9. The rushed second album "Join Hands" had one side dominated by the sprawling "Lord's Prayer", a song that the band had played at their first ever gig featuring, at the time, Sex Pistol Sid Vicious playing which instrument?
From Quiz A Spark From a Hong Kong Garden
Answer:
Drums
In September of 1976 Siouxsie Sioux and Steve Severin were at the 100 Club Punk Festival in London. An act had cancelled and, despite having no band, no name and no songs, the pair decided to "have a go". They dragged in Sid Vicious to play drums and a guitar player by the name of Marco Pirroni and for twenty minutes did an improvisation of "The Lord's Prayer". They were invited back for a second gig and the rest...
On the album however, the song was described by critic David Cleary as "a failed experiment". Running for fourteen minutes and eight seconds it starts with the devotional text and then runs off, as a stream of consciousness, into a maze of pointless directions. The album, which was released early to build on the momentum generated by their debut, feels rushed, spews forth a stream of very bleak lyrics and is endowed with an air of grimness. The use and the length of "Lord's Prayer" only serves to highlight this, making it more of a filler track than a genuine attempt at artistic growth. As if to emphasize this, during the tour to promote the album, John McKay and drummer, Kenny Morris, walked out on the band, acrimonious that the Banshees had drifted away from their "original ideals". How prophetic the closing track, "Switch", from their debut album now seemed.