Sex Pistols to RNR HOF: "Were not your monkeys and so what?"

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Sex Pistols say they won't go to Rock Hall induction

NEW YORK (AP) — For years, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame didn't deem the Sex Pistols, the revolutionary punk rock band, worthy of inclusion into its ranks. Now that the Sex Pistols have gained entry into the club, they've decided the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame isn't worthy of their presence.

The group was finally picked late last year to join the Hall, along with Black Sabbath, Miles Davis, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Blondie, and induction ceremonies are scheduled for March 13 in New York City.

However, in a crude letter posted on its website Friday morning, the group made it clear that they would not be attending.

Comparing the rock hall to "urine in wine," the handwritten letter said: "Were not coming. Were not your monkeys and so what?"

"Fame at $25,000 if we paid for a table, or $15,000 to squeak up in the gallery, goes to a non-profit organisation selling us a load of old famous," the letter read, apparently referring to the cost of attending the dinner, although a representative for the hall said each inductee gets two free tickets, and other tickets are $2,500.

When informed of the group's statement, Susan Evans, the executive director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, said: "They are being the outrageous punksters they are, and that's rock and roll."

USA Today

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Saturday, 25 February 2006 02:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thefilthandthefury.co.uk/images/congrat1.jpg

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Saturday, 25 February 2006 02:40 (twenty years ago)

Grammar'D

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 25 February 2006 02:56 (twenty years ago)

"outrageous punksters"

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 25 February 2006 03:33 (twenty years ago)

I like their anarchic approach to the english language.

Richard Madely once referred to the character of Pacey from Dawson's Creek as a "funster". I wonder if that is any relation to a "punkster".

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Saturday, 25 February 2006 03:36 (twenty years ago)

punkster:

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/3967/punky29zg.jpg

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 25 February 2006 03:39 (twenty years ago)

Playing Atlantic City was much more prestigious for 'em.

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Saturday, 25 February 2006 04:32 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, it still warms my heart to see John telling people to piss off.

Am I the only one who is baffled by the whole "Hall of Fame' thing? Is there an actual hall somewhere? Some sort of crappy waxworks museum deep in the mid-West? Or is it a purely theoretical institution, the US equivalent of becoming a Water Rat or something?

In an ideal world, it would be some sort of secret maximum security institution, and those elected would never be heard from again.

― soukesian, Saturday, 25 February 2006 10:15 (twenty years ago)

There is an actual RNR HOF. It is in Cleveland. Despite this, the ceremonies to induct are in New York. Also, it bills itslef a "museum," but have you ever been in a museum that doesn't *allow* you to take shapshots? They forbid you from taking photos in the tourist destination, claiming that those who made donations requested it. It has nothing to do with the fact that they sell photos in the gift shop...

Mojo Nixon once again OTM:

Rock n Roll Hall of Lame

It's a cryin shame
What they did to our thing
All of the spirit out of it
They did drain

On the shores of Lake Erie
Man there is a committee
It's a corporation
Don't know nothing 'bout fornication
A sick abomination
Ought to be cast out of our nation

It's a Rock n Roll Hall of Lame
Rock n Roll Hall of Shame

Why'd they put it in Cleveland
Well you know it was because of the money
Should be down in Memphis
You know that in your heart sonny
Black ties and limousines
Sure is a real hoity toity scene
But the spirits all wrong
Uptown and mean

Real Rock n Roll's about cheap electrical guitars
And maps to secret places
That serve under age kids in bars

If it was a real Rock n Roll Hall of Fame
they'd have a drug ATM
There would be a drive-in movie theater
Showing Thunder Road and Vanishing Point
It'd be a monument to teenage sex
handin' out free copies of
Fear & Loathing, On The Road, and Steal This Book
would be givin' fake ID to teenagers
But that ain't what is

It's nothing but a big lie
Don't believe the big lie.

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Saturday, 25 February 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

I never went into a museum that *does* allow you to take snapshots.Certainly not in the UK.

Until I went into the Museum of Modern Art in New York. That did.

― mark grout (mark grout), Saturday, 25 February 2006 14:39 (twenty years ago)

I think the fussiness about picture-taking is primarily a UK thing. Other places seem pretty relaxed as long as you don't get in the way. The folk in the Budapest alchemy museum actually took the rope down and encouraged me to climb into part of the exhibit.

