TUESDAY, JANUARY 10. The Pistols play Dallas' Longhorn Ballroom. Vicious, who has scrawled the words 'I need a fix' in magic-marker on his naked chest, howls, "All cowboys are queer!" during the gig. When a girl headbutts him on the nose, Vicious lets his blood flow down his chest. He is so out of it that the wait between songs is now several minutes, causing Lydon to sneer: "Look at that - a living circus."
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11. The band travel through a blizzard to play at Tulsa's Caine's Ballroom. Outside, a Baptist pastor pickets the show, saying, "There is a Johnny Rotten inside each of us, and he doesn't need to be liberated, he needs to be crucified.