Theres an argument that this particular reunion was amongst the greatest ever in terms of the live shows, truly phenomenonal stuff, sounded as good as they ever did and made the music sound vital and primal again. Superb
No band or album affected me like this one did. As a 15 year old kid, nothing came close. As a pushing 60 man, nothing has ever come close, and I don't think anything ever will. Punk started and finished with the Pistols. When John went, everything else to do with punk went too, for me, at least. Bollocks is the best album ever created, by the best band ever to exist.
@Gav Brady: Look . . . I like Steve Jones as much as you do. But it's just not correct to say that the lead guitar can be the glue of a band. It's drums or bass . . .
QED it’s Rhythm guitar actually 95% of the time and their is no real bass line in it, just the guitar riff played on one string basically. Steve and Paul are everything in the sex pistols coz they taught themselves and that’s what usually happens, you develop a unique and great style of playing in the process
@@mjh5437 Wrong. He's had a career in music his entire adult life: solo, Rich Kids, Ron Wood and the Faces, Iggy, etc. - which is what he wanted, to be a lifelong working musician making music he liked. That he got briefly famous, or semi-famous with the Pistols was kind of an unexpected fluke. A success on his own terms and his own man.
@@Itelkner Agreed! he was 'bombed out' of The Pistols for all sorts of reasons (personalities) but he was a major songwriter, probably the 'Pin up boy' (maybe one of the reasons for his dismissal) , but he has continued to work as a musician! He hasn't ended up on stuff like ; Big Brother, Celebrity Wife Swap etc! I have always had time for Glen, seen him live many times (including with The Pistols) but more recently as a touring Bass player for 'BLONDIE'! God Bless Gen Matlock! dx
It always kills me when non musicians say "Those guys can't even play" or whatever. No, these guys are not "Yes" (thank god), but "they can't even play"??? They are freakin' killing it!! The rhythm section is absolutely LOCKED, and the guitarist is loose and tight at the same time. Johnny has a beautiful voice, too.
They don't understand it was more about the energy of punk rock, the lyrics the movement, not a fucking guitar solo that goes on for 10 mins. They sounded incredible
well i'm an geezer and remember when they first started and yes most of them could not play, they started to learn to be taken more serious as musicians & not just a chaos band, and came up with some great music
@@daveskritterkingdom Matlock was the original bass player in the sex pistols. but he should have remained so, when he left it was the beginning of the end, unfortunately
@Dark Heel Bullshit man. Lydon is a fantastic vocalist with excellent timing, Jones is an accomplished guitarist and Cook always held his own. It was only Sid who couldn't hold a lick.
@@antennawilde After listening to this I must say that Lydons vocals are as fucked as I remember them from the 96 Roskilde gig, where he got bottled of the stage for being a prick! Super annoying, not punk, just trying to wreck what the others are doing. Shabby goat, if you need words for it!
It's amazing to hear the difference in what Steve is able to play when Glen plays bass. He doesn't have to play just a watered down rhythm track. Glen handles what Sid couldn't and allows Steve to show his chops. I love it!
@@revol148 you nailed it. Glen the most underrated Sex Pistol. It's almost like The Doors where there were two songwriters in the band except that Glen Matlock had some of the songs written even before Johnny Rotten joined; whereas Jim Morrison had most of the songs before he joined The Doors. Jim and Johnny some of the best lyricists of rock and roll and frontmen.
@@pugsleyenoch1558 Lemmy??? Where did that happen? And I heard a sound check with Sid and he sounded really good for unfocused musician that was only playing bass for a year
Paul and Glen were air tight keeping things moving forever. Steve was pure and perfect Rock guitar. And Johnny, my god, look at his eyes. Nobody has that same look. It was the look of Armageddon. The end of times. That was the Pistols. Never again to be repeated, let alone matched.....
Full marks to Paul Cook here - so many drummers lose their shit in front of a big crowd and play too fast. Cook is totally in control, he actually reins back the verses in "Anarchy" just to make sure they keep in check.
The clash,damned and pistols first albums were unique in that they all came together at a time when music was getting stale and needed livening up. 40_years on and they are all punk classics masterpieces still to this day. Only the damned are still touring but its good to revisit the music of my youth and still get a buzz from it.
