Glen's bass playing is worthy of attention in this clip. Here they are a proper band, playing and performing well and with decent sound mixing. A brilliant performance from the Pistols. This is how they should have been.
Matlock was a meat and potatoes bass player at best and was well over rated only because he was always compared to Sid and Sid really did suck as a bass player. If I'm honest this is a pretty average performance. They sound bored and tired.
@@freudsc4t447 True he was no Jack Bruce James Jamerson or John Entwhistle but better still infinitely better than the so called bassists in either Coldplay or Oasis
Glenn Matlock will always be the real bassist of the Sex Pistols to me. Sid was a fashion event. I used to have a bass that looked exactly like that though! Stupidly sold it in the 80s lol.
So lucky to be alive when all the best bands were around, just a shame I was a bit young to see the Pistols live in their prime, must have been amazing.
Glen Matlock is a bloody fantastic bass player, nice to see this, the Pistols in their early days, a good few shots of Jordan too! Great era, gave the music industry a good kick up the arse and the establishment too.
I am 66 and this band came at the perfect time, Glam rock had been over for a couple of years and the void was filled by aweful soul music, the charts were terrible.....then came Punk....faaannntastic like a shot in the arm
More like a kick in the butt or a slap in the face I'd say. Not something which can be ignored or overlooked, they made you deal with it one way or another.
They changed the face of British music. I was banned from listening to them, I was only 9/10 years old at the time so used to sneak up to my cousins house to listen to them.
Yeah I was 12 in ‘77, this was the start of the something that I feel changed everything, the media, the old guard, people just started things, indie labels, fanzines, with little money they achieved amazing things.
The Clash, The Damned and The Sex Pistols. Siouxsie and the Banshees and many many more. We had great fun back then. And Tony Wilson: Bakunin would have loved it. Possibly.
I was 13 in 76. Just think this was only 7 years after Woodstock, music evolved and mutated a whole lot quicker than the mass industrially marketed product we have had in recent years.
When you think Saturday Night Fever was just around the corner from this Pistol’s performance it really demonstrates how incredibly diverse the music world was at that time.
People like Simon Cowell and programmes like the X-Factor exist to stagnate chart/mainstream music and to keep it safe and inoffensive. Thank goodness they weren't around preserving the status quo in the 70s!
Steve sounds terrible. Something’s gone wrong with his kit. No overdrive in the sound whatsoever. Sounds like he’s playing with strings out of tune, just directly into a clean amp of some sort.
I always thought this. Glen certainly added depth to the Pistols sound and I would love for Glen to get hold of the Bollocks sessions and re-record the bass lines. Then we could have a special double edition release to compare the two versions of Bollocks. What a treat!
There are time in music that you can witness a massive turn in it. This was one of times. Music grew up here. Sometime people try to turn it back around. They always fail.
Roxy Music, Bowie, Lou Reed, Cockney Rebel yes Cockney Rebel to name a few , not to mention some great soul singers Marvin Gaye, Al Green etc , your choice if you listened to the Rubettes and all the rest.
@@michaelodowd4807 I'm talking about rock and the stuff that was mainly in the charts at the time. Roxy Music and Bowie were avant-garde and Cockney Rebel didn't really appear until 1974.
They were due to make an appearance in my home town of Barnstaple in North Devon......I think it was early 1977(?).......but it never happened,they'd split up by then! John Lyndon now.....about 66 years old,over weight......and probably past it!!! Ah well,THAT'S LIFE!
@@alanstevens8896 What youve just said doesnt resonate with me so i did some research . 1st of all they were never due to play in Barnstable and 2nd of all they hadnt split up early 77 . They split up in January '78 .
I agree but almost all the bass tracks in the LP were played by Steve Jones with a pick. Steve composed all the songs, played great guitar and the others added the insanity with Johnny Rotten as the leader.
AAA+ Punk was a bandwagon the Pistols rode, the music the band made was amazing. They still resonate, their songs will live forever. Rotten knew the U.K. was fucked in the seventies- he told it straight.
Thank you so much for posting this extremely precious video footage of this iconic band. The bass guitar can really be heard to very easily in the mix. Just don't tell Lars please, seriously. They sound really good here.
Porque se fueron haciendo músicos sobre la marcha, el único que tenía nociones musicales era Glenn Matlock en el bajo. Aún así fue increíble como en sólo unos meses aprendieron y grabaron un disco con unas canciones que son unos himnos, al paso del tiempo de les ha reconocido que fueron músicos y crearon todo un movimiento que décadas después tiene influencia. Saludos.
