Pistol Whipped

MADONNA MEET SEX PISTOLS


GO HOME PRODUCTIONS "PISTOL WHIPPED" (2004) Vinyl EP
Originally released in March 2004
1. Ray Of Gob (2004 Radio Edit)
2. Problems At The Gay Bar
3. No Feelings 4 Cher
4. Ray Of Gob (Extended)
5. Submusic
extra:
1. Ray Of Gob (Original) 2003
2. God Save Madonna 2003

Go Home Productions is London artist Mark Vidler. Pistol Whipped is a mash-up LP of Sex Pistols songs combined with other tracks.

Ray Of Gob (Radio Edit 2004) starts off with Ronnie Biggs welcoming Ahoy there from The Great Rock and Roll Swindle. Then Ed McMahon says Here's Johnny and the track starts. Sex Pistols Pretty Vacant combined with the vocals from Madonna Ray of Light. The track ends with excerpts from a TV interview. I can't figure who the person is.

Problems At The Gay Bar combines Sex Pistols Problems with The Electric Six Gay Bar. Even though I don't like Electric Six much, the combination works well. Go Home Productions leave in the original chorus to Problems, which adds to the track. The track closes out with someone saying

What is this? I've never heard any music like this in my life before, and if I ever have I [unintelligible]. Boy oh boy

Side 1 closes out with No Feelings 4 Cher, which is a combination of Sex Pistols No Feelings with Cher Believe. Cher sounds like a guy! The device she uses on her voice has become fairly popular, but I believe this is the first hit to have used it. Like the other tracks, this one works real well.

Side 2 starts with Ray Of Gob (Extended). A new intro is added

You don't write God Save the Queen because you hate the English ways, you write a song like that because you loved em, and you're fed up with them being mistreated.

and this time Madonna's Ray of Light is combined with God Save The Queen instead of Pretty Vacant. I like this version better than the other one, except that you have to edit out Johnny Rotten saying 'Alright, just stop the f**king spitting. I don't like being spat at' in the beginning after the opening quote.

The record closes out with Submusic, which combines Sex Pistols Submission with MadonnaMusic. Like the other tracks, it works very well. In fact, it might be my favorite track on the EP.

This EP has a nice sleeve, and blue and white steaked vinyl. Considering the high quality of this release and all the bad Pistols reissues cluttering store's shelves, I'd say that any Sex Pistols collector would be crazy to pass up buying this EP.

---Carl

Side One

1. Ray Of Gob (Radio Edit 2004)
2. Problems At The Gay Bar
3. No Feelings 4 Cher

Side Two

1. Ray Of Gob (Extended)
2. Submusic

Mark Vidler says.
"I created 'Ray Of Gob' in Feb 2003 and still to this day get asked about it and the resulting 'Pistol Whipped' Vinyl EP.Guess I wouldn't be doing what I do now, if it wasn't for this piece of mayhem...video and full story below."

'Ray Of Gob' video - produced by Red (2003)
as seen on every 'mash' tv cable show since 2003-2007..




Ray Of Gob started life as 'Ray Of Jam' initially. I had a demo underway using Madonna's 'Ray Of Light' acapella with 'To Be Someone' by The Jam but when promted to get involved in a GYBO 'Punk' bootleg challenge, I tried the vocal with something more suitable. 20 minutes later, the Sex Pistols 'Pretty Vacant' took it's place.
The original track was completed on a wet Sunday afternoon in Feb 2003, a couple of hours before the GYBO deadline. By that time i'd discovered that the Pistols 'God Save The Queen' was in the same key, so that got used as well. The Grundy samples were an obvious inclusion and Rotten's 'Stop the fucking spitting' from the Trondheim gig seemed a good starter.
The track gained a hell of a lot of notoriety very quickly. It was picked up Eddy Temple-Morris / James Hyman / John Kennedy and Iain Baker at XFM Radio in the UK, who played it many times during that month.
Mark Moore, Siobhan Fahey began dropping it in their DJ sets, you couldn't escape it in clubland.
Media company Red produced a video for it and utilised their connection with Glen Matlock to feed it to the rest of the Pistols, Steve Jones being the most vociferous about it and pushing for an official release...
Pistol Whipped appeared a year later in March 2004 on the Half Inch Recordings label.
5 tracks in all. It included a mix that I put together at the request of Steve Jones and Cher as well as a new version of 'Ray Of Gob' alongside other bootleg mashes that I'd created using the Pistols.

4 years later and people are still discovering it for the first time..

Download Album: Sex_Pistols_-_Pistol_Whipped__Go_Home_Productions-2004.rar
Download Video: Sex_Pistols___Madonna_-_Ray_Of_Gob.mov