From the outset of the show he was tuning his guitar after every song but never quite get there. And then to hell with it, just start the next song. After that start over and repeat the process. "Now I'll try changing guitars" to the (Les Paul). Nope, didn't work either. Back to the (Thunderbird) and try again.
01:07 God Save The Queen 05:21 I Wanna Be Me 09:28 I'm A Lazy Sod 11:51 New York 15:34 EMI 19:19 Belsen Was A Gas 21:30 Bodies 26:26 Holidays In The Sun 31:00 Liar 35:25 No Feelings 38:35 Problems 43:08 Pretty Vacant 46:39 Anarchy In The UK 50:18 No Fun 56:52 Hahaha! Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
Especially at this gig. John & Steve both had the flu pretty bad, and Sid was ... well, Sid. So Paul was probably the only one in the band healthy enough to be on stage that night. He kept them going.
Sex Pistols - Winterland 01/14/78 (for mobile users) 01:07 God Save The Queen 05:21 I Wanna Be Me 09:28 I'm A Lazy Sod 11:51 New York 15:34 EMI 19:19 Belsen Was A Gas 21:30 Bodies 26:26 Holidays In The Sun 31:00 Liar 35:25 No Feelings 38:35 Problems 43:08 Pretty Vacant 46:39 Anarchy In The UK 50:18 No Fun 56:52 Hahaha! Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
I was there. Crazy, rainy night. The Avengers and the Nuns were the opening acts. Never seen so much shit thrown on a stage in my life -- bras to umbrellas. If memory serves, the ticket was $3.50!
+Rick Petry OMFG 3.50 !? HOLY SHIT. I paid 25€ early this month for PIL in my city XD BUT! Worth it. Lydon is still crazy as fuck, and he learn to sing. XD
max Vicious good ol' daze eh? every generation talks about the good old days. The never ending longing for the romantic, nostalgic days of their lost youth.
Timelist: (without Jonesy's tunings...) 01 - God Save The Queen - 1:10 02 - I Wanna Be Me - 5:22 03 - I'm A Lazy Sod - 9:28 04 - New York - 11:50 05 - EMI - 15:35 06 - Belsen Was A Gas - 19:19 07 - Bodies - 21:32 08 - Holidays In The Sun - 26:28 09 - Liar - 30:58 10 - No Feelings - 35:25 11 - Problems - 38:34 12 - Pretty Vacant - 43:08 13 - Anarchy In The UK - 46:37 14 - No Fun - 50:18
Let’s not forget Steve Jones - it’s he’s guitar 🎸 playing style, like 50s rock n roll but more powerful that made that Sex Pistols sound we all recognize and love
Yes indeed as the years go and I learn more and more about the bands history and dynamic and origins, and esp after reading Lonely Boy, and watching many a Jonesy’s Jukebox interviews on UA-cam I have way way way more reverence and respect for what Steve Jones contribution to rock/punk and ofc Cookie too. Long live the legacy of The Sex Pistols
Yeah, if they had stuck with Glenn Matlock, I’d be curious as to what might have come out, cos Matlock had the songwriting chops and melodic sensibility, while Jones had the raw power and attitude to bounce off of any of that and turn it into something with muscle and interesting. After Matlock left, they unfortunately didn’t really write any good songs…except, of course, “Holidays in the Sun”, but the music is wholeheartedly stolen from The Jam, lol
Lyndon says this was their worst concert but I've watched this 3 or 4 times and each time I can't stop watching it. I truly enjoy watch real, authentic, passionate Art because that is the only Art that is worth watching.
What people enjoy is quite open to criticism. I paint art and like both the most complex paintings done by highly regarded artists and works by amatuers. Tastes vary so to judge this as bad, they are live, not in atsudio, so accept for what it is.@@spikemcpike5029 W
Agreed this was a shitty freak show. Pistols were finished before they even went to America. As stated listen to live recordings with Matlock way fresher and energetic.
my friend please explain me why am i ignorant. i am not a punk fan by the way there are so many other influential bands also like beatles, rolling stones, country joe and the fish, bowie, joy divison, smiths, bauhaus, nirvana and so many others. awaitin you to explain me why am i ignorant
Paul Cook playing his heart out, like a boss player in a team fighting relegation when the others have given up. He knows the end is coming but can hold his head high once its all over.
@@birdybirdy846 yo m8 Yeah. Sids great he was the best sex pistol. And yeah he did it his way. He said he wanted to be an action man..he was to fast to live to young to die. Rip Sid..
@@antyeardsley he looked the part and started off with the right attitude but that whole New York rock star junky ego trip was the beginning of the end, a total waste but good for the Sex Pistols mythology. He started off trying to play bass but his habit prevented him improving and dragged him down, even then he was never going to match Matlock in the musician stakes. Read the books by Jones and Lydon, pretty much tells you the whole story.
Winterland had two cameras mounted on round concrete risers about 50 feet from the stage. I was standing by one of them, stage right. They must have filmed hundreds of shows. My first show there in 1975, they were showing a Montrose concert filmed there, in black and white on a screen behind the stage, before the first act came on.
NMTB was released Oct 28th 1977. This show was 11 weeks and 1 day later. The band were done by the following Monday. 11 weeks from change the world to history and past tense. Stunning.
My mom borrowed my cassette player from my room, I was 10, I had a copy of NMTB that a friend made for me from his album, gotta love cool moms. My mom put the brakes on my seeing Rush,Kiss or several other bands. But she said if they came back later I could see them... She put the kiss of death on them.
God bless whoever uploaded this! After years of hearing Steve Jones and John Lydon lament how this concert was their worst performance ever, it's incredible to see how great they were in spite of Malcolm McClaren's insidious mischief and psychological warfare that demoralized them and caused the band to break up.
Good man Mark, I was 10 in 77 and the pistols made such a huge impact in my life, loved them then, still love them now, be thankful you lived have lived in the 70s.
Haha. I was 13 , The album scared the shit out of me !!! But like all train wrecks …. I couldn’t turn away…. Kept listening to it like watching a horror flick? Being a Californian this addiction was followed by jello Biafras DK!!! Today haven’t heard poignant lyrics since !!! 🤙🏽
Most definitely. Even apart from his specific playing, the fact he was able to hold the band together so well with all going on and Sid “playing” bass is amazing in and of itself. But he was really tight. The galloping with that little extra kick alternating with the bars that follow the guitar in “God Save/No Future”, “Holidays” all through but esp as it starts exploding at fhe end…he wasn’t Topper Headon, but especially when you consider these kids were basically just plucked off the street by a Situationist scammer selecting purely by image and attitude, the musical ability the Jones/Cook combo ended up having is striking (not talking about this show btw, just in general lol)
This starts off a mess, but really gets going a couple of songs in, once the bloke on the sound desk gets his act together and Sid's medication starts to kick in. Great to watch, thanks!
@@krystolmitchell8807 A rebellion against the same thing every generation rebel against. This is nothing new - it only sounds worse and wasted a lot of electricity.
yeah they single-handedly changed the course of music history. Nothing would exist if not for the Pistols: no disco, no reggae, no bad 80's hair metal, no Springsteen, no Madonna, no Prince, no Dead Kennedys, no Talking Heads, no U2, no Slayer or Metallica, no Run DMC or Beastie Boys, no Nirvana or Rage Against the Machine, no Radiohead, no Skrillex, no Jay Z, no Kanye West... The Pistols saved music. Without them, we'd be stuck listening to Barry Manilow crooners until the end of time. They are Gods.
how important? an assembled cast of posers under a corporate banner paving the way for others like RATM? yeah ok. "Give me anarchy!....hey wait a second.... you took my profits! BOLLOCKS! I QUIT!"
Rotten mentioned in a documentary that there were no monitors on stage that day and I'd heard that they had turned Sid's amp off. I can clearly hear the bass and at some point in the video, Steve mentions the monitors are off and then John says "They're on now". They sound amazing! Love this!
Equipment breaking down, a hostile audience, management up to God-knows-what behind the scenes, band relationships soured, and these are very young men to face all that and yet ....... they play the gig! Incredible!