How many ppl in this day and age can honestly say they don't like that first record? It's kind of amazing how ubiquitous such challenging music has become. I'll never forget getting some of my friends into Bollocks in the late 90's; these kids were gobbling up Nu Metal and Tool and shit and most of what they knew of as punk was Green Day - so to see eyes light up at Anarchy was a telling moment that the music stands the test of time. Course I have no idea how today's kids would react to this, now 20 more years later...but I suspect a decent number would get it. There's some kind of transcendent charisma amid the chaos and belligerence...definite catharsis.
@Scotterket jatzen, did you see the Milwaukee show on the 1996 tour? Some fucker jumped on the stage and he has behind Rotten when the security guy jumped him, and between the two of them, they managed to push John over the monitor and he fell face first into the security pit. The show was stopped for at least 10 minutes or so while he got his breath back. It was scary there for a minute.
How INSANELY lucky is this crowd to be able to hear the Sex Pistols themselves play "Holidays In The Sun"... one of the greatest rock songs of all time!
Rock n punk bands have become too nice and corporate including new ones. Chamomile tea at 9pm in bed by 10.30. Punk n rock desperately needs the rawness, attitude and dysfunction back. Oasis was one of the last to bring it back. Every child, young adult, middle aged and OAP love at least a few rock songs, there's just no one ballsy enough to offer it at the minute
Matlock, Cook and Jones are brilliant together. Johnny is just an angry man. The problem with John is, he became a parody of himself: he believed all his own hype....
Oh yeah , Hats off to Steve Jones what a blazing rhythm guitarist he just nails it as all four of them did . Love the pistols and Of course Public Image 👍🇦🇺
everyone who went to this tour... everyone.. were not just surprised but ecstatic that the band was this good. i'm not sure what i was expecting, but... WOW...
The lads came a long way from their press conference announcing this tour in London. They looked all 30 lbs heavy,Impressive. Makes the Clash look like 8th grade. Pure venom with some nasty sound behind it. Glen Matlock great as a bass player.
Come on, there's no venom here! A sad sack of meat bags. Funny, though, never thought I'd be bashing my heroes, but hearing this crap again after refusing to for so many years...I immediately have to go back and listen to Bollocks and repeat that I never heard this or I'll never get that old man voice out of my head
+Alex Delvecchio please don't mention the Clash and the pistols in the same sentence as a brief listen to both London calling and Never mind the bollocks would indicate just how great the former were in comparison to these musically limited attention seekers who made one album and miked it ever since.
@@revol148 I think that both albums were great but London Calling was much more a rock album than punk. And if I could only take one of them to a desert Island, it'd be the Pistols.
If people want to really hear how good this band was, check out the Spunk release - demos from '76 and '77 before they booted Matlock (the most accomplished musician in the band) and replaced him with an image that McLaren wanted to have. They were a smoking good rock trio with an insane vocalist. Tight as hell.
Great to see a properly functioning Sex Pistols again, they were never the same without Glen driving the rhythm. Sid was nothing but a face and a bad joke. God Save the Sex Pistols.
I remember blaring Never Mind The Bollocks at the record department inside a large store I worked at when that album was released. First, The Ramones in 1976...now these guys I thought. People in the store were incensed..."what is that noise..they are terrible". That "noise" still plays in my house and I am forever grateful . Wish The Pistols could or would tour one last time.
It makes me fkin laugh out loud when the advertisements interrupt these fkin awsome songs? Fuck this system of western society. You are all being dictated to still? Don’t let the bastards grind you down? It is what it fkin is. The people in power have no fkin clue what we really think? Come on every one…. Stop and think irrationally? If you don’t , then you will be walked over and shit on? Ex drummer from No Thrills. Wake up our peeps. Xxxx
...the pinnacle of Rocknrollistical mayhem, chaos and controlled fury. Even as a $$ reunion band they fucking scorched the stage. Brilliant rhythm section. My droogs. The greatest.
There´s one thing missing...Johnny´s genuine anger. For me, it just doesn´t work without it. I don´t grudge them their audience´s enthusiasm, though. They deserve it for their one album alone.
1996 was fucking brilliant for music. That summer was the bollocks. Formed my first band, great weather, people were happy, I had money in my pocket (still do, but that was a first), had my first concert, great friends, live music in my hometown all the time, sussed out the fairer sex… all that. The best summer of my life.
