SEX PISTOLS Paul Cook 1979 Interview 

He's my favourite pistol.

Thankyou

And I would add to that, Paul is right , drugs killed Sid. The rest ia bollocks, always was. If most folk inly knew what drugs do..

My favourite of the Pistols

He should be the co host of Steve on jonesys jukebox that would be great imo

@@gcroller93 jonesy is a let to down in my opinion.As Robert E. Lee said"dont keep no cats that dont catch no mice".

Box sets as well

They were amazing sid was ok as well it was pure crap people said they could not play

Good musicians well okay sid was basic but had potential

I tried my best with what i had

@@betaville72 You did a great job with those pics, especially the Hendrix and Beatles' album covers featuring the Spiky Tops instead.

Ones a drummer and the other is the lead singer, artistic centre point and leader of the band ! Errrr?

Agree with Sarah. Paul is polite and courteous.

@@emmahunter1875 'Polite and courteous' ? Yes, fairy nuff, but how far do you think the Pistols would've got if they'd been polite and courteous back in the day ? Would we have had... Never Mind the Rudeness, featuring such tracks as : 'Courteousness in the UK' 'Pretty Polite' ? Hmmm... 😉

@@kaptinshazbat7535 Yes. If Paul had been the frontman, they'd have gone nowhere. Early on, Steve actually gave up singing lead, and stuck to guitar, so that the Rotten persona could be that focal point and basically the 'punk' image.

As Johnny's gotten older, but still hung onto that 'Rotten' image, he has looked sillier and sillier. However, as a young guy, he was the one putting his balls on the line and taking the heat for it. Take my word. No Johnny, no Pistols. Unless you believe 'TGR'nRS' is the equal of 'NMTB', which it clearly isn't.

Is the soundcheck on here?

@@mjh5437 no sadly not, maybe one day you never know.

He wouldn`t have been Johnny Rotten otherwise,you can`t have it both ways,durrrrr

@@mjh5437 hey I really like Johnny. Just quoting what Steve said in a interview one time. He’s very clever and has a heart of gold. Was around when punk kicked off in 70s. Still have a Anarchy in UK Long sleeve cheese cloth shirt Original.

And that's why quiet Paul was the drummer and loud Johnny the frontman. Ditto Charlie Watts to Mick Jagger, or Ringo Starr to John Lennon. Ideally, each is suited to their role in the overall thing.

5'8

@@matthewjdouglas6471 was malcolm small?

@@markgreet3543 I never met him. I wouldn't know. I have met Paul though. And he seems taller than he looksvon tv 📺 or photographs 📸

I'm a big pistol collector fan I would say malcolm was average height 5.8 or 5.9 sid called him a little git once ha ha bless them

@@matthewjdouglas6471 I mean some one once said steve was small he was the tallest then sid then john then glen and paul but when I meet glen he said sid was only 5 11

Stuart Grundy (BBC)

@@spiritualparadise4887 Is he still around?

@@VincentRE79 You may find this interesting: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F49MiKG30qw.html

@@spiritualparadise4887 Yes thanks for that. He did a pretty good interview with Paul Cook here would you agree?

@@VincentRE79 Yes ... Paul is probably the most courteous member of the band. He's given many very interesting interviews over the years.

The interviews with various audiences on that tour shows they were pretty stupid. Antagonlzing Sid, while he's standing above you on stage with a bass in his hand was not exactly bright, for example.

I think he said Americans who came to the shows were stupid. I can well imagine that most in the audience were coming out to catch a freak show and watch trouble unfold. The biggest punk show I was at was around the same time as the Pistol's tour - a horribly dilapidated ancient vacant and rotting theater in NYC which I think was being used by CBGB to promote concert type exposure for punk outside of the club environment. That place was not fit for anything but demolition. A cold night, no heating, holes in the building, the crowd held out on the sidewalk to freeze for maybe more than an hour after the show was supposed to start. Then 3 name bands - I remember The Dictators and The Dead Boys but not the 3rd. The audience was moronic for sure, but maybe you couldn't blame them all things considered, but they were there more for chaos than music. Constant conflict between bands and audience with The Dead Boys finally ending the fiasco by smashing instruments on the stage and storming off. This may have been the one and only show that got off the ground in this subway toilet of a venue.

well booking at a kicker bar by Malcom Kickers are not very bright he knew there would be trouble

@@stephenspark9358What us a “”Kicker”? A redneck?

@@stephenspark9358 What is a Kicker?