What a great concert. Rotten is extraordinary - he came out of nowhere and generates such vile distaste. No wonder he couldn't sustain it. We were lucky to have him.
Iconic ending. "Bodies" is pure energy! Can you imagine a high-profile band singing "Belsen was a Gas" nowadays?!?!? A band that was here and then gone in basically two years, the Sex Pistols changed both music and culture.
56:52 This was a legend immediately after this show. As in that year. It made the rounds in the music scene worldwide. Everyone heard that Johnny said this but few were there to witness it. That this film exists is a miracle. Priceless cultural artifact.
@@jeremybrackett877 Can't explain it to you. You don't "get it". This band spawned the entire Rock Era 2nd half and many offshoots and styles for the next quarter century and had as much an impact upon the Rock Era as The Beatles. You don't have to like them but the fact of their massive influence is undeniable. NMTB is top 10 greatest Rock l.p. ever.
Cooky keeping time and working his bollocks off. Johnny giving his all as usual. Sid sorting the crowd out introducing Problems and Jonesy absolutely on it. What a band.
I think so, shame it stopped at No.4, God Save (which took longer to grow on me) got to No.1 but wasn't displayed on shop charts, seven years later the same happened to Frankie's "Relax". Banned records can still be hits but not for The Sweet, "Turn It Down" stopped at 41, banned for "For God's sake".
When I came to the states in1979 From Wales a big punk fan. My mom went to record tore to get a punk album for xmas....The ppl at the store were horrified and showed my mom that famous Bambi Pic with all the arrows in Bambi...Funny how ppl thought back then...
haha....steve jones and johnny rotten were the magic of the sex pistols, sid had nothing to do with it aside from an admittedly cool look! they should have kept glen matlock who was a really good songwriter and could actually play bass!
Основатели панк-рока!!!! Слушаем и любим Sex Pistols в России!!!! Это культовая легендарная группа!!!! Жаль, что так мало просуществовала ((((( не повезло им с этим Маклареном((((
this must be their last show? wiki: "On 14 January 1978, during the tour's final date at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, a disillusioned Rotten introduced the band's encore saying, "You'll get one number and one number only 'cause I'm a lazy bastard." That one number was a Stooges cover, "No Fun". At the end of the song, Rotten, kneeling on the stage, chanted an unambiguous declaration, "This is no fun. No fun. This is no fun-at all. No fun." As the final cymbal crash died away, Rotten addressed the audience directly-"Ah-ha-ha. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Good night"-before throwing down his microphone and walking offstage.[158] He later observed, "I felt cheated, and I wasn't going on with it any longer; it was a ridiculous farce. Sid was completely out of his brains-just a waste of space. The whole thing was a joke at that point.... [Malcolm] wouldn't speak to me.... He would not discuss anything with me. But then he would turn around and tell Paul and Steve that the tension was all my fault because I wouldn't agree to anything."[159] On 17 January, the band split"
Whenever I feel down ,…. I watch this show . Knowing perfectly well the circumstances that John and Sid are under ….. and some reason it gives me the courage to deal with what ever stressing me out …, Thanks John for being my absolute favorite frontman
Okay….. sid can’t get heroin so he’s a miserable bastard…, but he’s on a bus with bikers and hells angels to keep these limeys in order …. Malcolm their manager…. Isn’t sending them to NYC or Sanfransisco!!! He’s sending them to the hillbilly south …. Like redneck don’t did this shit!! lol. John is furious…. Like a sheep led into slaughter!!! Great book out there…. By Noel Monk on being there babysitter…. Anyways they do eventually make it to SF and let’s just say it’s there Waterloo…. lol. Check out the book “ 12 days on the road “. 🤙🏽👍🏽
Shure, This is the last show of their American tour. John and sid had to ride in a buss while Malcom flew Paul and Jonsey around in a jet ! Sid was kinking heroin the whole 7 dates…. It was miserable…. But the manager got him a fix !! Johnny the lead singer was left in San Francisco to fend and find his way back to UK !!! I recommend reading the book “ 12 days on the road with the Pistols “ written by their roadie…. Great read if you care . 🤙🏽
yes, sad to know that drummers are the least recognized in rock bands (except Ringo Starr) they are less appreciated, I think because they are less heard on stage, at least harmonious and they are always behind the bassists, guitarists and singers on stage
Sid's not as horrible a bassist as he's legendarily rumored to be. He may not be locking up with Cook, but he's hitting all the roots well, which is a hell of a lot more than a lot of punk bassists to come were doing in a live setting. Viva Sid.
The fact youre all still talking about them and how much they divide opinion speaks volumes for the importance of the Pistols,for us now in our 50's they were the catalyst the voice of a disaffected generation,and John is one of the great frontmen of all time and in real life a genuine, intelligent,funny and sincere bloke.'Public image you got what you wanted,the public image belongs to me'.
I got this album in 1979 and my musical ear has never recovered. Attended Punk in the Park in San Francisco, next is the Pacifica Punk Festival, local talent weekend fest, then off to Las Vegas for Punk Rock Bowling and finally back to SoCal for No Values Punk Festival in Pomona Ca. Punk forever 🖕🏽YeaHHHHHH🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I was 19. I knew a couple people a little older who were there. But at that age, I thought everyone was older than me. Okay, that just me, I didn't have many friends and those I did were older. The whole time I my attention was on the stage, don't recall taking in much about the people around me.
@@maxmartino8979 i wasn't there unfortunately but I can say that this sounds like a recording from the sounddesk. If the guitars were turned loud in the hall, they wouldn't need to be turned up high on the desk to further be amplified, so I hope that's why they are low in this video mix. I can't imagine they would have been that low live... someone remixed the audio of the concert and put it on youtube and it sounds 1000x better - search for Live At Winterland 1978 - REMIXED & REMASTERED HQ AUDIO. ....if that could be matched to this video, it would be awesome
Never, ever have seen this footage before, the first thing that comes to mind, Sid is barely able to keep up. Other than that, they sound pretty damn good.
You know what I've thought this since I first heard the pistols in the early 80s. 'a band that can't play'? That's actually bollocks, they are a tight and solid unit. Even the super fucked up Sid could keep time. Clarifies for me how much of a genius swindle it really was, they are a decent quality band playing something new and original. What wasn't to love
Sid couldn't play but the rest of the band was super tight, Steve Jones had an excellent ear and was an extremely tight player (and he had only been playing guitar for a couple years, lol).....
@@rtl6398 yes actually Malcolm McLaren was fond of saying all the time that the band could hardly play their instruments, in Sids case he was right, lol....
Yep,Sid was my hero back then,I was 14 in '78,padlock round me neck and after school getting in to my combats with zips and chains everywhere,I learned to play bass because of Sid and JJ burnel,im57 now and only listen to punk from the 70's and onwards,tried metal for a bit but nah!."old punk's never die,we just stand at the back"
Sid was a FANTASTIC bassist. Shirtless, bandaged arm, instrument slung low on his thigh, jumping up and down AND throwing great shapes. I'm being serious.
Sid missed so many more notes than hit, wasn’t a very good bassist but did alright for how long he had been playing + how strung out he usually was. He was a great singer though even better than rotten!
John Lydon is on record as saying he wanted to work with Sid after the Pistols broke up but it never happened because Sid was too wasted on heroin and because of Nancy.
pentagonoenllamas yeah, but most other people can do both. It’s expected when you are in a punk band that you should be able to do that shit and also play.
@@pentagonoenllamas Sid could play just fine when he wasn't on a ton of diesel, the trick was hearing Sid play when he wasn't on giant shots of diesel. It's not like their songs took a lot of skill to play. I remember watching a thing on them where Steve Jones shows how he stole the opening riff for Pretty Vacant from an Abba song, that was funny as hell. Edit: I don't see why people say The Sex Pistols couldn't play. Their music is simple, raw, and ballsy and it's supposed to be, that's punk rock. They were proficient at what they did, wrote good punk rock songs, and had talent for their genre and the sound they were going for
@@cthulhu6697 Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlick are all very good musicians, they're good enough to play many styles outside of punk competently.
