| Johnny
Rotten disagrees though "
I think the audiences gobbing on stage came from me.
Because of my sinuses, I do gob a lot on stage, but never
out toward the crowd...But the press will jump on that,
and the next week you get an audience thinking that's its
part of the fashion and everybody has to be in on it. There's not much you can do to stop it after that."
Very
phlegmatic if you'll excuse the pun John.
Says
Julien Temple (Rock'N' Roll Swindle director)
"
When
Rotten finally came out on stage, it was like Agincourt.
There were these massed volleys of gob flying through the
air that just hung John like a Medusa."
Siouxsie
caught conjunctivitis after gob landed in her eye.
Strummer got glandular fever after he swallowed it. Bands like The Clash, Pistols
etc would
be playing with huge big gobs landing on their strings.
No wonder punk bands played fast and wanted to fight
their audiences !
If
you're in a band now just thank god this died out !
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