And let me elucidate:

I wasn't trying to "establish punkier than thou street cred by claiming to have seen the Pistols" . . . I was merely pointing out that rather than a rebellion against "trite conventions of prevailing rock & pop orthodoxies", the audience were just a bunch of kids having a good time.

Anonymous? Yes. But smug and antagonistic? I think I must have hit a nerve.

And, I never accused you of being an intellectual . . . that would just be ridiculous.