For my gorgeous boy KhaOs who got put to sleep in May. My old boy loved this song and sang (howled) everytime it came on with a big smile on his furry face. RIP KhaOs miss you boy 😔
I remember seeing them in Paris on that tour and they opened with "Bodies" and I was blown away with the sound SO massive...Steve Jones' tone had so much distortion...It was great hearing them with a "modern" sound...
After all these years I still love the sex pistols they're still my number one band when I was 14 years old and now I'm 49 years old and they still are my number one wish they came around again
This was the bitchslap GenX grunge from early 90s richly deserved - in one evening, these 4 made old timers decided enough was enough, and proceed to slap the living shit out of Nirvana (or what remained of it), Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Alice In Chains, Radiohead, Soundgarden, Oasis, Green Day, Stone Temple Pilots and everyone else riding on their coattails for free.
So sad today to see crowds holding still and holding up phones to get video footage, this was when concerts were fun and everyone rocked out full blast just to experience the music. Things will never be the same.
still are if you go to punk concerts Still pogoing and screaming at the top of their lungs, as it should be. Just bc people wanna have videos to remember the evening better doesn't mean its all as soulless as most other things are nowadays
F-king brilliant !!, BEST band i ever seen , they were a massive influence on the crap we hear today ,..IWANT 1 OF THEIR SONGS @ MY FUNERAL ,...How were a band so bad SOOOOO Goooood ?
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Theres an argument that this particular reunion was amongst the greatest ever in terms of the live shows, truly phenomenonal stuff, sounded as good as they ever did and made the music sound vital and primal again. Superb
nice comment fella , NICE 1 !
they are just so good and relevant even tho they only made one album they said it all
i dont agree at all..this gig is great short and powerfull..the medley gids i saw .well..i thought they were rather crap..2 x!
1 album sex pistols made so much sense
@@Bavodekat fair enough mate it's all what ya fancy and what ya don't, they were on form here but I'm only seeing a snapshot i suppose.
One album. One single freaking album. The greatest of all times.
I agree with you one hundred percent
Minimalism😂
The 96 reunion tour featured their best live performances ever. They really peaked here, great stuff.
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agree,,,
You have lost it.
@@normanchamings8156 compare it to their eariler live stuff. Or was a well rehearsed set not Punk enough for you?
@@redoz9768 I'd rather pogo and gob.
No band or album affected me like this one did. As a 15 year old kid, nothing came close. As a pushing 60 man, nothing has ever come close, and I don't think anything ever will. Punk started and finished with the Pistols. When John went, everything else to do with punk went too, for me, at least. Bollocks is the best album ever created, by the best band ever to exist.
I couldn't agree more
Same age here. This track re-ignited my interest in the power of music.
And same age again. The power of this stuff has never waned. Truly glorious 🙏🏼🇬🇧
We're on the same thought level and timeline. Saw them at Brixton academy in 2007. Young kids couldn't believe how good they were.
RIP sidney
Steve is the epitome of rock/punk guitarist. He is the glue in this punk perfection...
@Gav Brady: Look . . . I like Steve Jones as much as you do. But it's just not correct to say that the lead guitar can be the glue of a band. It's drums or bass . . .
I feel like I'm on glue listening to him, not crack
QED it’s Rhythm guitar actually 95% of the time and their is no real bass line in it, just the guitar riff played on one string basically. Steve and Paul are everything in the sex pistols coz they taught themselves and that’s what usually happens, you develop a unique and great style of playing in the process
QED Steve has been touted as the greatest rhythm guitarist of all time by many great guitarist far more recognised than him
Check out Steve in '83 when he played with my old band...type "The Nothings & Steve Jones" cheers !
Glen Matlock- the cool and 'straight' one of the bunch, the anchor who keeps it all together. The unsung hero of the Sex Pistols.
Ooh, "[A]n E-U lov-ing re-moan-er"!
#singalongaclueless
@Nigel -- Coming from a Brexiter I genuinely couldn't care less. He's got his reasons n we've got ours, that's all there is to it
Matlock hasn`t done anything successful in his entire career apart from the Pistols.
@@mjh5437 Wrong. He's had a career in music his entire adult life: solo, Rich Kids, Ron Wood and the Faces, Iggy, etc. - which is what he wanted, to be a lifelong working musician making music he liked. That he got briefly famous, or semi-famous with the Pistols was kind of an unexpected fluke. A success on his own terms and his own man.
