"You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you've got music. "
-Sid Vicious.
Sid Vicious had never picked up a bass guitar in his entire life before Malcom Mclaren asked him to join the group he managed called the Sex Pistols. On stage Vicious was known to carelessly strum on the chords, sometimes even neglecting to play a single note during an entire song. It was Vicious's image that added to the band, not his musical skills. But to the Pistols' fans, he was a musician because of what he represented. And thus when Vicious stood on stage with his bass guitar hanging from his body as if it were solely for decoration, he was seen as a musical genius. But only because he didn't care about being one.
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