Wow! This is NOT the notorious crash-and-burn I was told to expect, that it has now been retconned into being in the annals of rock n roll lore. It got off to a rough start, sure, but they all settled in-- Sid especially --quite nicely and finished strong in my opinion. In fact, while Sid was clearly the weakest link and liability for the first 1/4 of the show, he recovered very well, and the weakest link for the last half of the show became Johnny, not Sid, in my opinion. Even Steve hit a few bum notes at times during the middle whereas Sid seemed to settle into a groove with Paul as both were able to keep the beat quite well. Rough? Sure. But Sid doesn't appear as "useless" as the rest of the band labeled him as being during this time. It now appears instead as if Johnny realized he did not want to be here and had already determined he was quitting and flying back home regardless by this point, and that Sid & Malcolm were just the excuses he was waiting for in order to justify his decision.
What the fuck are you talking about, it was pure anger and energy, they had been fucked over by maclaren and they were sick of it all. But they played like nothing was wrong. They don't look like it's over, but Jones and Rotten had already checked out. Long live their music. If you don't get what it was about then I feel sorry for you. It was attitude and it changed not just rock n roll but the whole of western world. Fucking brilliant theatre and reality all roll into one
Listening to this in 1.5 speed is awesome. It's awesome period though. One of my favorite bands. Sure they didn't have the talent of many other bands, but they are very important and I love their sound and style. They influenced so many later bands.
@John Afella Absolute bollocks. They weren't showing up anything of the kind It wasn't meant to last ,it was a one way death cult that was to end like it did, because that was what they were creating for Sid Vicious . He had the balls to carry it through to total apathy disgust and nihilism that it ended as. That's all it was. A short ride. It was never meant to last any longer than it did. At least the version of the band at the time of Sid Vicious on bass. Simply put, Rotten put into words what Vicious was saying and willing to actually live it, and carry it out for real. No bullshit. For a brief moment in time. That's what it was representing . Total self destruction. Nothing more. NOW of course, it's taken a completely different direction. As to what that direction it is meant to be now, only time will tell, but THAT moment in time was about complete destruction ,nothing else. For ONE album-Thats all it was MEANT to be...Being for anything more would have been hypocritical bullshit given what they were saying at the time,it had to be done and lived for real and that's where Vicious came along to see it through. All those 'hope I die before I get old' could now see someone actually doing and living it , not just talking shit. That's why they were such a phenomenon. Because of the genuine sense of impending doom... It was a real exiting yet fucked up time. The papers were full of Pistols stories and we watched in awe as Sid Vicious got well and truly shafted (in more ways than one the poor sod) , to bring about the self destruction he truly represented and still represents today.
Looking back it seems like John knew the ship had sunk already but still gave them a full broadside. Steve and Paul were as they always were, a fecking top-notch beat combo, better than perhaps even they thought. Sid did Sid at 110%, not the best bassist we'll agree, but an essential ingredient in the nihilistic stew. This is a platinum performance, belted out against all the odds. Rock History GOLD! Malcolm, I love yer Buffalo Gals stuff, but honestly feck you for killing this vibe.
Glenn Matlock should have remained the Pistols bassist. He was way better than Sid. Sid did have the attitude, but, as a bassist, was not great, and you need that to propel the band.
@@christopherdavison652 Not only was Glen a better bassist, he was a primary writer on the music side. Bad move for sure but at least the Pistols didn't get a chance to fade away and embarass themselves.
My fave. line has always been “Please don’t be waiting for me” at the end of Holidays in the Sun, and Johnny didn’t do it. EVER GET THE FEELING YOU’VE BEEN CHEATED?
Sound man blew the first song (GSTQ). Couldn’t even hear Steve. But guess what? Take a listen. Sid CAN actually play, contrary to what so many have claimed for so many years. Granted, he’s no John Entwistle but he’s on time (for the most part), in tune and bangin’ out a pretty decent rhythm. And looks like a rock star.
Cliff burton missed notes too resulting in an accidental art wonder in many songs everyone has to remember sid suffered drug addiction and i know from experience dabbling in heroin it screw with you from time to time the missed notes dont reflect the actual talent they have well usually. What do i know really im only 23 years old but sid we can all agree was special and one of a kind until the following bassists that were tryimg to be him. Sid as a topic really sparks up some insightful conversations allows me to keep living up to my infamy as the bigmouth of the UA-cam world
@@somewherefarfaraway9018 Sid wasn't talented. He didn't know shit about music, but he had the charisma and the image that was perfect for Sex Pistols.
@@democracydaily9149 thats bull, sid could play drums for one.. with the banshees. So whats your point? you dont have to be a professor to participate in music!
Actually, the whole thing about Sid not being able to play is bullshit. He could play just fine when he wasn't slam fucked up wasted. Zoe Napalm- that's a half-truth. The Pistols had played several songs already when Johnny was handed a note (probably a "you're too loud/quit playing/some other kind of bullshit) and said the part about being ripped off as they were escorted off stage, security escorted the crowd from the venue, or something like that I think. I was a little kid then and so I wasn't there to say with 100% certainty, but I know a person that was there and they said it was something like that (it was told to me a long time ago, so I can't remember the exact details, but the Pistols did play a few songs at least).
Hey it was 1978. You cannot believe what a breath of fresh air the pistols were back then. The radio was dominated by likes of the Commodores Peter Frampton and Fleetwood Mac. Which compared to today sounds great. Oh how quickly the years pass ! Anyway like I said it was 1978 I was 19 years old it was pretty amazing and a lot of fun back then. I sure hope today's young people are having as much fun as we did but somehow I don't think they are !! On the other hand I envied the people that came up in the 1960s. lol
I wish I were a teenager at this time lucky guy but 1978 I was just fucking 7 years old and I also wish I were at this concert and they all was pretty amazing also SID
I would call the local FM station that played Styx, Kansas, etc. and request Pistols, Clash, Damned, Buzzcocks, etc. just to hear them tell me they didnt even have those records.
@Tessmage Tessera Dire straits and hall and oates were more 80's, 1978 rock radio stations in Los Angeles were mostly playing Boston (more than a feeling), Van Halen (debut album), Cheap Trick (live at budokan) and the one that they played in almost every 10 mins. was Breakfast in America by Super FUCKIN Tramp god I hated that song until this day!
TheNeonRabbit Sacking Matlock was a bad move ,it should be noted that he wrote most of the groups music and all of P.Vacant.Sid bought nothing to the band.
My all time favorite punk ever. I was about 8 years old when the Pistols played in the states. I didn't get it then. I was too young to comprehend any of it. About 6 years later that all changed. The Sex Pistols and The Dead Kennedy's became a HUGE influence in my life. I'm 53 now and I still LOVE this shit and I will till the day I die! RIP Sid....
52 here, not sure if they played in Canada, but 86' was when I stumbled across Sex Pistols and Dead Kennedys. They defined my teens and the mindset I would carry through life. I love them for it
53 here...'Plastic Surgery Disasters' is an amazing record top to bottom! In around 1981, I was 10-11 and at grandmas for the weekend, riding my bike around her neighborhood. There was an armory on the outskirts of her neighborhood that had an unused battle tank that we liked to climb and play on. That day when my friend and I rode our bikes by it, we noticed a LOT of (to us) strange people milling about there. Turns out, it was the Dead Kennedys in town for a show.
I love how Steve was tuning his guitar every 2 songs at full volume..lol
From the outset of the show he was tuning his guitar after every song but never quite get there. And then to hell with it, just start the next song. After that start over and repeat the process. "Now I'll try changing guitars" to the (Les Paul). Nope, didn't work either. Back to the (Thunderbird) and try again.
@@davidkorsrud2873that Les Paul was definitely stolen lol.
Norms.
steve thinks he is elvis presley jejejjajejjjejae
@@Slears true sign of no talent or no brain
11 months later John Lydon was releasing Public Image Limited "First Issue"
Paul Cook, so damn solid, such an underrated drummer
Was just thinking the same thing, he's fucking on point, holding the whole thing together
Paul was keeping shit together this whole set, but what an horrible audio dude, steven should have been much higher in the mix.