― soukesian, Saturday, 25 February 2006 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Susan Evans OTM

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Saturday, 25 February 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

cash 4 chaos

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Saturday, 25 February 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Describing something as innocuous as the obvious corporate hijacking of Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame as "the big lie" shows how completely moronic the majority of rock stars are.
Using 'the big lie' in the context of world affairs and religion would be a little more acceptable.... but rock and roll? give me a break...so no, not OTM in any way.

― baht habit, Saturday, 25 February 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

This thread makes me happy.

― All the robots-UH descend from the bus-UH (Bimble...), Saturday, 25 February 2006 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Obviously theres no money to be made from this so the pistols aren't interested in it.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 25 February 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

mojo nixon has more rock and roll IQ in his pinkie than in your family tree, "baht"

in this context - the RRHOF is the "big lie." You see, rock and roll is entertainment. It does not need to have some goddamn overserious bullshit "message."

Take your whining to the "i love looking in my navel and crying over newspapers" forum.

― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Saturday, 25 February 2006 19:52 (twenty years ago)

No-win situation for the Pistols. Susan Evans has effectively deconstructed their post.

I've been in museums that didn't allow you to take snapshots before.

― eek, Saturday, 25 February 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

oxymoron:

rock and roll IQ

― baht habit, Saturday, 25 February 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

the obvious corporate hijacking of Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame

which was always a corporate enterprise of course but hey

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Sunday, 26 February 2006 00:25 (twenty years ago)

The rocknroll constellation in which Mojo Nixon is a big star is like what, Indie Minor?

― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 26 February 2006 01:02 (twenty years ago)

ROCK 'N ROLL HALL OF FAME (Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments)

Bombs away on the Rock 'n Roll hall of fame
Even if I get indicted I'd probably feel the same
I don't want to see Eric Clapton's stuffed baby
I don't want to see the shotgun of Kurt Cobain
Bombs away bombs away
Cleveland's cool, Cleveland's cool
I don't want to see the liver of David Crosby
I don't want to see all the drugs I couldn't take
I don't want to see collector scum pay

Blow it up, blow it up
Blow it up before Johnny Rotten gets in
Blow it up before Paul Westerberg sits in
Blow it up before Steve Albini gives a speech
Bombs Away Bombs Away

― xhuxk, Sunday, 26 February 2006 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Cute. But due to that official "oh, those punks" response, the Sex Pistols should go anyway, unannounced, and maybe take a dump on stage. Or at least fire a machine gun filled with blanks at the audience.

"Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, you shit on us !?!?!? Well, WE ... SHIT ... ON ... YOU!!!!"

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Sunday, 26 February 2006 01:17 (twenty years ago)

"They are being the outrageous punksters they are, and that's rock and roll." -boil it down so you can be dismissive that's the only way you can love it.

"we're not your monkeys" -sex pistols OTM.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 26 February 2006 01:32 (twenty years ago)

Josh your right - they should totally give her a performance and destroy the place

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 26 February 2006 01:35 (twenty years ago)

it would be fun to hear more of their dialogue too.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 26 February 2006 01:39 (twenty years ago)

I propose that Avril accept the plaque on their behalf

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Sunday, 26 February 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

It would be great if they had Exreme Elvis accept the award for them.

Tom, from the slave Apartments is a good friend of mine and now plays keys for the creepy ts, I'll tell him he's been quoted.

Dear baht- go away.

― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Sunday, 26 February 2006 03:37 (twenty years ago)

That reads like Shakespeare.

Were not your monkeys playful, customer?
Did not they frolic 'pon their typewriters?
The ACME Monkey Corporation deems
Your refund request unfulfillable.

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 26 February 2006 04:08 (twenty years ago)

John Lydon should pull a Budd Dwyer.

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 26 February 2006 06:00 (twenty years ago)

or play "Rise"

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 26 February 2006 06:01 (twenty years ago)

While looking like this:

ihttp://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41375000/jpg/_41375018_pistols_pa203b.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 February 2006 06:03 (twenty years ago)

On-stage suicide (or at least disfigurement) is probably the only thing the audience won't be able to write off as "rock'n'roll."

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 26 February 2006 06:08 (twenty years ago)

i bet this bitch susan evans could. i'm starting to think she's hot.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 26 February 2006 06:13 (twenty years ago)

On-stage suicide (or at least disfigurement) is probably the only thing the audience won't be able to write off as "rock'n'roll."

unfortunately, gg allin (the guy most likely to pull such a stunt) is already dead.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 26 February 2006 06:35 (twenty years ago)

They should give their two free tickets to Gregory Davis

― Englebert Humperdinck Fan Club President (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 26 February 2006 06:59 (twenty years ago)

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