@@Itelkner Agreed! he was 'bombed out' of The Pistols for all sorts of reasons (personalities) but he was a major songwriter, probably the 'Pin up boy' (maybe one of the reasons for his dismissal) , but he has continued to work as a musician! He hasn't ended up on stuff like ; Big Brother, Celebrity Wife Swap etc! I have always had time for Glen, seen him live many times (including with The Pistols) but more recently as a touring Bass player for 'BLONDIE'! God Bless Gen Matlock! dx
It always kills me when non musicians say "Those guys can't even play" or whatever.
No, these guys are not "Yes" (thank god), but "they can't even play"???
They are freakin' killing it!!
The rhythm section is absolutely LOCKED, and the guitarist is loose and tight at the same time.
Johnny has a beautiful voice, too.
They sounded amazing there and Finsbury park
They don't understand it was more about the energy of punk rock, the lyrics the movement, not a fucking guitar solo that goes on for 10 mins. They sounded incredible
Devoid of pitch or harmony. . . Yes indeed. . . a "beautiful" voice.
well i'm an geezer and remember when they first started and yes most of them could not play, they started to learn to be taken more serious as musicians & not just a chaos band, and came up with some great music
Awesome to see Glen Matlock get the respect he deserved.
He should have been in the band from the start, without him there would be no Sex Pistols!
@@daveskritterkingdom True, but like it or not the American tour (and Sid!) had a lot of cultural significance. Made them even bigger.
coll bass licks too!
@@daveskritterkingdom Matlock was the original bass player in the sex pistols. but he should have remained so, when he left it was the beginning of the end, unfortunately
@@simonhunter3430 sid covered in blood and "gimme a fix" is a striking visual, that's for sure. he looked fucking great, and sang great too actually
MAN THAT BASS PLAYER CAN PLAY !
unlike another bass player we all knew, cough sid cough
@Dark Heel Bullshit man. Lydon is a fantastic vocalist with excellent timing, Jones is an accomplished guitarist and Cook always held his own. It was only Sid who couldn't hold a lick.
@@antennawilde After listening to this I must say that Lydons vocals are as fucked as I remember them from the 96 Roskilde gig, where he got bottled of the stage for being a prick! Super annoying, not punk, just trying to wreck what the others are doing. Shabby goat, if you need words for it!
@@bubbahogg-buga4613 Fuck you asshole.
He was better then Sid Vicious..he was just pure attitude above anything else
Steve's guitar playing is amazing. So raw.
and also I know where to park my bike...
No, miming to Chris Spedding 😉
Jones is a legend, a funny, likable, goofy guy who can cut you in half with the sounds he can make with that thing!!! Respect.
fuckyea, and always profound. find ONE recording where he sucks
Yes
It's amazing to hear the difference in what Steve is able to play when Glen plays bass. He doesn't have to play just a watered down rhythm track. Glen handles what Sid couldn't and allows Steve to show his chops. I love it!
Amazin ...speechless
Nailed the analysis!
Spot on, they compliment each other, Sid was a visual aid, nothing more nothing less
+Bookem Danno they should never have fired Glen who was one of the songwriters - replacing him with Sid was the end for this band
@@revol148 you nailed it. Glen the most underrated Sex Pistol. It's almost like The Doors where there were two songwriters in the band except that Glen Matlock had some of the songs written even before Johnny Rotten joined; whereas Jim Morrison had most of the songs before he joined The Doors. Jim and Johnny some of the best lyricists of rock and roll and frontmen.
They have always been more talented than people realised. John Lydon is a great rock vocalist, and the other three Pistols are talented musicians.
They are all great musicians ✌✌✌
@@pugsleyenoch1558 He looked like an idiot
If only this line up had stayed together. Great rock band. Paul Cook is an absolute machine on drums!
@@pugsleyenoch1558 Lemmy??? Where did that happen? And I heard a sound check with Sid and he sounded really good for unfocused musician that was only playing bass for a year
@@pugsleyenoch1558 Yeah, Lemmy was loved and not a liar. Awesome Bass player too!
Holidays In The Sun 0:16
Pretty Vacant 3:38
Anarchy In The UK 6:56
Thanks mate! Cheers!
Cook is on fire
or perhaps he is cooking lol
Great underrated drummer!
Iv been a pro drummer for 35 years and I can honestly say cooky rocks man ..great drummer ✌✌✌
totally excellent set
better throw him in the water
The most important Band of the Seventies.
chainrelease most important band ever 🙂
chainrelease in the world, ever
Of all time
Frank Filthyfinger you bellend!