Una cosa es hacerse famosos, que los conozca todo el mundo, etc, y otra muy diferente que lo hicieran por ser buenos músicos. Como músicos siempre fueron malísimos, igual que los Ramones o tantos otros que tocaban 2 acordes y punto. Sid es mundialmente conocido y no sabía tocar absolutamente nada.
@@Lord_Hillcrest There's a guy on UA-cam - Max Ostro. After a year and a half of guitar lessons, he was playing the most difficult solos from Paul Gilbert, considered by many to be the most technical guitarist of our time. With the proper desire, a year is more than enough time to play any Pistols' parts, which are essentially very basic rock 'n' roll. Sure, there are plenty of guitarists who, even after 20 years on stage, are playing far worse than Steve Jones, but that doesn't make him incredible either.
@@deciocavallo7332 Yeah. Jones later said that Matlock leaving the band was their biggest mistake. We can only wonder what else they could have done together, because the band members recorded a lot of great music separately.
Revolver was another good music show, hosted by the late great peter cook. Lot's of great punk bands on the show, Something Else was another one. Great days 🎸🧷🎤
Big Mistake to have gotten rid of Matlock & big mistake to have gone on the Today show . I think it took years for people to realise how good the Pistols were musically & not just a publicity stunt
I was never sure whether Glen was sacked or resigned. But you’re right, he shouldn’t have gone. Although many years later he appeared on Pointless - talk about selling out! And in their latter years they did a reggae version of Pretty Vacant… Mind you, Lydon on the anodyne One Show was great. There was an item about a pier having burnt down. ‘Oh!’ says our John ‘Insurance job, eh!’ ‘No, no!’ cry the presenters, thinking of the legal implications. Then later, the presenters gently put forward the opinion of some that The Pistols were racist (have you seen John’s wife??). That provoked a reaction! John looked angrily at the camera and started to say ‘If any of those BASTARDS come to our shows…’ before being stopped.
I love that you can hear the bass in this. So many live vids have Sid and he’s usually unplugged because of how incredibly awful he was (considering he wasn’t a musician at all, and never came to be one either for obvious reasons). Glenn wasn’t the _best_ bass player in the world but he *did* know how to play quite well. Considering Jonesy could barely play 3 chords, Glenn was more than well suited as a bass player in this band. I know he was quite _vanilla_ compared to the rest of them, but that’s a silly reason to replace him with a non-musician who happened to have the right look. I know Johnny and Glenn often fought, but Malcolm also fanned the flames. As Johnny has said before, none of them got along. They were all very different and that’s what worked for them. Oh well.. c’est la vie
@@stevefraser2789 lol, no. He didn’t know how to play when they started the Pistols. He’s obviously learned more guitar skills over the course of decades, but that’s not where he was at way back then.
Well none of them were "musicians" though, I mean that was a big part of the spark behind it all, for the Pistols and everyone. If you mean it, say it, do it, play it, carry on and see what happens. Sid was abruptly brought into a careening machine that was already hated and despised, a figurehead expected to play and replay many parts with bassist being the least of them, yet he did try and he was trying. He knew how to play as someone sang long ago, and there's no telling what he might have done. The one thing I can say for certain that he he didn't do is murder that girl.
He probably wouldn't appreciate me saying this, as I'm not sure he ever wanted to be but even now Lydon looks cool as f**k. All these years later and he probably still has more presence and magnetism than any other frontman.
I think Jordan was more shocking than John in this clip. I remember going into the bathroom and cutting my hair short the night I saw them for the first time. At 62, I still cut my own hair. :o)
The first and only real punk band of that era. Bullocks still stands as one of the best albums, of any genre, ever made. Matlock was key to their success, too bad he was dropped. As entertaining and shocking as Syd was he added very little to the music. Jonesys riffs, cooks beats and matlocks bass lines were the perfect slate for Rottens voice and scathing lyrics. So damn good!
@@yoyowson2204 On some of the tracks he did because they were recorded after Matlock was fired. On others it is Matlock. The album was recorded over several months which bracketed Matlock’s time with the band.
@@yoyowson2204 you are correct, Jonesy said himself thankfully Sid was in hospital when they recorded it so he did the bass parts they’d of probably never finished if sid was on the bass cause he was total dogshit.
One can see how calculating the act concept was in retrospect, which doesn't seem totally punk, but they were no novelty they were really good. The British Stooges, self imploding was probably inevitable. Watching early Lydon, you can tell the progression through the PiL albums was his path.
This host sez all 3 bands were independent, yet wiki states this was 'the band's debut single on 26 November 1976' on EMI. This would've already been getting airplay
Back in the seventies when the pistols emerged, a lot of industry people were looking for the next Beatles. Well, imo, the next “Beatles” came up and bit everyone on the bum in the form of the Pistols and nobody saw it. No other band since the Beatles had that much overall impact and influence on society. Yeah, the Ramones and a couple of others were around before the Pistols hit, but they really ushered in the entire New Wave era.