If it wasn’t for a good heavy drummer they wouldn’t have been popular
Yeah, considering all the mayhem going on around him, Cook was the right man for this band...solid all around.
yes, thank God we have the most sage society has to offer on every single youtube video pointing out what is underrated
01:07 God Save The Queen
05:21 I Wanna Be Me
09:28 I'm A Lazy Sod
11:51 New York
15:34 EMI
19:19 Belsen Was A Gas
21:30 Bodies
26:26 Holidays In The Sun
31:00 Liar
35:25 No Feelings
38:35 Problems
43:08 Pretty Vacant
46:39 Anarchy In The UK
50:18 No Fun
56:52 Hahaha! Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
Thanks
56:52 The very definition of *"famous last words."*
Last song is called No Fun. Not what you called it. I am almost sure it was a Stooges song.
My Bas, missed the correct one
@@bobl310 It is a Stooges song; first released on their self-titled debut album in 1969.
drummer deserves more credit than he got...
Paul cook is awesome , very modest down to earth guy . Great drummer !
Yup. Nothing at all wrong with Cook's drum abilities. The Pistols were perfect the way they were.
Especially at this gig. John & Steve both had the flu pretty bad, and Sid was ... well, Sid. So Paul was probably the only one in the band healthy enough to be on stage that night. He kept them going.
He was the entire rhtym section
drummer is the ony one that knows whats hes doing
This sounds so bad and so damn good at tha same time. Legends
Exclente descripciòn de lo que son los pistols! Genial tu comentario👊💥👏👍
for real it's true really
that's called punk
they were kids
Basic Punk 101.
Johnny Rotten is an incredible front man. Sarcastic, cynical and with a very original voice. He is the Joker on the stage
Love Johnny Lyndon a legend and a crackup !
MadMopper412 He’s a great man , we all love Sir Rotten 👍👍👍🇦🇺. Cheers !
He is one John Lydon.
Mate, please. The Joker has a poster of John Lydon in his bedroom.
Voice is awful
Was there, I was 21, just found this absolutely fantastic memory
Awesome
Wow that's awesome
about sid's bass line right?
thats awesome man. Best wishes
Could you see or hear about later, mostly what they were throwing on stage?
John Lydon. One of the legendary Voices.
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Sex Pistols - Winterland 01/14/78
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01:07 God Save The Queen
05:21 I Wanna Be Me
09:28 I'm A Lazy Sod
11:51 New York
15:34 EMI
19:19 Belsen Was A Gas
21:30 Bodies
26:26 Holidays In The Sun
31:00 Liar
35:25 No Feelings
38:35 Problems
43:08 Pretty Vacant
46:39 Anarchy In The UK
50:18 No Fun
56:52 Hahaha! Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
Seventeen
Fixed
WARNER: Punk died for the 2nd TIME
Well done lad 👏
Good night
Paul Cook and Steve Jones are real work-horses, they are amazingly tight live
The band that inspired hundreds of other to start bands. True brilliance
Well, yes, but the most influential band of the era were The Ramones. Everyone who attended Ramones concert back then formed a band.
@@samout321 Both bands are already bored. We need to live for today, and not remember every day about the old garbage.
@@ВеняРублёв la basura repetitiva es lo que se hace ahora, a ver qué grupos salen tan personales como los Ramones o los Sex Pistols? NINGUNO
@@noestahechalamielparatuboca Just because they were first ;)
What a sadness
I was there. Crazy, rainy night. The Avengers and the Nuns were the opening acts. Never seen so much shit thrown on a stage in my life -- bras to umbrellas. If memory serves, the ticket was $3.50!
+Rick Petry OMFG 3.50 !? HOLY SHIT. I paid 25€ early this month for PIL in my city XD
BUT! Worth it. Lydon is still crazy as fuck, and he learn to sing. XD
So YOU don't know the difference between the Ramones & SexPistols either???
I'm talking about the ticket price of the good old days
max Vicious good ol' daze eh?
every generation talks about the good old days. The never ending longing for the romantic, nostalgic days of their lost youth.
Rick Petry god bless you
1:09 Rotten's reaction to the fact that Sid did not turn off the bass
Hahaha! He’s like damn it Sid you screwed it up for us all.
What do you mean by "turn off" ? we can clearly hear the bass
@@lordclancharlie1325 sid is actually quite good at this show ..it's fine punk rock bass
Ha haa haaa, wow...
Funny look he gave.
Thank God that's somebody had the foresight to film this with quality camera. History in the making.
thank bill graham rip
True not much footage from the UK
@@jtb1649 two cameras mounted on concrete risers, they had been filming shows there for years. Still, they could have not filmed this, but, they did.
@@lindsaycrawford6540And in color. That was fairly new to Winterland. It was always black and white before.
💯💯💯💯💯💯
Timelist: (without Jonesy's tunings...)
01 - God Save The Queen - 1:10
02 - I Wanna Be Me - 5:22
03 - I'm A Lazy Sod - 9:28
04 - New York - 11:50
05 - EMI - 15:35
06 - Belsen Was A Gas - 19:19
07 - Bodies - 21:32
08 - Holidays In The Sun - 26:28
09 - Liar - 30:58
10 - No Feelings - 35:25
11 - Problems - 38:34
12 - Pretty Vacant - 43:08
13 - Anarchy In The UK - 46:37
14 - No Fun - 50:18
56:52 The very definition of *"famous last words."*
Let’s not forget Steve Jones - it’s he’s guitar 🎸 playing style, like 50s rock n roll but more powerful that made that Sex Pistols sound we all recognize and love
Yes indeed as the years go and I learn more and more about the bands history and dynamic and origins, and esp after reading Lonely Boy, and watching many a Jonesy’s Jukebox interviews on UA-cam I have way way way more reverence and respect for what Steve Jones contribution to rock/punk and ofc Cookie too. Long live the legacy of The Sex Pistols
He actually had a big impact on the rock music that followed this path.
Yeah, if they had stuck with Glenn Matlock, I’d be curious as to what might have come out, cos Matlock had the songwriting chops and melodic sensibility, while Jones had the raw power and attitude to bounce off of any of that and turn it into something with muscle and interesting. After Matlock left, they unfortunately didn’t really write any good songs…except, of course, “Holidays in the Sun”, but the music is wholeheartedly stolen from The Jam, lol
Lyndon says this was their worst concert but I've watched this 3 or 4 times and each time I can't stop watching it. I truly enjoy watch real, authentic, passionate Art because that is the only Art that is worth watching.
Listen to some of the live recordings from 76 with Matlock. A million times better than this shitty freakshow.
"Art" well, art means "skill" from the Latin "Ars", and if sounding like excrement is a skill, then this is indeed some fine art.
What people enjoy is quite open to criticism. I paint art and like both the most complex paintings done by highly regarded artists and works by amatuers. Tastes vary so to judge this as bad, they are live, not in atsudio, so accept for what it is.@@spikemcpike5029 W
Agreed this was a shitty freak show. Pistols were finished before they even went to America. As stated listen to live recordings with Matlock way fresher and energetic.
I don't know if that was just a typo... His name is John Lydon... aside from that I 100% agree with you!
among the ten most influential bands of all time
BULLSHIT I SAY
ENLIGHT US WITH YOUR MOST INFLUENCIAL DEAR GOD GERT BECAUSE WE ARE ALL TALK BULLSHIT
SPREAD YOUR DIVINE MUSIC TASTE UPON ALL OF US THE IGNORANT
I don"t have the time today my friend but I would like to say how sorry I am that so your so very ignorant!
my friend please explain me why am i ignorant.
i am not a punk fan by the way
there are so many other influential bands also like beatles, rolling stones, country joe and the fish, bowie, joy divison, smiths, bauhaus, nirvana and so many others.
awaitin you to explain me why am i ignorant
Number 1
Sid's backing vocals sounded awesome on EMI, they crushed that one
Yes! Sid had a great voice!
