The Great Southeast Music Hall #1

The Sex Pistols’ first performance on US soil. Five hundred audience members pile into a hall designed more for folk and country music than aggressive rock ‘n’ roll. Three vice squad cops warn US Road Manager Noel Monk that they will not tolerate the band raping women on stage, vomiting on the crowd, sodomizing each other, or beating up the audience. High Times magazine founder Tom Forcade and director Lech Kowalski begin filming for punk documentary D.O.A.: A Right of Passage. Fascinated with the Sex Pistols’ counter-culture manifesto, Forcade featured the band in his magazine prior to the US tour.

The band kicks off with their anti anthem “God Save the Queen”. After the song, Johnny Rotten addresses the crowd: You can all stop staring now. We’re ugly and we know it. Just relax and have some fun. The crowd, one part punk and three parts “just curious”, respond by throwing pig’s feet and pig’s noses at the band. It’s the South after all.