I'll never forget my big brother bringing Never Mind The Bollocks home & constantly lifting the stylus to play Bodies over & over & how excited we were to hear "Fuck this & fuck that!" 🤣😂🤣😂 Fantastic ! 👌🤣
Sex Pistols sont les pères du punk, ils ont inspiré Joy Division. Deux groupes qui ont la carrière la plus brève et qui pourtant sont entrés dans la légende pour toujours. Et qui les a révélés à la TV ? Tony Wilson bien sûr ! Gloire à eux et merci pour toutes les émotions que je leur dois...
@@anthonyfuqua6988 This is the eternal question: can an artist be judged independently of his moral conduct and solely by his work? I much prefer the personalities of Joe Strummer and Mick Jones. But apart from the sordid history of one of the members of the first group, I prefer it to the second.
@@herpat72 That's fine. I like both. Pretty Vacant was a great song. They were a flash in the pan though. What would their subsequent albums sounded like? The Clash had more albums. I really respect John Lydon though. I can seperate their music from what one member in the band did. Someone who wasnt even in the band that long and couldnt even play his bass. But because of what he did, when you hear Sex Pistols, most people think of Sid Vicious.
Sex Pistols, do you remember 1977 ? at Penzance on the Go Karts, when I put up the last lap board, and one of you came in flat out, hit the Armco barrier and just walked off unharmed. Great memories.
Matlock was really plucking that Bass and he gets replaced by Sid who could barely play but he looked more like a Punk with Spiked Hair and Pogo Jumping. Matlock got the raw end of the deal and it eventually imploded the Pistols because Matlock wrote or co-wrote much of the first album and they were unable to put out a second one without him. Never fire your main songwriter! They were done after one Tour of America afterwards.
Saw them live in 78. With Sid. Still one of the greatest gigs i've ever seen. And i've seen plenty inc the 2nd last Led Zep gig before Bonham died in 80. I'd put it right up there with early 77-78 Motorhead and AC/DC with Bon Scott. Electrifying
Matlock was the “John Entwistle” of The Pistols. Worthy of the “Thunderfingers” moniker. The Who were the first Punks. The fact the Pistols covered “Substitute” is proof positive.
So It Goes (TV series), broadcast 28 August 1976. Other live performances were by Gentlemen singing 'My Ego's Killing Me” (prog rock), and the Bowles Brothers Band performing 'Charlie's Nuts' (not sure what to call this). Weird run up to the Pistols.
My late uncle Colin was a cameraman on ‘So It Goes’. There are photos of him filming The Jam, Buzzcocks and Penetration. I’d love to know if he was there for Sex Pistols, but he passed away in 1979.
I was a tad too young for punk and I think my favourite music at that time would have been Showaddywaddy, Bill Haley and old T. Rex singles. Unfortunately, my experience of punk was tainted by association with copy-paste urchins and trendy phuckers who would absorb themselves for five minutes in every ensuing drip-fed trend from rude boy to Dexys to Dire Straits. I liked the Jam and the Rezillos but the Pistols had already passed me by. Always appreciated them in retrospect, though. I love this performance.
We didn't care about anything but the energy and the rejection of all we felt was repressive. The fact it pissed everyone off was a bonus. You can say what you like about Punk, but it was a catalyst that changed everything.
From their first TV performance it was clear they were out to annihilate all poser art and mediocrity. Although other prior bands that lead to this moment were "protopunk" and worthy of note the Pistols were absolute pure punk from day one.
Tony Wilson - so great to see him. I only know him from the Steve Coogan movie. Never understood the public freak-outs about the Pistols, they played good music and didn't sacrifice animals on stage. They were all over the US tv in 1976, they were made out like the children of Satan.
Not sure if this is "So It Goes" but definitely a Granada production. Say what you want about Tony but my god he knew how to spot trends and nurture them. Love him or hate him, he was a pioneer. And no doubt he was an absolute television natural. Crap businessman, brilliant journalist. As Vini Reilly said "yeah he's a bit of a twat like...but christ he's a clever bastard"
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It's great how Johnny seemed kind of threatening back in the day, and now he's like everyone's crotchety uncle. Love the guy.
He’s turned into a anti immigrant fekwit
Glen's bass playing is worthy of attention in this clip. Here they are a proper band, playing and performing well and with decent sound mixing. A brilliant performance from the Pistols. This is how they should have been.
Matlock was a meat and potatoes bass player at best and was well over rated only because he was always compared to Sid and Sid really did suck as a bass player.
