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Sad, awesome and...true! It was before the Pistols met Malcolm McLaren. They were known as the Folk Festival Pistols ('Pistols' as in flintlock pistols) at the time, and travelled the length and breadth of England accompanying Morris Dancers (it was Mclaren who suggested the name change - the idea that he 'discovered' the group members is erroneous). They were very well regarded, but their departure into the world of electronic music ('the Devil's merriment') caused a real stir; indeed the only reason spitting became commonplace at Pistols gigs was because Morris dancers would turn up in disguise and spit viciously en masse at the band's electronic set-up, and the band themselves, in an attempt to cause electrocution.
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