My Concert Ticket Stubs 1987 - Public Image Ltd- Happy? Tour

    

     I know what you're thinking "But I can't see anything on the stub" Trust me this is the ticket stub from when I saw PiL at Massey Hall back in 1987. I remember we had floor seats and as soon as the first chords were played we jumped over the rows of seats in front of us and we were at the front for the entire show. This is the show I remember bouncing up and down just into everything and John Lydon reaches out and touches my hand…Johnny Rotten touched me? How can you top that?

    Below is also a picture from that show I came across online, the photo is courtesy of Allan Frank.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

Happy Birthday Johnny Rotten

      John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten singer with the Sex Pistols & Public Image Ltd (PIL) was born on this day in 1956. As much of a influence The Sex Pistols were I have always prefered PIL.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

Public Image Ltd - Rise by petittheatresubversion

Is This the Worst Cover song of All-time?

     

      I've have had the displeasure of being witness to quite a lot of very bad cover versions over the years, I thought Madonna's "American Pie" fiasco took the top spot, but today I came across a cover version so bad that you won't sleep for days. 

    The song is "Rise" and was originally recorded by PiL and it was on their brilliant "Generic" Album, but today my ears were obliterated by the 90's band Tripping Daisy doing their version of "Rise" for the soundtrack of the otherwise quite good film/soundtrack " Basquiat"……why did someone think this was a good idea, I'll let you decide for yourself, first is the original, then is the cover version. I warn you, you will suffer night terrors after this.

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS

PiL-Rise





Tripping Daisy-Rise