If I'm honest this is a pretty average performance. They sound bored and tired.
@@freudsc4t447 True he was no Jack Bruce James Jamerson or John Entwhistle but better still infinitely better than the so called bassists in either Coldplay or Oasis
They are still a Great Rock and Roll swindle all the best
Dead on mate.
@@eddiekingham well done kid we are all still pretty vacant
You can hear the quality of Glen’s bass playing on this clip - a greatly underrated part of the Pistol’s early sound.
The first thing I noticed
He wrote the songs. And some of the most memorable lyrics.
@Vase of Flowers
I agree for the most part but the Sid 'slagging' is a party line. He was far more than competent
@@sexobscura even at amateur level, Sid was still a 3/10. Glen is a 9/10 intermediate easy.
100% correct
Glenn Matlock will always be the real bassist of the Sex Pistols to me. Sid was a fashion event. I used to have a bass that looked exactly like that though! Stupidly sold it in the 80s lol.
One of the best rock and roll moments of all time. Literate, energized and just bloody good fun.
yes indeed
I am 58 now and that intro still sends tingles through me.
is that all, i'm 66
55 here still feel that adrenaline rush at this intro
in the ass
@@ianbentley7276 and u are gay.
Bollocks is still one of the most solid rock albums of all time.
Best bit is at the end, where Johnny glares at the audience like a caged animal then walks off. Priceless.
Absolutely epic
Pure contempt
@@philread7668 Pure Punk in all it's powerful meaning.
Never saw the Pistols live, but I did see Johnny with PiL. A very compelling, malevolently mischievous performer.
Narcissistic stare .
So lucky to be alive when all the best bands were around, just a shame I was a bit young to see the Pistols live in their prime, must have been amazing.
Glen Matlock is a bloody fantastic bass player, nice to see this, the Pistols in their early days, a good few shots of Jordan too!
Great era, gave the music industry a good kick up the arse and the establishment too.
He was good at playing chord root notes, usually eight to a bar, all in a row.
Like everyone in the band else he sucked and is extremely overrated
I am 66 and this band came at the perfect time, Glam rock had been over for a couple of years and the void was filled by aweful soul music, the charts were terrible.....then came Punk....faaannntastic like a shot in the arm
More like a kick in the butt or a slap in the face I'd say. Not something which can be ignored or overlooked, they made you deal with it one way or another.
It is only in recent years I realized how important this band really was.
Important my arse. get a life you cretin !
Yeah.
you're never too old to learn
They changed the face of British music. I was banned from listening to them, I was only 9/10 years old at the time so used to sneak up to my cousins house to listen to them.
Yeah I was 12 in ‘77, this was the start of the something that I feel changed everything, the media, the old guard, people just started things, indie labels, fanzines, with little money they achieved amazing things.
The Clash, The Damned and The Sex Pistols. Siouxsie and the Banshees and many many more. We had great fun back then. And Tony Wilson: Bakunin would have loved it. Possibly.
I was 13 in 76. Just think this was only 7 years after Woodstock, music evolved and mutated a whole lot quicker than the mass industrially marketed product we have had in recent years.
When you think Saturday Night Fever was just around the corner from this Pistol’s performance it really demonstrates how incredibly diverse the music world was at that time.
Look arround a bit some good stuff arround.....nor in the charts though.
@@robjanssen2961 Absolutely. Rather like TV there IS still good stuff to find, but it's spread around so many outlets that it often goes by unnoticed.
People like Simon Cowell and programmes like the X-Factor exist to stagnate chart/mainstream music and to keep it safe and inoffensive. Thank goodness they weren't around preserving the status quo in the 70s!
I had a friend who was at the infamous Sex Pistols show in Dallas in 1978. He came from the show saying "they were awful but incredible."
It's amazing how bands could get on TV in the UK then without a record deal!
Glen was killing it! Man he got the raw end of the deal
They traded a competent player for an image.
He was a musician not a junkbomb woman killer.
He walked out.
@Satanic Panic Fun and Games And the bum who didn't play 1 note gets the glory,hail hail,rocknroll.
There's more to be being in a band, especially a highly influential one, than just getting paid.
Cookie was a great drummer even back then , and Glen was always great,
The best TV performance by any band ever!
MR. GLENN MATLOCK GIVES US A BASS GUITAR LESSON AT THE FINEST...
Glen is so good on bass he is almost playing rhythm guitar to fill Steve’s sound out
Glen was shit!
Very thumping and indeed carrying along that rhythm like a another guitar.
@@krisscanlon4051 You two are so gay
Glen was absolute rubbish....which why he was quite rightly thrown out of the band
Steve sounds terrible. Something’s gone wrong with his kit. No overdrive in the sound whatsoever. Sounds like he’s playing with strings out of tune, just directly into a clean amp of some sort.
