We might even call it something different, with a couple of different songs on it."
"It never really came out in America properly," he says. Matlock says he expects to re-release his last proper solo album, 2010's "Born Running," in the United States to coincide with the solo tour. You got to say everything you got to say in that little space of time.'" If it was three minutes it was too long, it wouldn't get on the radio. He says he talked with Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan about how the band's three-minute songs had influenced The Sex Pistols. I think I was the right bloke for the time."
But in addition to being a dream for him, he says, "I brought as much to the table as I got off of them. In 2010, Matlock got a chance to fulfill a lifelong dream and play with a reformed Faces. But we did have a chance to play our music without so much bull. I don't know - it was never going to be the same in '96. He notes that when The Sex Pistols re-formed for a 1996 tour, "of all the people they could have asked, they asked me.
It was not the best career move, but I think I'm doing pretty good with what I'm doing." I wasn't jealous of him, but I thought I'd done more than a quarter share of the work, and I didn't feel I'd been backed up. "Basically, I really felt that Johnny Rotten changed soon as he got his face in the newspaper," Matlock says. Matlock says the story of The Sex Pistols replacing him with Sid Vicious after he was fired for liking The Beatles is punk lore and isn't true. "He asked me the same question, but quite brazenly, in front of New York, 'The Sex Pistols were the best.' So they had to at least admire my chutzpah."
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There's this weird cable TV show and it invited me on to be a celebrity guest," Matlock says. "It's funny I did some wacky art show in New York not that long ago. "The Sex Pistols were the best." And then he laughs. "Here we go," says with exaggerated disdain. Matlock has anticipated the obvious question: whether The Sex Pistols or The Ramones were better. And I think it was because everybody got fed up with the same set of influences at pretty much the same time on both sides of the Atlantic." And we were all quite kind of shocked how close we were on the same page. Or it had just come out, which I hadn't bought yet. "I remember seeing The Ramones in London before they had a record out. "It's funny with The Ramones and The Sex Pistols, how we both grew up and got our thing going - it's pretty much the same songs - without ever hearing each other," he says. Matlock says it's amazing to him that the same thing apparently was happening to groups such as The Ramones in New York City. The Kinks and The Yardbirds and The Small Faces, particularly. "I kind of dug lots of things that came before … your Yes-es and your Genesis-es and all that, and go back to something that was more kind of direct. "I was fortunate enough to be born in the mid-'50s and was about 10 or 11 in the middle of the swinging '60s, and we had the fantastic power of radio in England," he says.
But The Sex Pistols' choice of fast, hard-driving, basic rock 'n' roll was simply playing the music its members loved while growing up, Matlock says.
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