The dick brains of this world that never lived in the 70’s in the summer of hate will never know, so bollox
Paul and Glen were air tight keeping things moving forever. Steve was pure and perfect Rock guitar. And Johnny, my god, look at his eyes. Nobody has that same look. It was the look of Armageddon. The end of times. That was the Pistols. Never again to be repeated, let alone matched.....
Innovators not imitators!
still listen to Never mind the bollocks..quite bizarre driving round a country town in Australia...and it still sounds brilliant!
The decals on the bonnet bulge on my bf xr8 ute say pretty vacunt
Now it's burnt to shit, wtf
I drive around a country town in Australia with it cranked too fuck yeah!
Everything a band should be, never been matched at what they do.
Full marks to Paul Cook here - so many drummers lose their shit in front of a big crowd and play too fast. Cook is totally in control, he actually reins back the verses in "Anarchy" just to make sure they keep in check.
Great drummer ✌✌
They might have only a handful of songs but what a fuckin handful!!!!
For a three piece they are very good with a very tight sound, drummers busy as fuck, absolutely one the best bands with some of the best songs ever
@Ian 50014: Right. The amount of noise they make with 3 pieces . . . is truly phenomenal.
Try a 4 piece
3 musicians
Glen's bass lines so good and the back up vocals just like the record. Amazing.
The best band ever. Always will be.
The best album ever. Always will be.
I concur. The best band ever.
idiot. they sucked. always have
Why didnt they make more albums?
Jeff > Because they got fucked by Malcolm...
The clash,damned and pistols first albums were unique in that they all came together at a time when music was getting stale and needed livening up. 40_years on and they are all punk classics masterpieces still to this day. Only the damned are still touring but its good to revisit the music of my youth and still get a buzz from it.
With Matlock in the band,they have so much power.What a band.
The sex pistols are like marmite aren't they? You either love them or hate them,and I LOVE them! 😄👍
How many ppl in this day and age can honestly say they don't like that first record? It's kind of amazing how ubiquitous such challenging music has become. I'll never forget getting some of my friends into Bollocks in the late 90's; these kids were gobbling up Nu Metal and Tool and shit and most of what they knew of as punk was Green Day - so to see eyes light up at Anarchy was a telling moment that the music stands the test of time. Course I have no idea how today's kids would react to this, now 20 more years later...but I suspect a decent number would get it. There's some kind of transcendent charisma amid the chaos and belligerence...definite catharsis.
This little vegemite loves them too!
I love marmite and the pistols
John likes his with plenty of butter.
Makes me feel so good watching the real bassplayer of S.P.
Britain has the best Talent. So many great bands thru the
years. God Bless the Sex Pistols! From Wisconsin, USA.
The brits were the best but the good old usa had the ramones and dead Kennedy s.
@Scotterket jatzen, did you see the Milwaukee show on the 1996 tour? Some fucker jumped on the stage and he has behind Rotten when the security guy jumped him, and between the two of them, they managed to push John over the monitor and he fell face first into the security pit. The show was stopped for at least 10 minutes or so while he got his breath back. It was scary there for a minute.
Generous of you mate. Sounds powerful doesn't it?
And the best teeths.
@@aha3885 And spelling.
Cook still the most underrated drummer of all time.
What makes you believe he's underrated?
How INSANELY lucky is this crowd to be able to hear the Sex Pistols themselves play "Holidays In The Sun"... one of the greatest rock songs of all time!
rly hits different if you grew up in Berlin
Cook, Jones and Matlock: just fabulous together! Every time I come back to this post I want to write something...
We need music like this more than ever right now...
We need a new orginal band how doesn't give two fucks about the establishment!
you must to listen sex pistol right on
Rock n punk bands have become too nice and corporate including new ones. Chamomile tea at 9pm in bed by 10.30. Punk n rock desperately needs the rawness, attitude and dysfunction back. Oasis was one of the last to bring it back. Every child, young adult, middle aged and OAP love at least a few rock songs, there's just no one ballsy enough to offer it at the minute
I was just commenting that this generation is not rebellious enough!!!
fuckin right?!! And that audience would scare people in the US today. We've lost our fuckin edge
Yeah. They can't play. This is fuckin rock and roll at its best.