I always thought this. Glen certainly added depth to the Pistols sound and I would love for Glen to get hold of the Bollocks sessions and re-record the bass lines. Then we could have a special double edition release to compare the two versions of Bollocks. What a treat!
There are time in music that you can witness a massive turn in it. This was one of times. Music grew up here. Sometime people try to turn it back around. They always fail.
Loved it. After 6 years of Teenyboppers, Weenyboppers, Mud, Kenny, Rubettes and all the rest of that rubbish, this was the bomb that needed to go off.
Roxy Music, Bowie, Lou Reed, Cockney Rebel yes Cockney Rebel to name a few , not to mention some great soul singers Marvin Gaye, Al Green etc , your choice if you listened to the Rubettes and all the rest.
@@michaelodowd4807 I'm talking about rock and the stuff that was mainly in the charts at the time. Roxy Music and Bowie were avant-garde and Cockney Rebel didn't really appear until 1974.
Still utterly brillliant
They were due to make an appearance in my home town of Barnstaple in North Devon......I think it was early 1977(?).......but it never happened,they'd split up by then! John Lyndon now.....about 66 years old,over weight......and probably past it!!! Ah well,THAT'S LIFE!
@@alanstevens8896 What youve just said doesnt resonate with me so i did some research . 1st of all they were never due to play in Barnstable and 2nd of all they hadnt split up early 77 . They split up in January '78 .
That this follows a Derek and Clive plug is completely appropriate
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?😂
@@MrMrh1958 I know! And here's The Sex Pistols!!🤣
Tony Wilson must have been a right laugh
@@aldershot5100 I thought he was a twat!🤣
Get out the cab!
Matlocks' right hand fluidity is a thing of beauty.
Kinda nice having an actual bassist instead of a punk supermodel just making random noise.
So of course he had to go! Haha
I agree but almost all the bass tracks in the LP were played by Steve Jones with a pick. Steve composed all the songs, played great guitar and the others added the insanity with Johnny Rotten as the leader.
@@Tolbens Chris Spedding was also supposedly involved.
@@Tolbens Actually at least half or more songs were written by Glen Matlock
AAA+ Punk was a bandwagon the Pistols rode, the music the band made was amazing. They still resonate, their songs will live forever. Rotten knew the U.K. was fucked in the seventies- he told it straight.
Rotten was a sage and a prophet. The greatest Englishman of the 20th century after Winston Churchill
Thank you so much for posting this extremely precious video footage of this iconic band. The bass guitar can really be heard to very easily in the mix. Just don't tell Lars please, seriously. They sound really good here.
No entiendo porque decían que tocaban mal. Su música es el vehículo perfecto para lo que querían expresar.
Porque se fueron haciendo músicos sobre la marcha, el único que tenía nociones musicales era Glenn Matlock en el bajo. Aún así fue increíble como en sólo unos meses aprendieron y grabaron un disco con unas canciones que son unos himnos, al paso del tiempo de les ha reconocido que fueron músicos y crearon todo un movimiento que décadas después tiene influencia. Saludos.
Una cosa es hacerse famosos, que los conozca todo el mundo, etc, y otra muy diferente que lo hicieran por ser buenos músicos. Como músicos siempre fueron malísimos, igual que los Ramones o tantos otros que tocaban 2 acordes y punto. Sid es mundialmente conocido y no sabía tocar absolutamente nada.
One of the most iconic Rock n Roll episodes..
Incredible when you think Jonesy only started learning guitar 12 months before this
And It Is visibile.😂
@@deciocavallo7332 As is your ignorance .
@@Lord_Hillcrest There's a guy on UA-cam - Max Ostro. After a year and a half of guitar lessons, he was playing the most difficult solos from Paul Gilbert, considered by many to be the most technical guitarist of our time. With the proper desire, a year is more than enough time to play any Pistols' parts, which are essentially very basic rock 'n' roll. Sure, there are plenty of guitarists who, even after 20 years on stage, are playing far worse than Steve Jones, but that doesn't make him incredible either.
Glen Matlock the only one who had any idea what he was doing
@@deciocavallo7332 Yeah. Jones later said that Matlock leaving the band was their biggest mistake. We can only wonder what else they could have done together, because the band members recorded a lot of great music separately.
So It Goes... was such a great show. Especially for regional tv.
Revolver was another good music show, hosted by the late great peter cook. Lot's
of great punk bands on the show,
Something Else was another one.
