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Well, this is tough. I guess if someone can be a primitivist without being aware of the fact," I'll give ya Sid. But it's tough to think of someone as a ""valid"" modern primitivist if they had no certain awareness of what it was they were doing. I'd be more comfortable saying that music critics and some fans ascribed that characteristic to him. More an ""accidental primitivist."" Otherwise"," we'd have to get into how it can really be Sid's ""primitivism"" if Malcom Mclaren goes out and finds Sid", an amusical drug addict, teaches him a few behaviors," and then cashes in on the ""New Primitivism"" of Sid Vicious", whose very name is pretension! For me, the only thing Sid did was steal media attention from the authentic primitivists.