Didn't think he played bass bad ether...Considering he's a beginner on smack and playing to a big crowd love the Fucking Pistols...
@@gdr205 sid was clean here, no smack could be found on the us tour
Only backing vocals I heard were Jonesy's. As far as Sid's bass playing goes... they missed Glen.
Glenn is better but Sid may had been the vocalist after Rotten if things had gone a different route
Paul Cook playing his heart out, like a boss player in a team fighting relegation when the others have given up. He knows the end is coming but can hold his head high once its all over.
Underrated comment
If that isn't an accurate portrayal of a drummer, idk what is.
Well said!
Brilliantly put
By far the soundest of the bunch.
Here they are... ¡The Sex Pistols!
Sid: **Starts playing Blitzkrieg Bop**
Kind of Blitzkrieg Bop and Loudmouth 😂
He loved the Ramones
Who said Sid couldn't play? Rubbish
@@birdybirdy846 yo m8 Yeah.
Sids great he was the best sex pistol.
And yeah he did it his way.
He said he wanted to be an action man..he was to fast to live to young to die.
Rip Sid..
@@antyeardsley he looked the part and started off with the right attitude but that whole New York rock star junky ego trip was the beginning of the end, a total waste but good for the Sex Pistols mythology. He started off trying to play bass but his habit prevented him improving and dragged him down, even then he was never going to match Matlock in the musician stakes. Read the books by Jones and Lydon, pretty much tells you the whole story.
Thank god some people had the sense to film this defining moment in Pistols history.
Winterland had two cameras mounted on round concrete risers about 50 feet from the stage. I was standing by one of them, stage right. They must have filmed hundreds of shows. My first show there in 1975, they were showing a Montrose concert filmed there, in black and white on a screen behind the stage, before the first act came on.
Sid is in the Rock Hall. LOL
@@vistalite He could plunk with attitude. RIP
In music history!
its fucking brilliant
I was 9yrs old in '77.
I loved the Sex Pistols then.
I'm 55yrs old now.
I still love and listen to them.
I’m 53 was 7 in 77’ I hear you brother!
I’m 63 and lm still hooked on them.
I know l am stuck in the past. I just can’t get the pistols and the bands in 77. Don’t get me started on the stooges first albums.
@@greenguyron Ron, I’d rather be stuck in the past than be present in the future.
@@David-dt3ge i was 7 to in 77 bro 'Sydney au. ps when the name david was popular lol
Bodies is a fucking classic that will never get old
Lydon's face when he realises Sid is actually going to play 😂
Good thing he did play...you couldn't hear Jone's guitar at all at first.
I love the generally shitty sound quality as it just goes to show that production quality isn’t everything and personality has a massive impact
SOOOOOOOOOOO TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!
Love that swing drumming by Paul Cook !
NMTB was released Oct 28th 1977.
This show was 11 weeks and 1 day later.
The band were done by the following Monday.
11 weeks from change the world to history and past tense.
Stunning.
My mom borrowed my cassette player from my room, I was 10, I had a copy of NMTB that a friend made for me from his album, gotta love cool moms. My mom put the brakes on my seeing Rush,Kiss or several other bands. But she said if they came back later I could see them... She put the kiss of death on them.
That's what rock'n'roll is supposed to be. It comes and it goes.
I can't complain. Sid's bass playing skills are wayyy better than mine lmao
🤣🤣🤣an honest comment if I've ever seen one. Nice one🤣🤣🤣
however, he got the swing
and hes bass was unplugged lol
@@akdmdnmsmw4993 not for this performance, this was him playing live
@@akdmdnmsmw4993 24:22 "hes bass was unplugged"
John's vocal is brilliant..love the pistols one of the best bands ever..
God bless whoever uploaded this! After years of hearing Steve Jones and John Lydon lament how this concert was their worst performance ever, it's incredible to see how great they were in spite of Malcolm McClaren's insidious mischief and psychological warfare that demoralized them and caused the band to break up.
This gig is fkin amazing, blistering performance. Truly superb in my opinion, proper kick ass
Yeah they actually did good harmonies
1:05 Johnny Rotten captured in one shot, brilliant, cheeky, genius, couldn't give a fuck front man!! Until his lyrics came then gave 120% everytime.
i don't care what the general consensus is, I love this show.
Damn right. This version of Bodies is bloody great :)
Agreed, johnny was amazing, I love his fuck you attitude and hilarious sarcasm...
Legendary show......
I got given a copy of NMTB when I was 11....changed me forever, I still listen to it regularly now and I’m 51
Good man Mark, I was 10 in 77 and the pistols made such a huge impact in my life, loved them then, still love them now, be thankful you lived have lived in the 70s.
Haha. I was 13 , The album scared the shit out of me !!! But like all train wrecks …. I couldn’t turn away…. Kept listening to it like watching a horror flick? Being a Californian this addiction was followed by jello Biafras DK!!! Today haven’t heard poignant lyrics since !!! 🤙🏽
I didn't hear it until 1985 at age 14. My friend and I were obsessed and started a Pistols cover duo...
Cook is massively underrated as a drummer
Oh yea ? How so ?
extremely solid time keeper
It'sreally true. In the second part of EMI, he did an interesting job, for example. I didn't realize how good it turned out.
Most definitely. Even apart from his specific playing, the fact he was able to hold the band together so well with all going on and Sid “playing” bass is amazing in and of itself. But he was really tight. The galloping with that little extra kick alternating with the bars that follow the guitar in “God Save/No Future”, “Holidays” all through but esp as it starts exploding at fhe end…he wasn’t Topper Headon, but especially when you consider these kids were basically just plucked off the street by a Situationist scammer selecting purely by image and attitude, the musical ability the Jones/Cook combo ended up having is striking (not talking about this show btw, just in general lol)
This starts off a mess, but really gets going a couple of songs in, once the bloke on the sound desk gets his act together and Sid's medication starts to kick in. Great to watch, thanks!
I bet we don't realize how important this band was and how important this show was.
The doors of rebellion were already open, but the Pistols kicked them off their hinges. What a beautiful, human, thing going on here.
@@krystolmitchell8807 A rebellion against the same thing every generation rebel against. This is nothing new - it only sounds worse and wasted a lot of electricity.
yeah they single-handedly changed the course of music history. Nothing would exist if not for the Pistols: no disco, no reggae, no bad 80's hair metal, no Springsteen, no Madonna, no Prince, no Dead Kennedys, no Talking Heads, no U2, no Slayer or Metallica, no Run DMC or Beastie Boys, no Nirvana or Rage Against the Machine, no Radiohead, no Skrillex, no Jay Z, no Kanye West... The Pistols saved music. Without them, we'd be stuck listening to Barry Manilow crooners until the end of time. They are Gods.
@@carlmarks8170 RAMONES!
how important? an assembled cast of posers under a corporate banner paving the way for others like RATM? yeah ok.
"Give me anarchy!....hey wait a second.... you took my profits! BOLLOCKS! I QUIT!"
Rotten mentioned in a documentary that there were no monitors on stage that day and I'd heard that they had turned Sid's amp off. I can clearly hear the bass and at some point in the video, Steve mentions the monitors are off and then John says "They're on now". They sound amazing! Love this!
I didn't know such a professional concert of the Pistols had ever been recorded. This is fantastic rock & roll.
there is also the texas ballroom on youtube
he stayed with the les pauls so there was no tuning issues like this show ua-cam.com/video/bU8s6_soJDg/v-deo.htmlsi=5uthROvp0XDOvomx
This was their last show
Johnny Rotten is adorable and Sid is very impressive. Love this music!
Equipment breaking down, a hostile audience, management up to God-knows-what behind the scenes, band relationships soured, and these are very young men to face all that and yet ....... they play the gig! Incredible!
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Listening to the lyrics nearly 45 years later and nothing has changed really,
Johnny wrote all those lyrics at 19 yrs of age !!! WTF 🤙🏽
Sid's bass on Liar was top drawer , best ive heard him play !
“This song is about you, it’s called Problems.”
Never realized how bad Sid was on bass.