Great days 🎸🧷🎤
I was 16 in 1976, great time to be alive…apparently I’m a gammon and a boomer now😀
Whoever coins you that is merely jealous of the fine years you lived. Who'd want to be 16 in this dull day and age?
Same age. Good stuff, we lived through
Yeah, you are, but embrace it mate! (I was 15.)
you are. But just be happy, because you were lucky, got the best times of last century. Nowadays young generation isn't so lucky.
Gammon is a state of mind. If you voted Brexit and vote Conservative...gammon it is! Otherwise you re still ok 😀
Replacing Glen with Sid was the fucking kiss of death for such a potent band. They're at their peak here.
I saw this when aired. Nothing was ever the same. l My life totally changed
You are such a liar! You were busy watching Gardener's Weekly you old fart!
Even now they look like they're from another planet. In 1976 this must've looked insane lol
Nope, we'd already had The Who
i remember being taught about the pistols in my year 7 music class, i’ve actually never been the same since
Yep
We were so ready for this sound in in 1976. 👌💕
@@neil1958-s5k but the who "became" mainstream"
If only Sid had been able to bass like that. Damn, they sounded good with this line-up.
If I had turned the TV on and seen this performance having never heard of them, I would assume they were on their way to conquering the world.
Big Mistake to have gotten rid of Matlock & big mistake to have gone on the Today show . I think it took years for people to realise how good the Pistols were musically & not just a publicity stunt
I was never sure whether Glen was sacked or resigned. But you’re right, he shouldn’t have gone. Although many years later he appeared on Pointless - talk about selling out! And in their latter years they did a reggae version of Pretty Vacant… Mind you, Lydon on the anodyne One Show was great. There was an item about a pier having burnt down. ‘Oh!’ says our John ‘Insurance job, eh!’ ‘No, no!’ cry the presenters, thinking of the legal implications. Then later, the presenters gently put forward the opinion of some that The Pistols were racist (have you seen John’s wife??). That provoked a reaction! John looked angrily at the camera and started to say ‘If any of those BASTARDS come to our shows…’ before being stopped.
Nah, the Today interview is priceless and part of Rock History now.
Yes. So unfortunate they sacked Glen. They could have easily gone way further, amazing potential!
@@sborges433 Yes agreed. It took nearly 30 years for people to recognise how good they were
Sid Vicious was a bigger mistake!
Matlock was brilliant
glen should re form the pistols with a new singer
Glenn looking dapper AF These days too!
jesus christ. the fact your comment actually got likes is depressing
Awesome! I've never seen any footage with Glen before. This must be pre-Malcolm as well. Just sooo wayyyy cool.
💖the most romantic music ever created 💕
Mattock is so underrated great bass player
Best thing to happen to music utterly brill 🇬🇧👍
A real kick in the ass for music at the time.
Well, for pop music anyway. Not anything very shocking for the avant-garde world.
arse
The Sex Pistols! My favorite R&B Band! Lots of Fun! And they had Cute Groupies!
I love that you can hear the bass in this. So many live vids have Sid and he’s usually unplugged because of how incredibly awful he was (considering he wasn’t a musician at all, and never came to be one either for obvious reasons). Glenn wasn’t the _best_ bass player in the world but he *did* know how to play quite well. Considering Jonesy could barely play 3 chords, Glenn was more than well suited as a bass player in this band. I know he was quite _vanilla_ compared to the rest of them, but that’s a silly reason to replace him with a non-musician who happened to have the right look. I know Johnny and Glenn often fought, but Malcolm also fanned the flames. As Johnny has said before, none of them got along. They were all very different and that’s what worked for them.
Oh well.. c’est la vie
Very well said!
Jonesy could barely play 3 chords??? WTF... He was an amazing guitar player. Amazing
@@stevefraser2789 lol, no.
He didn’t know how to play when they started the Pistols. He’s obviously learned more guitar skills over the course of decades, but that’s not where he was at way back then.
Well none of them were "musicians" though, I mean that was a big part of the spark behind it all, for the Pistols and everyone. If you mean it, say it, do it, play it, carry on and see what happens. Sid was abruptly brought into a careening machine that was already hated and despised, a figurehead expected to play and replay many parts with bassist being the least of them, yet he did try and he was trying. He knew how to play as someone sang long ago, and there's no telling what he might have done. The one thing I can say for certain that he he didn't do is murder that girl.
He probably wouldn't appreciate me saying this, as I'm not sure he ever wanted to be but even now Lydon looks cool as f**k. All these years later and he probably still has more presence and magnetism than any other frontman.
He looks much better & interesting now!
Rotten was the best
They replaced Mr. Matlock with with Sid Atrocious?!!! It's a terrible thing!!! Tell me
Nooooo!!!!
