Johnny Rotten, New Frontman for Devo!?

ummmm no.

I don't believe this, but it really needs to be said to balance the thread. Both are pretty damn good.

you need to see Human Highway.

Hahahah. That right there, made my entire day! Thanks

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Eat Hot Death!

Just for the record, I think they are both awesome, and I would've loved to see a collaboration between the jerky electronerdpop of Devo and the jittery reggaeskronk of PIL. But I also know it was never meant to be.

I still am wondering seriouly about question 2. Would Lydon overthrow the established Devo order or would he gleefully wear the power accumulator dome hat and march in lockstep with his robotized brothers (even if he only meant it ironically.)

...i feel dizzy now...

(Richard Branson flys Devo to Jamaica to discuss signing and rolls joints for them for the whole weekend...)

Mark: "...Richard (Branson) & Simon (Draper) and all these guys are talking to us, saying "What do you think about the Sex Pistols?". And we're like "Well, we just saw them, they came and saw us play at a punk club there (presumably in San Franciso). Then afterwards three of them of them came over and hung out with us at the place we were staying. Sid, Nancy, Paul and Steve. They were hanging out with us, and they're nice guys. Sid was kind of funny because he was trying to start trouble. He'd do stuff like, people would be at this party and he'd go over to a bottle of beer that was on the table and he'd go like this (Mark places a little pill container on the edge of the deskand gently, gradually taps it further and further until it eventually falls over the edge) and he'd look around to see if anybody was going to be upset. And nobody cared and so he was kind of disappointed he couldn't get anyone angry at him, nobody cared you know.

So anyhow, we're (the Devo and Virgin Records guys) talking about it, saying it's too bad they broke up, they're were a great band and Johnny Rotten was visionary, he's really great and all this stuff. And in the mean time Bob, and I, they're like "No, you guys smoke!" (encourging them to get stoned) so we're smoking this marijuana, and it's more than we've smoked in our lives before. We had a whole joint all to ourselves. We were getting really stoned, and he goes "Well, I'll tell you why I'm asking this... because Johnny Rotten is down here too, and we've got writers from New Musical Express, Sounds magazine and..." What is it, Music Maker?

Nick: Melody Maker?

Mark: Melody Maker, thanks. And he goes "Well we've got these guys from all three magazines that want to talk to you, IF you want Johnny Rotten to be the new lead singer for Devo, we can go down to the beach right now and make an annoucement". And I'm like, "Hmmm... (relaxed and sighing) WHAT?!". It's like, I was just kind of stoned and just talking, like somebody who'd just got stoned for the first time in their life, you know if you'd never smoked that much before. Then also, I'm like "I'm feeling really stoned right now". So, it was one of those things where, have you ever been at church or school or somewhere where everything is just so boring or so weird that you start to laugh, and can't stop? And you're at school and you think "This is so absurd" and then the teachers just talking , and it makes you want to laugh because everything's so absurd, the marijuana was helping that on that, then all I know is I started laughing at HIM! Just "Ahahaha, no, come on! We're not saying it's a bad idea, but ahahahaha!" And we're laughing at Richard Branson and his going and he's just going (in a groan) "Oh..." because he was hoping for that we were going to think that it was a really good idea.

It was a very weird experience for the rest of the time there, because they were still hoping that we were going to say "Yeah, lets make the annoucement!". And we're like "No, it's that we don't think he's great, he's great! Ahahahaha!". We were totally embarassed and totally, overly stoned at the same time, so it was a weird experience. We had a couple of weird experiences with Richard Branson, but that was the weirdest one.

Grunge was just mainstream America catching up with what happened to the rest of the world in 1976

Unless you meant this (which I'd forgotten about) where it's mentioned rather than discussed...

You forgot one word, namely the. THey are THE shit. I never quite liked Sex Pistols - I understand their greatness, but never really liked them - but PIL is hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I can even hear them in the Junior Boys.

.... Unless you meant this (which I'd forgotten about) where it's mentioned rather than discussed..."

Actually I meant this one. No idea how that self-reference happened but sincere apologies to anyone who may have been sucked into a loop for all eternity as a result.