.... drugs didn't help. This mix is awful too, so you have a completely naked picture of the band detoriated into a shadow of itself.
Sid did drugs???
lol yeah
I was going to comment that I didn't realise he ever got this GOOD
what was that band around his arm u think? LOL
What a great concert. Rotten is extraordinary - he came out of nowhere and generates such vile distaste. No wonder he couldn't sustain it. We were lucky to have him.
Martin Braonain Couldn’t sustain it? Dude is still touring 40 years later!
hellion99 Talking about the Pistols? i know mate dont quite know why i typed that mustve been drunk
KYLEDAKILLA BEATS Talking about John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten
hellion99 fokn righ on mate i know more than u do
KYLEDAKILLA BEATS sure, ok, whatever
Iconic ending. "Bodies" is pure energy! Can you imagine a high-profile band singing "Belsen was a Gas" nowadays?!?!? A band that was here and then gone in basically two years, the Sex Pistols changed both music and culture.
56:52
This was a legend immediately after this show. As in that year. It made the rounds in the music scene worldwide.
Everyone heard that Johnny said this but few were there to witness it.
That this film exists is a miracle.
Priceless cultural artifact.
What was he inferring to? The concert or Sid?
This is horrible I wished they would lost it. Sorry bro that's not music. Not a bit of talent in any of them.
@@jeremybrackett877 no sabes nada de rock y menos sobre Punk si crees que sólo se trata sobre talento o virtud musical. Mente pobre...
@@jeremybrackett877 jeremy brackett probably listens to migos xD
@@jeremybrackett877
Can't explain it to you.
You don't "get it".
This band spawned the entire Rock Era 2nd half and many offshoots and styles for the next quarter century and had as much an impact upon the Rock Era as The Beatles.
You don't have to like them but the fact of their massive influence is undeniable.
NMTB is top 10 greatest Rock l.p. ever.
Init crazy it’s like 40 years ago but you can almost feel the bad vibe through the video
I waited 40 years to see this... It's exactly liked I'd imagined it would be. Stoned, chaotic rock and roll... Exactly like its meant to be
Ne o 50 . E si guardo. .... QUESTO. . trovami di MEGLIO
Came to hear plugged-in Sid 🤘
Cooky keeping time and working his bollocks off. Johnny giving his all as usual. Sid sorting the crowd out introducing Problems and Jonesy absolutely on it. What a band.
Agreed, magnificent innit.. 👍
I know it’s 3 later but I read cocky so many times 😭
this is the last band I would be expecting to see spend time on tuning their guitars on stage
Sonic Youth done it for them instead
Pretty vacant has got to be one of the best songs ever written.
Written so the guys should shout "cunt" on TV and radio.
There’s a concert on here in 2007 in London. Pretty Vacant is phenomenal. They are way tighter.
is that an emo haircut
I think so, shame it stopped at No.4, God Save (which took longer to grow on me) got to No.1 but wasn't displayed on shop charts, seven years later the same happened to Frankie's "Relax". Banned records can still be hits but not for The Sweet, "Turn It Down" stopped at 41, banned for "For God's sake".
@@BigBadJohn5358 "...God Save (which took longer to grow on me)...": I hope it wasn't longer than an hour--
Los más grandes,cambiaron la historia del rock & roll con un solo disco....GOD SAVE THE SEX PISTOLS!!!!!!!¡
Мне уже 34. Слушаю sex pistols лет с 9. И до сих пор тащусь от них. Спасибо моему папе, что познакомил с ними.
Потому что честно играют и честно поют о настоящих проблемах
I've been listening to them since i was 7 and now i'm 18..life is fast and short
Я первый раз в десять лет услышал. Сейчас 41 год.
Смотрю и слушаю всегда с удовольствием
Мне 19 я слушаю обажаю панк.
Тебе уже 34? Мне вот 62 и я слушаю их с удовольствием.
Tight band. Steve J wonderful on guitar. Sid even contributing in parts.
To think that my parents were scared of me listening to this in 1979.... It seems almost wholesome now.
When I came to the states in1979 From Wales a big punk fan. My mom went to record tore to get a punk album for xmas....The ppl at the store were horrified and showed my mom that famous Bambi Pic with all the arrows in Bambi...Funny how ppl thought back then...
Thank you very much for share the show, and put the timestamps of the songs. 😊 😎
the bass guitar is too loud, MORE STEVE!! We came to see Sid, not to hear him.
@@dner75-xh9le missing a couple chromosomes or just 1 healthy relationship with your mother?
the mix gets better after the first song.
LOL...how fucked up.! and yet I still respect this band.
Bass guitars are usually unknown sounds to those who ent into their music n shit. I’m actually impressed how it’s louder.
haha....steve jones and johnny rotten were the magic of the sex pistols, sid had nothing to do with it aside from an admittedly cool look! they should have kept glen matlock who was a really good songwriter and could actually play bass!
I was there, in the audience. It was actually a GREAT show.
John Shirley and it was their last show.
John Shirley Wickedly Cool!! :) :)
+John Shirley I'll bet it was !!!
John Shirley I'm truly envious (in a nice way). Oh! But to have a "Concert Time Machine"-I'd go see Crass, too!!
Amber Amber
Me too
Love how Johnny is blatantly mocking the audience and implying how they pretty much wasted their money on garbage. Lmao
"IF YOU CAN PUT UP WI THAT, YOU CAN PUT UP WI ANYTHING"
He doesn't like to be called Johnny he likes to be called John
@@sheilaisaacs981 like he ever cares about what anybody else says.
@@OrangeYTT that was from the sid and nancy movie lol
if you are talking about the 'cheated' comment, he is talking about himself and the band.
Основатели панк-рока!!!! Слушаем и любим Sex Pistols в России!!!! Это культовая легендарная группа!!!! Жаль, что так мало просуществовала ((((( не повезло им с этим Маклареном((((
Привет из Москвы! Панкам ХОЙ!! 🤘🤘🤘
Может и повезло с Маклареном, иначе никто бы не узнал, супер популярность пришла на ТВ благодаря ему
@@akibby 🤣похож на нашего Разина, который известный коллектив крутил, но не панк конечно))
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this must be their last show?
wiki:
"On 14 January 1978, during the tour's final date at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, a disillusioned Rotten introduced the band's encore saying, "You'll get one number and one number only 'cause I'm a lazy bastard." That one number was a Stooges cover, "No Fun". At the end of the song, Rotten, kneeling on the stage, chanted an unambiguous declaration, "This is no fun. No fun. This is no fun-at all. No fun." As the final cymbal crash died away, Rotten addressed the audience directly-"Ah-ha-ha. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Good night"-before throwing down his microphone and walking offstage.[158] He later observed, "I felt cheated, and I wasn't going on with it any longer; it was a ridiculous farce. Sid was completely out of his brains-just a waste of space. The whole thing was a joke at that point.... [Malcolm] wouldn't speak to me.... He would not discuss anything with me. But then he would turn around and tell Paul and Steve that the tension was all my fault because I wouldn't agree to anything."[159]
On 17 January, the band split"
Copy & paste
Maximino77 you’re right on top of things. Keep up the good work sir
Sound check Sept 78...
The most burning version of No fun ever.
@@rustyFishstick : ???
These are on my time machine gig list to go back and watch
great vocals, nothing touches this and i mean that man!!!!
Whenever I feel down ,…. I watch this show . Knowing perfectly well the circumstances that John and Sid are under ….. and some reason it gives me the courage to deal with what ever stressing me out …, Thanks John for being my absolute favorite frontman
Can you fill me in? What circumstances are John and Sid under? I'd appreciate it if you could let me know.
