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Even though they are less widely known than their screeching vocalist, Joyce and McGeoch don't seem to feel threatened by his fame. Just because he stands in the back of the stage, Joyce claims, he doesn't feel like he's "in the shadows" of the band. "As far as I'm concerned, it's a group effort," he says...
...McGeoch concurs. Although people in England may still prefer to see Lydon as "Johnny Rotten," he says that in America half of the people have probably not even heard of the Sex Pistols. "[Americans are] just PIL fans," he insists...
When asked to compare PIL's success in America to that in England, McGeoch speculates that the band's "main audience is in America...
During last year, in a tour of about 140 shows, around 115 were performed in North America. McGeoch thinks that last summer's tour was the second largest, superceded only by that of the Rolling Stones...
...comparison, McGeoch finds PIL's reception in Great Britain to be disappointing. "The UK is rather slow for us," he said, adding that the band will probably do only four or five gigs there this year...