No
Best dressed pistol, punk, human at the time and now. Especially the winter land outfit
I just love the 70's "out of the focus" tv style when the host appears...it is so nostalgic...
I think Jordan was more shocking than John in this clip. I remember going into the bathroom and cutting my hair short the night I saw them for the first time. At 62, I still cut my own hair. :o)
I clip my own hair and do my own dentistry.
Only broadcast in the Manchester area in early September 1976.
By December 1976 they were banned from UK TV.
The first and only real punk band of that era. Bullocks still stands as one of the best albums, of any genre, ever made. Matlock was key to their success, too bad he was dropped. As entertaining and shocking as Syd was he added very little to the music. Jonesys riffs, cooks beats and matlocks bass lines were the perfect slate for Rottens voice and scathing lyrics. So damn good!
I think on Nevermind all the bass was played by Jones
@@yoyowson2204 On some of the tracks he did because they were recorded after Matlock was fired. On others it is Matlock. The album was recorded over several months which bracketed Matlock’s time with the band.
Totally agree with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️ Absolutely!!!!!!!!! ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️
@@yoyowson2204 you are correct, Jonesy said himself thankfully Sid was in hospital when they recorded it so he did the bass parts they’d of probably never finished if sid was on the bass cause he was total dogshit.
One can see how calculating the act concept was in retrospect, which doesn't seem totally punk, but they were no novelty they were really good. The British Stooges, self imploding was probably inevitable. Watching early Lydon, you can tell the progression through the PiL albums was his path.
Thanks John, Steve, Glen, Paul and Sid
🧷🎤⛓️🔒🔗🎸
This host sez all 3 bands were independent, yet wiki states this was 'the band's debut single on 26 November 1976' on EMI. This would've already been getting airplay
I saw this when it originally went out on television.
Back in the seventies when the pistols emerged, a lot of industry people were looking for the next Beatles. Well, imo, the next “Beatles” came up and bit everyone on the bum in the form of the Pistols and nobody saw it. No other band since the Beatles had that much overall impact and influence on society. Yeah, the Ramones and a couple of others were around before the Pistols hit, but they really ushered in the entire New Wave era.
I'll never forget my big brother bringing Never Mind The Bollocks home & constantly lifting the stylus to play Bodies over & over & how excited we were to hear "Fuck this & fuck that!" 🤣😂🤣😂 Fantastic ! 👌🤣
Sex Pistols sont les pères du punk, ils ont inspiré Joy Division. Deux groupes qui ont la carrière la plus brève et qui pourtant sont entrés dans la légende pour toujours. Et qui les a révélés à la TV ? Tony Wilson bien sûr ! Gloire à eux et merci pour toutes les émotions que je leur dois...
Sex Pistols fell apart and ended up with a bassist who couldnt play and murdered a girl. The Clash were more important.
@@anthonyfuqua6988 This is the eternal question: can an artist be judged independently of his moral conduct and solely by his work? I much prefer the personalities of Joe Strummer and Mick Jones. But apart from the sordid history of one of the members of the first group, I prefer it to the second.
@@herpat72 That's fine. I like both. Pretty Vacant was a great song. They were a flash in the pan though. What would their subsequent albums sounded like? The Clash had more albums. I really respect John Lydon though. I can seperate their music from what one member in the band did. Someone who wasnt even in the band that long and couldnt even play his bass. But because of what he did, when you hear Sex Pistols, most people think of Sid Vicious.
Classic clip great band always be popular and stir interest in the punk scence
"The thing about the Pistols is that they could play.... before Sid Vicious." - Joe Strummer
Derek & Clive would be canceled in a heartbeat today. The Sex Pistols, on the other hand, would not shock anyone the way they did in the 70s.
Matlock`s best musician
Sex Pistols, do you remember 1977 ? at Penzance on the Go Karts, when I put up the last lap board, and one of you came in flat out, hit the Armco barrier and just walked off unharmed. Great memories.
A lot of raw young energy and expression in that performance and yet surprisingly tight in terms of rhythm and timing.
I truly believe Glen was more sheer punk energy than syd posing lol
Not everyone's cup of tea, but what they did bring was energetic music and stage presence.
@Negus Negast That's the YT censor's version of what I'd actually in-person. It took old(er) age to make me diplomatic (some of the time).
I agree, this never touched me at all, but I understand it was something to so many!
Nice to see the late great Manchester man Tony Wilson on the intro and outro and Johnny's face at the end was wonderfull.
He should have got a statue.
Matlock was really plucking that Bass and he gets replaced by Sid who could barely play but he looked more like a Punk with Spiked Hair and Pogo Jumping. Matlock got the raw end of the deal and it eventually imploded the Pistols because Matlock wrote or co-wrote much of the first album and they were unable to put out a second one without him. Never fire your main songwriter! They were done after one Tour of America afterwards.
