesting to listen to.great interview.
@@jasoningamells5872 thx. He‘s a great guy
Really great interview. Never listened to Glen speak in a full interview before. Very enlightening. Also it was great to have an interviewer who just let the person speak. Great job!
Thx! And thanks for taking the time to comment!
I’d been a 14/15 year old in 1977/78 and really into Punk. Ten years I qualified as a Dentist at Guy’s Hospital in 1987 and worked there for the first 6 months of my career.
We used to run an emergency dental service on a Saturday morning and you were there totally on your own, so I was nervous as hell.
About my third ever patient was a certain Mr Glen Matlock, who had toothache! Can you imagine? Newly qualified and treating one of my Punk heroes!
Despite obviously being in pain, he was a lovely gent.
@@derin111 brillant Story. Thx for commenting
I briefly met Glen at the airport on the way to New York via Virgin Atlantic. Really nice chap!!
@@FLAVCO yes he definitely is
Gosh what a fantastic interview!!!
I always believe that Glen was the musical brains behind The Sex Pistols. Once he departed the quality of their music capitulated.
Also great to see Steve Blame who presented MTV in the early 90s and lived in Stamford Hill around that time.
@@damienabbott9805 thx and yes I did. Where did you live then?
I was raised in Stamford Hill in 70s and 80s.
@ 👍 loved it there.
Yes it is really nice. Places like Springfield Park and the River Lee.
Also surrounding areas like Stoke Newington and Finsbury Park (where Glen and the Pistols played a reunion concert in 1996).
@ I’d moved away by then. Glad you liked the interview. Glen was on good form!
Gail. Danke. Counterculture more important then ever never mind the shouts Thank you Sirs
@@4VJETC yes, Glen is a great guest!
His book "Triggers" is a fantastic read, the post Pistols bit is the most interesting!
Don't forget the Pistols played Eric's in Liverpool too which loads of bands sprung up from! December 1976 i think? i was slightly too young at age 14
@@garyrigby21 Great to see you here Gary. I know you from Billy Moore’s channel. We are a similar age and no doubt listened to a lot of the same music. I’m not from Liverpool, but listen to Frankie goes to Hollywood and the lightening seeds when I’m driving. Some music is timeless. I can’t imagine listening to the sex pistols tho’. 😃😆😛
@@mariadodds2042 hi Maria cheers! I grew up on Punk
Ive got a huge sex pistols collection 250 items, bootlegs, demos, sound checks,,videos,books,cds, blurays,lots more met glen,and john lydon, they are very amazing angst, rebels with a articulate point of view and talent, wil check out if they played erics liverpool kind regards.
Seen them live 6 times on comeback tours amazing.
Glen is a very smart guy,and an talented bass player.
Glenn’s an intelligent guy, comes across in this
Great to hear from Glen - the original Rich Kid! Thanks for uploading; liked it and subscribed.
@@markdoughty8780 thx!
My dad's local was the "Lode Star" at Ribchester, Lancs, he virtually lived there, it was in the middle of nowhere because of the noise it made. Lots of big up and coming bands played there. For some reason or another he didn't go in on the Saturday night that the Sex Pistols played there!
@@69waveydavey it would have been a good story to tell.
@@popthehistorymakers Believe me, he sat with Bob Geldof drinking all night. The first UK gig the Boomtown Rats played was there, Bob mentions it in his Autobiography (Not talking to my dad by the way). Everytime he comes on telly my dad say "My mate Bob"
@@69waveydavey good on your dad!
Nice to see Glen getting some recognition, nice guy, intelligent, interesting and funny, complete opposite of how John used to describe him. Glad he's got the last laugh now, what with Blonde and the Sex Pistols with Frank Carter, looking forward to seeing them next year. Good on ya Glen, top bloke
Steve Blame!!! How nice to see him again! Good memories here MTV!
@@TP42411 thx!
The Pistols really did sow the seeds of their own demise after they pushed Glen out, didn't they? Without him writing the songs, it was a slow slide into oblivion.
Yeah John Paul and Steve had nothing to do with the writing.
@@ethanblackhurst8593 Sarcastic reply. He’s right… Glen was the best musician in the band.