Okay….. sid can’t get heroin so he’s a miserable bastard…, but he’s on a bus with bikers and hells angels to keep these limeys in order …. Malcolm their manager…. Isn’t sending them to NYC or Sanfransisco!!! He’s sending them to the hillbilly south …. Like redneck don’t did this shit!! lol. John is furious…. Like a sheep led into slaughter!!! Great book out there…. By Noel Monk on being there babysitter…. Anyways they do eventually make it to SF and let’s just say it’s there Waterloo…. lol. Check out the book “ 12 days on the road “. 🤙🏽👍🏽
Shure, This is the last show of their American tour. John and sid had to ride in a buss while Malcom flew Paul and Jonsey around in a jet ! Sid was kinking heroin the whole 7 dates…. It was miserable…. But the manager got him a fix !! Johnny the lead singer was left in San Francisco to fend and find his way back to UK !!! I recommend reading the book “ 12 days on the road with the Pistols “ written by their roadie…. Great read if you care . 🤙🏽
Paul Cook = Very underrated- he was/ is a great drummer. Check out Seventeen, New York and Holidays in the Sun- you know which parts
yes, sad to know that drummers are the least recognized in rock bands (except Ringo Starr) they are less appreciated, I think because they are less heard on stage, at least harmonious and they are always behind the bassists, guitarists and singers on stage
and except Bonzo
Sid's not as horrible a bassist as he's legendarily rumored to be. He may not be locking up with Cook, but he's hitting all the roots well, which is a hell of a lot more than a lot of punk bassists to come were doing in a live setting. Viva Sid.
i agree.he wasnt half as bad as people say.these recordings prove it
The fact youre all still talking about them and how much they divide opinion speaks volumes for the importance of the Pistols,for us now in our 50's they were the catalyst the voice of a disaffected generation,and John is one of the great frontmen of all time and in real life a genuine, intelligent,funny and sincere bloke.'Public image you got what you wanted,the public image belongs to me'.
lmao
I got this album in 1979 and my musical ear has never recovered. Attended Punk in the Park in San Francisco, next is the Pacifica Punk Festival, local talent weekend fest, then off to Las Vegas for Punk Rock Bowling and finally back to SoCal for No Values Punk Festival in Pomona Ca. Punk forever 🖕🏽YeaHHHHHH🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Sex Pistols and The Ramones are my favorite punk band eversince.
I was there!...incredible show! I was 17....
Hi Eddie!!! In your opinion is the sound of this video good? Does it captures the power of that concert? Jones guitar seems too low in the mix
I was 19. I knew a couple people a little older who were there. But at that age, I thought everyone was older than me. Okay, that just me, I didn't have many friends and those I did were older. The whole time I my attention was on the stage, don't recall taking in much about the people around me.
@@maxmartino8979 i wasn't there unfortunately but I can say that this sounds like a recording from the sounddesk. If the guitars were turned loud in the hall, they wouldn't need to be turned up high on the desk to further be amplified, so I hope that's why they are low in this video mix. I can't imagine they would have been that low live... someone remixed the audio of the concert and put it on youtube and it sounds 1000x better - search for Live At Winterland 1978 - REMIXED & REMASTERED HQ AUDIO. ....if that could be matched to this video, it would be awesome
Bodies is THE best Punk song every written - pure fucking class!!!!!!!!!!
The story behind the song is fucking wild. Look it up..
Never, ever have seen this footage before, the first thing that comes to mind, Sid is barely able to keep up. Other than that, they sound pretty damn good.
You know what I've thought this since I first heard the pistols in the early 80s. 'a band that can't play'? That's actually bollocks, they are a tight and solid unit. Even the super fucked up Sid could keep time. Clarifies for me how much of a genius swindle it really was, they are a decent quality band playing something new and original. What wasn't to love
Lol
Sid couldn't play but the rest of the band was super tight, Steve Jones had an excellent ear and was an extremely tight player (and he had only been playing guitar for a couple years, lol).....
No one ever said the original line-up on the album couldn't play. The claim is that Sid couldn't and this video is proof he couldn't.
@@rtl6398 Ok..SO????
@@rtl6398 yes actually Malcolm McLaren was fond of saying all the time that the band could hardly play their instruments, in Sids case he was right, lol....
Sid seemed so cool in my youth. As an adult he needed love.
That and getting off the junk.
He just needed a hug. Someone without dope needless and switchblades
He was a young dolt.
Ruined a damn good band.
So goes the tale of many legends.
Yep,Sid was my hero back then,I was 14 in '78,padlock round me neck and after school getting in to my combats with zips and chains everywhere,I learned to play bass because of Sid and JJ burnel,im57 now and only listen to punk from the 70's and onwards,tried metal for a bit but nah!."old punk's never die,we just stand at the back"
This band rocked my world!
Belsen was a Gas was a great performance at this gig, sounded brilliant. The whole gig is bloody excellent to be fair 👍🏻
Sid was a FANTASTIC bassist. Shirtless, bandaged arm, instrument slung low on his thigh, jumping up and down AND throwing great shapes. I'm being serious.
Simon Lout sounds a lot like Dee Dee
@@outtathyme5679 Yep. If you're gonna steal...steal from the best !
Sid missed so many more notes than hit, wasn’t a very good bassist but did alright for how long he had been playing + how strung out he usually was. He was a great singer though even better than rotten!
John Lydon is on record as saying he wanted to work with Sid after the Pistols broke up but it never happened because Sid was too wasted on heroin and because of Nancy.
Bandaged because of tracks, still love the attitude
Sid could indeed play at a very basic level, most of the sloppiness and mistakes happen when he jumps and dances and all that stage bullshit.
pentagonoenllamas yeah, but most other people can do both. It’s expected when you are in a punk band that you should be able to do that shit and also play.
Yes but what I'm nulling is the argument that he couldn't play AT ALL. He could play, just under more restricted conditions like the beginner he was.
@@pentagonoenllamas Sid could play just fine when he wasn't on a ton of diesel, the trick was hearing Sid play when he wasn't on giant shots of diesel. It's not like their songs took a lot of skill to play. I remember watching a thing on them where Steve Jones shows how he stole the opening riff for Pretty Vacant from an Abba song, that was funny as hell.
Edit: I don't see why people say The Sex Pistols couldn't play. Their music is simple, raw, and ballsy and it's supposed to be, that's punk rock. They were proficient at what they did, wrote good punk rock songs, and had talent for their genre and the sound they were going for
@@cthulhu6697 Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlick are all very good musicians, they're good enough to play many styles outside of punk competently.
@@pentagonoenllamas And I agree
"Будущего нет" - гимн. Мягкого вам потустороннего мира. Сид Вишес вообще страшно сказать в 21 ушел, жить еще мальчик не начинал, а уже помер.
Rotten is absolutely superb here! One of the all time great vocal performances in Rock history..
Thank God it was recorded.. Well!
That the Ramones recorded It's Alive 2 weeks prior is incredible.
Brilliance everywhere.
Wow! This is NOT the notorious crash-and-burn I was told to expect, that it has now been retconned into being in the annals of rock n roll lore. It got off to a rough start, sure, but they all settled in-- Sid especially --quite nicely and finished strong in my opinion.
In fact, while Sid was clearly the weakest link and liability for the first 1/4 of the show, he recovered very well, and the weakest link for the last half of the show became Johnny, not Sid, in my opinion. Even Steve hit a few bum notes at times during the middle whereas Sid seemed to settle into a groove with Paul as both were able to keep the beat quite well.
Rough? Sure. But Sid doesn't appear as "useless" as the rest of the band labeled him as being during this time. It now appears instead as if Johnny realized he did not want to be here and had already determined he was quitting and flying back home regardless by this point, and that Sid & Malcolm were just the excuses he was waiting for in order to justify his decision.
I get the feeling it’s a middle of the road show. I’ve seen worse and I’ve seen better on UA-cam from the Pistols
What the fuck are you talking about, it was pure anger and energy, they had been fucked over by maclaren and they were sick of it all. But they played like nothing was wrong.
They don't look like it's over, but Jones and Rotten had already checked out.
Long live their music.
If you don't get what it was about then I feel sorry for you.
It was attitude and it changed not just rock n roll but the whole of western world.
Fucking brilliant theatre and reality all roll into one
(56:52) "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" classic...
Yeah. All the bloody time
Why ‘cheated’ ?
That was a good lengthy set I thought
Or was this filmed over a few nights ?
