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Ron Mc Gregor
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Member # 595

posted February 24, 2006 22:10

The guys are right...

Sex Pistols turn down Hall of Fame honor
By Chris Morris 1 hour, 30 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Sex Pistols have opted out on appearing at their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The groundbreaking English punk rock group officially declined the honor -- to be handed out March 13 at a dinner and performance at the Waldorf Astoria in New York -- in a crudely scrawled, mispunctuated handwritten message posted on the band's Web site Friday.

"Next to the SEX PISTOLS rock and roll and that hall of fame is a piss stain," the statement read. "Your museum. Urine in wine. Were (sic) not coming. Were (sic) not your monkey and so what?"

The statement slammed Hall of Fame voters as "music industry people," and excoriated the high price of attending the exclusive event -- $25,000 for a table, "or $15,000 to squeak up in the gallery."

It concluded, "Your (sic) not paying attention. Outside the sh*t-stem is a real SEX PISTOL."

Other 2006 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame include Black Sabbath, Blondie, Miles Davis, Lynyrd Skynyrd and industry executives Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss.

Susan Evans, executive director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, said of the band's announcement, "They're being the outrageous punksters that they are, and that's rock 'n' roll."

The complete statement is posted at http://www.thefilthandthefury.co.uk.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

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BlackCloud
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Member # 122

posted February 24, 2006 22:50

Yeah, the Pistols were unfabricated punk rock!

Might as well have been the Backstreetboys of the late 70's.

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Cthon
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Member # 156

posted February 24, 2006 23:37

got The Great Rock n Roll Swindle DVD a couple of months ago. they were *something else*, thats for sure.

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K
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posted February 25, 2006 04:11

Dumb bunch of misfits. Great band but not much brains.

My fav Sex Pistol song: Problem

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Seeate
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Member # 480

posted February 26, 2006 06:18

Hardly surprising, the Pistols didn't give a shit about corporate music industry world back then, why should the care now?
They were of course from a fairly poor working class backgound and weren't exactly well educated... apart from Rotten... he's still as sharp as a tack!

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Slaytanic
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posted February 28, 2006 15:55

The ppl at this RnR Hall of Fame should be killed violently for inducing Black Sabbath and this shitty boy band in the same year.

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