Public Image Limited

When I saw this year's Coachella line up the one band that really stuck out to me was the reformation of Public Image Limited. I guess that is how Coachella always tricks you into considering driving into the desert to see 15 minutes of some amazing bands and paying $8 for water.
Since Coachella is on the "Mertaugh list"(I'm too old for that shit)I started looking into PIL shows in LA before the musical dust bowl and saw that they were playing for free at Jimmy Kimmel. Since I am on "funemployment" free is the right price for me. We showed up and I immediately noticed that the crowd was different from the usual 16 year old Mexican girl with "myspace hair". Girls with weird chelsea haircuts, guys with combed over bowl cuts sprinkled in to a crowd of power dads who threw on their weekend khakis mid week and came out to rock!
Once Johnny Rotten was in eye sight the crowd started losing their shit, the guy in front of me wearing khaki shorts grabbed his son and said "THIS GUY IS MY HERO!" and I hoped that Johnny didn't hear him and shove his own Crocs down his throat. Johnny himself was wearing track pants, high top sneakers, an over sized black and white button down and a large suit jacket that made him look like he had just returned from Robert Smith's yard sale.
Once everyone was on stage Johnny announced that he was using Jimmy's show as a practice because they had only had a 4 hour practice prior to kicking off their tour.
As I watched Rotten stomp around the stage like a giant destroying a medieval village I was reminded how much I love Johnny's signature vibrato singing style. The 4 song set that included "This is not a Love Song", "Rise" and "Albatross" was surprisingly tight. PIL has had over 38 rotating members and I feel like this is the right line up for the comeback.
After the show Jimmy's people brought out some chairs and he interviewed Johnny Rotten. Johnny revealed that no labels wanted to pay to get them back together so he sold one of their songs to a British butter company and that money was what was funding the tour, making this what I call the "Paula Deen Image Limited tour".