It was quite an event. The place was full and it seemed like forever waiting for them to hit the stage. There were press there from all over the world - all the biggies. They were all behind a roped off area to the left of the stage. The whole punk thing had not hit here yet but we had heard and read all about it. We were all still "freaks" or "hippies."

I remember sitting on the dance floor in front of the stage waiting for the show. There was this couple front of us who were fashioning beer can pull-tabs and attaching them to their noses and eyebrows in a futile attempt at punk fashion.

As soon as the Pistols hit the stage we all pelted them with beer cans - hundreds of them! Johnny Rotten was awesome - singing, sneering, screaming and dodging cans. Between songs he would threaten us to stop throwing stuff and kept calling us "cowboy faggots." Great stuff!
Then the legendary "pie-in-the-face" incident happened. Someone threw what looked like a pie or something at Sid Vicious. He retaliated by taking off his bass and pummeling the guy. The show was stopped for a few minutes as security tried to restore order, not that there was much to begin with!

In the movie Sid And Nancy, the crowd was portrayed by a bunch of cowboys. That was inaccurate - if there were cowboys there, I didn't see any. What a show - it ranks as one of my best concerts ever!