I felt a little bummed out today...until I saw this video
again. It cheered me up.
Matlock, Cook and Jones are brilliant together. Johnny is just an angry man. The problem with John is, he became a parody of himself: he believed all his own hype....
Anarchy in the U.K. is my most favorite song. （╹◡╹）
paul cook is an amazing drummer total respect
So solid. It's a Ringo thing. Not the best but RIGHT!
Love steve jones as a guitarist. Raw and powerful and great tone. Like a wall of sound just hits you
Oh yeah , Hats off to Steve Jones what a blazing rhythm guitarist he just nails it as all four of them did . Love the pistols and Of course Public Image 👍🇦🇺
everyone who went to this tour... everyone.. were not just surprised but ecstatic that the band was this good. i'm not sure what i was expecting, but... WOW...
Steve Jones' guitar tone is perfect for me. What a show!
HOLY SHITE but Jones sounds KILLER!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
The lads came a long way from their press conference announcing this tour in London. They looked all 30 lbs heavy,Impressive. Makes the Clash look like 8th grade. Pure venom with some nasty sound behind it. Glen Matlock great as a bass player.
Come on, there's no venom here! A sad sack of meat bags. Funny, though, never thought I'd be bashing my heroes, but hearing this crap again after refusing to for so many years...I immediately have to go back and listen to Bollocks and repeat that I never heard this or I'll never get that old man voice out of my head
@@aggremo you don't believe the Clash & co wouldn't have done a reunion? Sounded great as long as you don't see it as though it's 1977
@@aggremo get grip you melodramatic wanker. They were only in their early 40s here and sound fantastic
+Alex Delvecchio please don't mention the Clash and the pistols in the same sentence as a brief listen to both London calling and Never mind the bollocks would indicate just how great the former were in comparison to these musically limited attention seekers who made one album and miked it ever since.
@@revol148 I think that both albums were great but London Calling was much more a rock album than punk. And if I could only take one of them to a desert Island, it'd be the Pistols.
If people want to really hear how good this band was, check out the Spunk release - demos from '76 and '77 before they booted Matlock (the most accomplished musician in the band) and replaced him with an image that McLaren wanted to have. They were a smoking good rock trio with an insane vocalist. Tight as hell.
Too bad they didn't sound like this in '77 to support the new album. A+
Great to see a properly functioning Sex Pistols again, they were never the same without Glen driving the rhythm. Sid was nothing but a face and a bad joke. God Save the Sex Pistols.
That’s true but he got them extra publicity
Fuck, I've never heard 'em sound tighter! It's almost counterproductive haha.
"don't let the bastards grind you down. never!"
Way ahead of time !! Best sounding band, and still after 46 years!!
Just 3 words.. Paul Fucking Cook!!
great energy - compare it to any current band -
Cock Sparrer. The Bronx. Motörhead. Slayer.
@@TheLexiconDevils Slayer and Motorhead are not on par with SPs. Didn't he say current band? Do love your profile name though
A cheap holiday in other people's misery...🤣🤣🙈🍺🇳🇿
Damn they are good. Always loved Steves guitar playing and sound. And amazing rythm section and one of the best frontmen.
One of the best guitar sounds ever. Les Paul into Marshall’s.
daveydumpling ____ Fender Twin on Bollocks
@@burlatsdemontaigne6147 it was . .can you imagine being in the room with a dimed Twin. It must have been brutal.
Never been a band like then since, or ever will be, simply the fucking best, and they know it too! Long live the Pistols!
The avalanche of creativity in UK music from 1976-the early 80s is largely down to this band. Attitude.
First time seen this…. That was some performance. Tight. Owned the crowd. Raw. Everything a live band should be. Timeless.
I was there at the front in front of Steve Jones. What a day!
I didn't realize how much they were rocking it in 96. Awesome stuff
I remember blaring Never Mind The Bollocks at the record department inside a large store I worked at when that album was released. First, The Ramones in 1976...now these guys I thought. People in the store were incensed..."what is that noise..they are terrible". That "noise" still plays in my house and I am forever grateful . Wish The Pistols could or would tour one last time.
This is how these tunes were meant to be played. Super hardcore performance... they were into it.