They were never meant to be anything more than a poke at the industry.
Saw them live in 78. With Sid.
Still one of the greatest gigs i've ever seen.
And i've seen plenty inc the 2nd last Led Zep gig before Bonham died in 80.
I'd put it right up there with early 77-78 Motorhead and AC/DC with Bon Scott.
Electrifying
@@stvsmith1791 They even made a film to explain what they did.
@@stvsmith1791 You may be right as Sid didn’t even make it to 27. He was only 21 when he died. But Matlock is still alive and playing shows.
Matlock was the “John Entwistle” of The Pistols. Worthy of the “Thunderfingers” moniker. The Who were the first Punks. The fact the Pistols covered “Substitute” is proof positive.
Arguably one of the most controversial rock acts to hit the scene. Pissed off sarcastic Johnny Rotten is 8th wonder of the world
Wow. The Pistols with a gifted bassist .
So It Goes (TV series), broadcast 28 August 1976. Other live performances were by Gentlemen singing 'My Ego's Killing Me” (prog rock), and the Bowles Brothers Band performing 'Charlie's Nuts' (not sure what to call this). Weird run up to the Pistols.
credit to tony wilson. man had a vision and unique perception.
My late uncle Colin was a cameraman on ‘So It Goes’. There are photos of him filming The Jam, Buzzcocks and Penetration. I’d love to know if he was there for Sex Pistols, but he passed away in 1979.
This is a proper British punk band.
They should of kept the first bassist. He was actually good.
Way better without Sid Vicious
Tony Wilson is needed now more than ever.
And John Peel .
@@Lord_Hillcrest peado married a 14 year old girl. A bit hard for Tony Wilson brown bread
@@TheWelwyn21 He didnt marry a 14 year old girl though he openly admits to having sex with under age girls .
I was a tad too young for punk and I think my favourite music at that time would have been Showaddywaddy, Bill Haley and old T. Rex singles. Unfortunately, my experience of punk was tainted by association with copy-paste urchins and trendy phuckers who would absorb themselves for five minutes in every ensuing drip-fed trend from rude boy to Dexys to Dire Straits. I liked the Jam and the Rezillos but the Pistols had already passed me by. Always appreciated them in retrospect, though. I love this performance.
Tony Wilson. Top man.
Oh my! Johnny really can't sing back then and he still can't today. Who cares? He is and was a great Performer. Unique
Matlock ♥️🇬🇧🤘🙏
We didn't care about anything but the energy and the rejection of all we felt was repressive. The fact it pissed everyone off was a bonus. You can say what you like about Punk, but it was a catalyst that changed everything.
A momentous moment in music history indeed.
From their first TV performance it was clear they were out to annihilate all poser art and mediocrity. Although other prior bands that lead to this moment were "protopunk" and worthy of note the Pistols were absolute pure punk from day one.
They had more edge, even now than all present acts put together.
It was still an act.
Good thing Tony Wilson was paying attention. Thanks Tony. RIP
I met glen matlock...cool and lovely guy! Down to earth and sweet!
ok
GM is a class act. Most talented one of them.
“Bakunin would have loved it.” Now there’s a cheeky little joke for the folks in the back. Love it.
Sex pistols é punk puro!.
Malcolm, Jordan, now Vivienne.. You changed the world and how some of us think.. Rest in Peace now beautiful punkers... 🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️
Absolutely beautiful 😍
Tony Wilson - so great to see him. I only know him from the
Steve Coogan movie. Never understood the public freak-outs about the Pistols, they played good music and didn't sacrifice animals on stage. They were all over the US tv in 1976, they were made out like the children of Satan.
I saw a punk rocker a few days ago he had the sex pistols on the back of his jacket so there's still folk into them🎸
Folk ? 😂😂What you American 😂😂
Saw Matlock play bass for Iggy back in 1980
Watered down Stooges. Long live Iggy.
Not sure if this is "So It Goes" but definitely a Granada production. Say what you want about Tony but my god he knew how to spot trends and nurture them. Love him or hate him, he was a pioneer. And no doubt he was an absolute television natural. Crap businessman, brilliant journalist. As Vini Reilly said "yeah he's a bit of a twat like...but christ he's a clever bastard"
You're damn right that it was So It Goes. Wilson was the north's equivalent of McLaren. You just have to love him. 👍
3:45 looks like the lady had the swastika on her armband covered up for the TV.
Magnificent played a massive influence on my musical tastes growing up as a teen listening to the pistols and others happy days
Saw them in 76 and 77 brilliant