The Sex Pistols - Full Concert - 01/14/78 - Winterland (OFFICIAL) 

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

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

Awesome

Wow that's awesome

about sid's bass line right?

thats awesome man. Best wishes

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

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.

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.

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)

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.

@@user-bc1ug7ip6j 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

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

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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

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 RU-vid 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

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.

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!

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

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.

+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

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.

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

Seventeen

Fixed

WARNER: Punk died for the 2nd TIME

Well done lad 👏

Good night

Same! This is completely diff from what I've heard. "No Fun" was an actually song, while in the old stories, they said Johnny just sat there saying No fun for 10 minutes, but that's a total lie!

First time I've watched it. It's f***ing awesome. I don't think rock and roll was ever performed with such energy before or since.

@@esp-music Mmm yes there's a misunderstanding going on. They only play 1 song for encore. They didn't play 1 song (no fun) as the whole set.

Yes dude. You got to know where you looking for. I personally think the Maasbree concert in Netherlands and also the special christmas childrens show in the north of england were pretty good.

I'm not sure I would call it tight, especially Sid's bass, but the energy is there yeah, and it's not a complete disaster.

@Sharks he acc sounds alright Tbf like not good but it kinda suits the music

@Sharks ye agreed if he didn’t end up on heroin I think he would’ve gotten a lot better, tho like u said Glen was always the better option

It cracks me up when people comment on Sloppy punk rock playing I mean are you guys f****** serious the vocals are off the guitar is off the base is off this is punk Rock dumbasses enjoy it for its energy!!!

Sid Sings surprised me

Sid did it just right!

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...

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

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If that isn't an accurate portrayal of a drummer, idk what is.

Well said!

Brilliantly put

By far the soundest of the bunch.

there is also the texas ballroom on youtube

he stayed with the les pauls so there was no tuning issues like this show ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bU8s6_soJDg.htmlsi=5uthROvp0XDOvomx

This was their last 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......

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.

Johnny wrote all those lyrics at 19 yrs of age !!! WTF 🤙🏽

🤣🤣🤣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"

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!"

56:52 The very definition of *"famous last words."*

This gig is fkin amazing, blistering performance. Truly superb in my opinion, proper kick ass

Yeah they actually did good harmonies

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--

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

SOOOOOOOOOOO TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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

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 RU-vid 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!

Sonic Youth done it for them instead

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 . 🤙🏽

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...

"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.

Agreed, magnificent innit.. 👍

I know it’s 3 later but I read cocky so many times 😭

.obe

They pretty much split when Johnny walked off the stage.

.... 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

The story behind the song is fucking wild. Look it up..

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"

i agree.he wasnt half as bad as people say.these recordings prove it

im gonna take a look i live down the street

@@username9one is it there?

DM 777 i was across the street yesterday and forgot, next time

@@username9one Take a pic if it's there and make it your profile.

sx brendoextendo was it there?

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!!!"

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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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.

Yup, I remember 1978 quite well. Stadium rock was the sound of those days... Hall & Oates, Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straits.... so yeah, punk was definitely a breath of fresh air.

@@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.

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.

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.

54, punk never die

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.

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

+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).