where was bill grundy GOING with his line of questioning on the 'TODAY' show?

He was pissed as a fart

Reading the entire transcript, it appears Grundy had no idea who they were or what he should ask them (the Sex Pistols were last-minute replacements, after all). He probably didn't know where he was going with that line of questioning himself.

where is he now?

Six feet under.

Dead. As opposed to dead drunk, which he often was.

i aint seen 'im

Ha. Television Personalities recorded an EP, "Where's Bill Grundy Now?" in 1978.

RIP, heaven need a dude to perve on goffy chicks

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jRNOUz7uefA

oh i was j/k about "Where's Bill Grundy Now?"...

"Fucking rotter!"

Here's a bit of Grundy festival yap from unjustly malinged "Seminal Live" LP by The Fall:
CRUISER'S CREEK INTRO. [by Bill Grundy] [top of page]

I have never seen five thousand yobbos in my life
I promise you I'm only going to speak to you now
For a few seconds
But a bit later I'm going to tell you
About how I made the fortune of punk rock
Since I think that music starts with Johann Sebastian Bach
And ends with Franz Schubert
You're going to have to listen a bit later
About my interview on television
The first they'd ever had
Bad language
See you later
Enjoy yourselves

(seems to be a music fan of some sort-ah)

Ar, he was the first old man to perve over a goth chixor.

xpost really?

I should have played that album more.

Who was that "other rocker," Eamonn?

I think he misheard Steve Jones as "fuckng rocker"

Eamon was Eamon Andrews, I believe.

yeah, i've always liked seminal live. looking at the sleeve always reminds me of the $5 show at northeastern univ. i missed when i was high school owing to lack of car/lack of friends interested in seeing the fall.

bill grundy talks on a fall album? are they his own words?

Here's a bit of Grundy festival yap from unjustly malinged "Seminal Live" LP by The Fall: CRUISER'S CREEK INTRO.

I have always loved this!! (agreed, another great fall album)

I never knew who was speaking though, thx!

Grundy speaks them, but the syntax and phrasing betray perhaps the mark of Mark.

that's what I always assumed...

Matlock "Mmmmm."

this quote is a little weird when you read it as attributed to the character played by Andy Griffith

this quote is a little weird when you read it as attributed to the character played by Andy Griffith

... lol as I did as well. :-)

Beethoven's gone, but his music lives on,
And Mozart don't go shopping no more.
You'll never meet Lizst or Brahms again,
And Elgar doesn't answer the door.

Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and laugh,
Whilst composing a long symphony.
But one hundred and fifty years later,
There's very little of them left to see.

The decomposing composers,
There's not much anyone can do.
You can still hear Beethoven,
But Beethoven cannot hear you.

Handel and Haydn and Rachmaninoff
Enjoyed a nice drink with their meal.
But nowadays no one will serve them,
And their gravy is left to congeal.

Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds
With their highly original sounds.
The pianos they played are still working,
But they're both six feet underground.

The decomposing composers,
There's less (more!) of them every year.
You can say what you like to
But there's not much of them left to hear.

Claude Akil Debussy. Died, 1918.
Christof Viliborg Kralk. Died, 1787.
Carl Maria von Weber. Not at all well, 1825. Died, 1826.
Giacommo Meiabier. Still alive, 1863. Not still alive, 1864.
Modest Mussorgsky. 1880, going to parties. No fun anymore, 1881.
Johann Neopok Hummel. Chattin' away 19 'an a dozen with his friends down at the Pub every evenin', 1836. 1837, nothing.

(Not too impressed with the spelling of the names in the version I just copy'n'pasted though)

That'll teach them to be insufficiently melodics.

still have no answer to the original question. still baffling.

It seems weird now to think that at the time this would have caused an incredible stir. Now you'd see something like this every week on Recovery or Video Hits or some shit.

p sure you wouldn't

Well ok maybe not all the fuck fucker fuck stuff.

also recovery no longer exists

and hasn't for 10.5 years

also Video Hits is not live, wouldn't tape with a drunk host, wouldn't have hosts who would express contempt towards their interviewees, wouldn't have a band like the Sex Pistols on in the first place, and wouldn't put anything to air if it went "wrong" from a production perspective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0knFHyDD150

E's like yer dad innee this geezer?