@@spaceengineer1452 Matlock hasn`t had a hit record since the 1970s lolol
@ Who cares ? No one except Lydon has… the lead singer gets fame. The rest don’t…Glen had the pop element to the songs. They were fkd after he left.
They became somewhat cartoon , Sid bought nothing to the group.
With evrything taken into account, what a great fckin life he;s had so far.
Nice interview. Very interesting. Matlock is a levelheaded & humorous chap.💚
@@keymeter1917 totally agree
Great interview and nice to see steve blame again i grew up watching him as a vj on mtv
@@clausm2203 thx Claus!
I loved the "Rock Follies"!!!
@@LarzGustafsson haha. I remember watching it, pure cheese but loved it
I have spoken to Glen Matlock multiple times on his Instagram account, he is quite a gentleman and I think he's great friends with BP Fallon.
@@markkenny2001 maybe BP Fallon worked with him or would know him from his punk
Publicist days. Anyhow thought Glen was just a great guy
@popthehistorymakers It would be cool to see a rare interview with BP Fallon on this channel, because BP has made rare TV and public appearances in the last year.
@ let me try!
If the band hadn’t forced Glen out I think they would’ve been together longer, they wasn’t the same after Glen left so to be honest they cut their own throats.
After seeing his comments about politics at the end I can see exactly why they kicked him out! I always thought he seemed a nice; laid back guy. But if he thinks we're gonna listen to him lecture us about jetting off to Ibiza and Athens while we're struggling here then he's as much an "a***hole" as Lydon said he was!
'the pistols were a kind of musical bouillabaisse!' funny to hear this, living in Marseille, bouillabaisse's city!
Surprised you didn’t talk more about the Frank Carter shows.
@@ALPQZM654 you’re right, should have. The focus of the show is the history makers and limited time, but that’s how it goes sometimes!!
"subdivide that into 'quaaludes'"!? 13:54
Anyone remember Split Enz or The Rezillo's or Elvis Costello or Steel Pulse playing at Eric's Liverpool in 77
I have a bootleg of Split Enz gig there
@@terrynolan609 How was that done back then ?? any chance of a copy 🙂
Always loved glen, definitely one of the best members, Along with my Hammersmith two,only cos I come from there,Dint get me wrong but always thought john was a bit over the top,i like him but sometimes i cringe ❤🇬🇧🇮🇪
Not just Rod Stewart, Charlie Harper too... toured South of France in late 60s, early 70s trying to survive
@@alipanez1973 True. I guess a lot of musicians did. Remember M - Pop Muzik, Robin Scott - he did that as well, influenced him. Nothing like a bit of traveling to widen your perspectives, and busking I think must force you to meet people.
Absolutely nothing wrong with Glen's playing. From what I've read they just wanted something a bit more dirty and aggressive from the bass and Steve gave then that with his sound on the album.
Listen to Glen on this Pretty Vacant backing track demo, He is GREAT and the sound is FANTASTIC
th-cam.com/video/NylTwfJYV74/w-d-xo.html
Played 4 gigs on the anarchy tour, ans with sid 13 gigs in the uk, with sid they played, denmark, sweden, holland usa most of the gigs.
Excellent interview from 2 really nice fellas. We done both of you.
@@dtilils really kind. Thx
I love the Rich Kids and the Pistols and the Professionals.
Steve Jones said that if Glen hadn't have been pushed out or however you want to say it & brought Sid in, & if they hadn't have done the Bill Grundy show then they probably would've gone on to do a lot more. And that for me just about sums it up. The Clash went on to make 5 fantastic albums & I think the Pistols probably could've done the same. Bit of a shame really.
My bass was reality. The reality I created for myself. School wasn't reality, neither was home; they were full of shit bollocks. My bass and my band were me making my own reality, my life. Still is.
Glen is a Top Bloke...a very talented one...and he has a great sense of humour.
The best musician by far in the Pistols
I love Glen. Such an underrated musician. Amazing songwriter.
@@will5150 Much much better musically than Sid Vacuous. He was purely about image & attitude bless his soul
Apart from the single Rich Kids he`s been a nonentity since 1979 lol
Rich Kids were a hugely underrated band, would loved to have heard a second LP.
Glad to hear he thought Pistol was a load of Bollocks!!
It was a bit of fun,it wasn`t meant to be a documentary!
