Sid, Johnny & Me: Live and Up Close With the Sex Pistols in San Antonio, 1978

Mere days from their break-up, I witnessed one of only seven US shows by the legendary and influential UK punk tornado...and met Sid and Johnny.

Armed with safety pins, ripped clothes, and bitter punk vitriol, UK’s Sex Pistols marched across the mostly southern stretches of the United States in January 1978. In fact, January 2022 marked the 44th anniversary of that abbreviated US onslaught that crammed seven aural and visual tornadoes into a scant ten days. And then…poof!

They began their statesi…