It makes me fkin laugh out loud when the advertisements interrupt these fkin awsome songs? Fuck this system of western society. You are all being dictated to still? Don’t let the bastards grind you down? It is what it fkin is. The people in power have no fkin clue what we really think? Come on every one…. Stop and think irrationally? If you don’t , then you will be walked over and shit on? Ex drummer from No Thrills. Wake up our peeps. Xxxx
...the pinnacle of Rocknrollistical mayhem, chaos and controlled fury.
Even as a $$ reunion band they fucking scorched the stage. Brilliant rhythm section.
My droogs. The greatest.
Absolutely. Well said Bobgure.
Still fucking power In 2022
There´s one thing missing...Johnny´s genuine anger. For me, it just doesn´t work without it. I don´t grudge them their audience´s enthusiasm, though. They deserve it for their one album alone.
Holidays-this is thee one i sing/ think of. Its the sods, dangerous and plain first stab taboo, dont mess with us. No, dont miss Sid.
It's amazing what 16-17 years will do for your musicianship. Having a real bass player helps too.
1996 was fucking brilliant for music. That summer was the bollocks. Formed my first band, great weather, people were happy, I had money in my pocket (still do, but that was a first), had my first concert, great friends, live music in my hometown all the time, sussed out the fairer sex… all that. The best summer of my life.
Amazing! Jonesy rockin the Chuck Berry solo....great sound!
Was actually there. What a weekend.
This lot were the icing on the cake.
😎😎🤘🤘
There will never be anyone else like Lydon. A TRUE Original. Icon
John Lydon shows what it's like to be a True Frontman
One album you never tire off,,1977-2023 respect
3:32
Seeing Steve go into the intro chords of Pretty Vacant live in person is a life highlight.
Man they blew the doors off the place here. Great mixing-- hell, great PLAYING
My god the energy on that stage ends up being massive!
There IS a Heaven because Jones" axe sounds like it!!
Best band ever
Yes
As an American I would like to thank the UK for the Sex Pistols
This was a great gig. Phoenix festival was simply amazing. Did it twice.
0:03 Holidays In The Sun
3:37 Pretty Vacant
6:54 anarchy In The U.K.
Im just glad he kept the Pistols music alive. Props to Matlock
So fortunated who where there
What a important band in musical history
For my gorgeous boy KhaOs who got put to sleep in May. My old boy loved this song and sang (howled) everytime it came on with a big smile on his furry face. RIP KhaOs miss you boy 😔
They sounded great. How did I miss this.
Saw them at Finsbury Park same year. Simply the best, best guitar, best album, love it!!!
I remember seeing them in Paris on that tour and they opened with "Bodies" and I was blown away with the sound SO massive...Steve Jones' tone had so much distortion...It was great hearing them with a "modern" sound...
After all these years I still love the sex pistols they're still my number one band when I was 14 years old and now I'm 49 years old and they still are my number one wish they came around again
Steve Jones
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This was the bitchslap GenX grunge from early 90s richly deserved - in one evening, these 4 made old timers decided enough was enough, and proceed to slap the living shit out of Nirvana (or what remained of it), Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Alice In Chains, Radiohead, Soundgarden, Oasis, Green Day, Stone Temple Pilots and everyone else riding on their coattails for free.
They were the best band ever in 1996 with Glen Matlock! Speed makes for excellent performances.
They changed the music scene like no other band before them.or since
Still the best 20 years down the line!
Super!!!!!!Sound is The Best!!!! GLEN BASS 100%.1977!!!!!!
So much of what the Pistols did at the time seemed like torture for them - here, it looks like they're actually enjoying it.
This is easily the best Pistols gig and one of the best of all time by any band
The greatest band to ever live.
So sad today to see crowds holding still and holding up phones to get video footage, this was when concerts were fun and everyone rocked out full blast just to experience the music. Things will never be the same.
still are if you go to punk concerts
Still pogoing and screaming at the top of their lungs, as it should be. Just bc people wanna have videos to remember the evening better doesn't mean its all as soulless as most other things are nowadays
Cook Matlock and Jones and Jones totoally nail this. Top Rhythm section. Lydon "Can't even be bothered £££££"
as linhas de baixo do Glen...phoda!
they sound exactly like on the record, incredible !
I know!
Same groove, power and intensity
They improved their playing technique.
F-king brilliant !!, BEST band i ever seen , they were a massive influence on the crap we hear today ,..IWANT 1 OF THEIR SONGS @ MY FUNERAL ,...How were a band so bad SOOOOO Goooood ?