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KGB’s Beat Farmers Ball, the wacky New Year’s Eve concert at Symphony Hall, must have had Guy Lombardo turning over in his grave.

Instead of ushering in the New Year with “Auld Lang Syne,” the Farmers opened their show with a pounding version of “Anarchy in the U.K.,” the venomous punk-rock anthem by England’s the Sex Pistols.

Later, Harris counted down the New Year between gulps of beer, and Montana and talkin’ bluesman Mojo Nixon staged a mock wrestling match during the group’s rendition of the moldy oldie “The Beat Generation.”

By the end of the evening, even the normally unflappable Montana lumbered up to the microphone, rolled his eyes and muttered, “This is weird.”