Best musician in the band.
Good guy. The Pistols still have a huge cultural resonance. Should have been way bigger but in 77 there was no MTV unlike in 91 when Nirvana hit. That said, the Bollocks will never age which was demonstrated by the instant sell out tour this year. John made a very stupid pointless and costly for him stand over the Boyle tv show. A very stubborn man.
@@jasonladd6400 agree!
the word 'legendary' is doing some heavy lifting in the description box....
Ssssshhhh We're not in. I remember that.
This current line-up is a sell-out joke, no Pistols without John, who has more credibility than the rest put together.
Glen's a clever guy. He's owns many properties and is a legitimate business man. And a jolly good musician. I was watching some videos were he was playing with johnny thunders and johnny was scolding them all. I mean i love johnny thunders but he's telling Glen and John perry off lol. It was just funny gig to watch. Think it was at Dingwalls.
Is this Richard Branson ?
Johnny rotten is always right about things dont forget that
Glenn The WaY ThinGS Are GoinG You Need To PlaY Thor QPR...
LoVe The GeeZer
YeT Theres No MenTion Of The Group Who MainlY Helped The PiSTolS Career
And ThaTS
The TaViSTocK Group........
John was mistreated by nuns.
*Their
Did the millionaire Lyndon marry help the band
Sex Pistols a "musical bouillabaisse"? Seriously? Nah, they were a seriously limited, monochrome band.
He’s still in the Pistols
Glen'seems reasonable, mild mannered and pretty level-headed. Johnny Rotten would have clashed with Mother Teresa back in the day and would have had the pope using expletives. 😂😂😂
Hahaha! Can’t get the idea of the pope swearing out of my head!
I would have a drink & talk with Glen,much rather then with Lydon. John is constantlly fighting against everything. His love for Trump is the last straw
@@Semprini537 Yeah, John seems to be the opposite of easy-going for sure. 😀
@@Semprini537 I met Lydon at meet and greet, he was a top bloke, very friendly and down to earth. And what is wrong with supporting Trump?
If you don’t understand what is wrong, very wrong with supporting Trump then there’s no point in trying to explain
Steve was a thief …Sid was a cat killing murderer … nice band
did john dirty while caring for nora...... what a stain of a human being
BREXIT! ffs marvellous this geezer gets a bit a cash behind him then has no idea how cheap foreign labour from the eu smashed working mens lively hoods and businesses! NO IDEA!!!
@@jackstrop7520 he seemed upset he can’t travel Europe anymore. He should try being Australian and excitedly going to the mother country for the first time just for a look at where my ancestors came from, and they hold you up at customs for 1 hour asking you all sorts of questions like how much money you got (answer was not much, and they weren’t going to let me in), while people in full burqas are walking through unquestioned with their British passports. Shocked the hell out of me.
Glen's never had 100s of Polish bass players coming over and taking away his job from him has he! So he obviously doesn't get it -- being a rich musician is a luxury we don't all have!
@@jackstrop7520 Glen is absolutely correct instead, Brexit was a mistake and it certainly made the lives of working musicians worse, and not only musicians but entrepreneurs too!
@@Bluepilled-c5twell, if they had British passports they were probably British, burka or not burka.. what a strange comment you made...🤔
@@adreenalize glen has no idea and neither do you, on ya bike!!!
Plus……stop begging
The Sex Pistols were mediocre musicians but societal superstars and greatly changed the direction of pop music away from smooth melodies toward metal.
they were great musicians. thats how much you know
Get off my feed Red Glen Socialist!!!!
Still crying over Brexit!
brexit has created cowards who hid ithe shadows now thinking their racism is legitimised. its stopped freedom of movement and bankrupted thousands of companies
Pontificating about our vote while jetting around the world on constant holidays. Nice. (Talk about tone deaf!)
your vote was over a decade ago. a new generation want change you old fart
@@LdevArt Which vote was "over a decade ago"?!
Glen's never had 100s of Polish bass players queuing up to take away his job from him though has he? (I liked him until the end of the interview.)
right. because you arent very good at whatever you do-it clearly bothers you that people get the best person for the job.. freedom of movement. you oppose that you wef clown
I always thought Glen came across as a genuinely great guy -- until the last 5 minutes of this interview!