Viz... Are you being ironic or does Mr lydons meaning completely pass u by. 👽👽👽👽👽👽👽
Johnny knew they were finished after this, they broke up,
@@cudapaul957 You don't say? Wow. Big news.
The most EPIC ending to a music band ever! Had to be a punk band. Only the Sex Pistols! Thank you.
Listening to this in 1.5 speed is awesome. It's awesome period though. One of my favorite bands. Sure they didn't have the talent of many other bands, but they are very important and I love their sound and style. They influenced so many later bands.
+degree7 buzzcocks were from manchester too
+jared _ and The Fall.
@John Afella Absolute bollocks.
They weren't showing up anything of the kind It wasn't meant to last ,it was a one way death cult that was to end like it did, because that was what they were creating for Sid Vicious .
He had the balls to carry it through to total apathy disgust and nihilism that it ended as.
That's all it was.
A short ride.
It was never meant to last any longer than it did.
At least the version of the band at the time of Sid Vicious on bass.
Simply put, Rotten put into words what Vicious was saying and willing to actually live it, and carry it out for real.
No bullshit. For a brief moment in time.
That's what it was representing . Total self destruction. Nothing more.
NOW of course, it's taken a completely different direction. As to what that direction it is meant to be now, only time will tell, but THAT moment in time was about complete destruction ,nothing else.
For ONE album-Thats all it was MEANT to be...Being for anything more would have been hypocritical bullshit given what they were saying at the time,it had to be done and lived for real and that's where Vicious came along to see it through.
All those 'hope I die before I get old' could now see someone actually doing and living it , not just talking shit.
That's why they were such a phenomenon.
Because of the genuine sense of impending doom... It was a real exiting yet fucked up time.
The papers were full of Pistols stories and we watched in awe as Sid Vicious got well and truly shafted (in more ways than one the poor sod) , to bring about the self destruction he truly represented and still represents today.
Looking back it seems like John knew the ship had sunk already but still gave them a full broadside. Steve and Paul were as they always were, a fecking top-notch beat combo, better than perhaps even they thought. Sid did Sid at 110%, not the best bassist we'll agree, but an essential ingredient in the nihilistic stew. This is a platinum performance, belted out against all the odds. Rock History GOLD! Malcolm, I love yer Buffalo Gals stuff, but honestly feck you for killing this vibe.
ありがとう （╹◡╹）
Glenn Matlock should have remained the Pistols bassist. He was way better than Sid. Sid did have the attitude, but, as a bassist, was not great, and you need that to propel the band.
The intro to Liar says it all
@@christopherdavison652 Not only was Glen a better bassist, he was a primary writer on the music side. Bad move for sure but at least the Pistols didn't get a chance to fade away and embarass themselves.
My fave. line has always been “Please don’t be waiting for me” at the end of Holidays in the Sun, and Johnny didn’t do it.
EVER GET THE FEELING YOU’VE BEEN CHEATED?
Sound man blew the first song (GSTQ). Couldn’t even hear Steve. But guess what? Take a listen. Sid CAN actually play, contrary to what so many have claimed for so many years. Granted, he’s no John Entwistle but he’s on time (for the most part), in tune and bangin’ out a pretty decent rhythm. And looks like a rock star.
This are the notes that sid missed
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Only 10? Jesus Christ..
@@Ekstaasi23 lmao we need some likes
Cliff burton missed notes too resulting in an accidental art wonder in many songs everyone has to remember sid suffered drug addiction and i know from experience dabbling in heroin it screw with you from time to time the missed notes dont reflect the actual talent they have well usually. What do i know really im only 23 years old but sid we can all agree was special and one of a kind until the following bassists that were tryimg to be him. Sid as a topic really sparks up some insightful conversations allows me to keep living up to my infamy as the bigmouth of the UA-cam world
@@somewherefarfaraway9018 Sid wasn't talented. He didn't know shit about music, but he had the charisma and the image that was perfect for Sex Pistols.
@@democracydaily9149 thats bull, sid could play drums for one.. with the banshees. So whats your point? you dont have to be a professor to participate in music!
Sid's brilliant bass playing out front and on full display. What a virtuoso.
+Edward Bernayse666 Ohhh I heard from my dad he just said Ever feel like you've been ripped off? then they left without playing a single song
what? lol he was pathetic.
That incident is famous. But they did play a few songs.
haha, yeah, he was the mozart of bass players
Actually, the whole thing about Sid not being able to play is bullshit. He could play just fine when he wasn't slam fucked up wasted.
Zoe Napalm- that's a half-truth. The Pistols had played several songs already when Johnny was handed a note (probably a "you're too loud/quit playing/some other kind of bullshit) and said the part about being ripped off as they were escorted off stage, security escorted the crowd from the venue, or something like that I think. I was a little kid then and so I wasn't there to say with 100% certainty, but I know a person that was there and they said it was something like that (it was told to me a long time ago, so I can't remember the exact details, but the Pistols did play a few songs at least).
40 years on and still no-one can make a guitar sound as good as Steve Jones.
Mick Mars
Thunders by far
He was Jones' idol
@@oliverkalamata2753 Thunders could if he hadn`t been dead for decades
Yeah ,how good was Steve Jones one of the best I think , loved all of them man !
@@michaelharris4651 As Steve said on (I think) The Great RnR Swindle record...."Hold on......give it some BOLLOCKS!!!"
Saw these guys in 1978 ! Was 14 great show ! 60 and still enjoy a listen ! Sid was a mad man
Hey it was 1978. You cannot believe what a breath of fresh air the pistols were back then. The radio was dominated by likes of the Commodores Peter Frampton and Fleetwood Mac. Which compared to today sounds great. Oh how quickly the years pass ! Anyway like I said it was 1978 I was 19 years old it was pretty amazing and a lot of fun back then. I sure hope today's young people are having as much fun as we did but somehow I don't think they are !! On the other hand I envied the people that came up in the 1960s. lol
I wish I were a teenager at this time lucky guy but 1978 I was just fucking 7 years old and I also wish I were at this concert and they all was pretty amazing also SID
I would call the local FM station that played Styx, Kansas, etc. and request Pistols, Clash, Damned, Buzzcocks, etc. just to hear them tell me they didnt even have those records.
@Tessmage Tessera Dire straits and hall and oates were more 80's, 1978 rock radio stations in Los Angeles were mostly playing Boston (more than a feeling), Van Halen (debut album), Cheap Trick (live at budokan) and the one that they played in almost every 10 mins. was Breakfast in America by Super FUCKIN Tramp god I hated that song until this day!
You are so right.
Oh right, it was "having fun" during your time, but when it's my generation it's "what a bunch of idiots." Okay lady!
Paul Cook once said this was the worst gig they ever did.
+electricleg and it's Great!
+electricleg BULLSHIT!!!! he said it 7 times....
The sound is shit, Sid is off, Steve isn't even present.
Sid was always off. He wasn't in the band because he was a good bass player.
TheNeonRabbit
Sacking Matlock was a bad move ,it should be noted that he wrote most of the groups music and all of P.Vacant.Sid bought nothing to the band.
My all time favorite punk ever. I was about 8 years old when the Pistols played in the states. I didn't get it then. I was too young to comprehend any of it. About 6 years later that all changed. The Sex Pistols and The Dead Kennedy's became a HUGE influence in my life. I'm 53 now and I still LOVE this shit and I will till the day I die! RIP Sid....
52 here, not sure if they played in Canada, but 86' was when I stumbled across Sex Pistols and Dead Kennedys. They defined my teens and the mindset I would carry through life. I love them for it
@@asha.m On 86, they were no genuine SeX PiStOlS, but Just them Shadow.
53 here...'Plastic Surgery Disasters' is an amazing record top to bottom! In around 1981, I was 10-11 and at grandmas for the weekend, riding my bike around her neighborhood. There was an armory on the outskirts of her neighborhood that had an unused battle tank that we liked to climb and play on. That day when my friend and I rode our bikes by it, we noticed a LOT of (to us) strange people milling about there. Turns out, it was the Dead Kennedys in town for a show.
What a privilege to be able to watch this so clearly from their time back then!