Paul Cook is a truly lethal secret drumming weapon.

@tolvana

5 жыл бұрын

Totally underrated. Paul Cook should have way more credit for his awesome work over all.

@4578a

5 жыл бұрын

Great backbeat

@scotty193

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah ok.....You guys have never heard Dave Lombardo then have you?, thought not. Cook is an adequate drummer for what was the Pistols sound, along with fatboy on guitar. Never mind Sid but amazingly on that version of Belsen he actually played something.

@barfcoswill

4 жыл бұрын

Cooks drumming has great clarity and definition at 1:47 mark, filling in the gaps, great choices, and carrying Sid.

@lahaug

2 жыл бұрын

@@scotty193 I'm a true Slayer fan and love Lombardo but this comparison is just plain stupid.

This performance of this song is such an anomaly in that everyone's at the top of their game whereas the songs before and after, they're all out of it

@doom_81

3 жыл бұрын

Well said. This is the one bright, shining (yet dark) moment of the show. The rest is a mess. #Carry-on-Sex-Pistols

@itwontcomeout5678

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder, from a casual fan’s perspective, if their increased attitude was due to the subject manner... The Holocaust, which had killed people only 30 years before this time, not 90 years ago like now....

@h.i.m3646

2 жыл бұрын

Harsh, this is one of the Pistols best shows.

@monkeyballs512

Жыл бұрын

@@itwontcomeout5678 great math, but this recording isn’t 60 years old.

@DS-qu2rs

10 ай бұрын

yeah, even Sid Vicious got his 3 notes right!

Very surprising that Sid wrote the one of the best and harshest songs of Pistols.He also played it very well in this one.

@Mika-rd7xb

5 жыл бұрын

It is a nazi song ?

@yroach

5 жыл бұрын

Severus Snape It is to be a cynical view of someone sending postcards in a peachy nature from a concentration camp/nazi Germany, if I remember right

@monkeyliver1986

5 жыл бұрын

@@niclawson1520 of course someone who thinks that doesn't know how to spell holocaust

@caydencayuga7876

5 жыл бұрын

@@niclawson1520 You're a fucking hoax.

@raymondnoodels7775

5 жыл бұрын

sid always had a 50s style even in his playing...in this song he did it..his way.

Sid's bass playing here is really good. I'll give him that.

@sexobscura

4 жыл бұрын

he's sure no Matlock, though

@Britton_Thompson

4 жыл бұрын

That's because he thought they were playing a different song....

@d_berkut7493

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe is because this song is easy to play on bass

@mrknowalltellall572

3 жыл бұрын

this has to be overdubbed

@tds2117

3 жыл бұрын

You have an interesting definition of “good”, considering he’s fucking up constantly 3/4ths into the song and it’s the simplest bass line imaginable.

Johnny always had style but at this concert he was perhaps the coolest looking guy in the world.

@duane8829

3 жыл бұрын

I do get annoyed with his shtick sometimes but I’d have to agree with you

@E.C.2

7 ай бұрын

All 4 looked cool,each w their own style. Damn shame it imploded right as they were cresting.

My favorite pistols song. Sid and Dee Dee Ramoe wrote some great songs even though they were down in the gutters of heroin. I love this song.

@miisu

4 жыл бұрын

Dee Dee wrote songs for many albums. Sid did not write even this one, Keith Levene did. Sid did the lyrics.

They say this was the Pistols worst performance, that makes it their best.

Definitely my favorite Pistols tune. The melody and main riff is just too, too cool. Very dark.

@scotty193

5 жыл бұрын

It is with dark meaning and now Lydon lightens it to conform with "Hitler is Queer"...It never started out that way as punk was all about shock and I agree with that. i don't of course sit right with millions that died but the song has a place in history...And as you say it is just the most awesome riff from the Pistols back then and the lyrics are unforgettable.

@mattstrathis4328

5 жыл бұрын

@@scotty193 It's an anti war song.

@scotty193

5 жыл бұрын

@@mattstrathis4328 Sid Vicious wrote the song and it never started out as that, please don't insult my intelligence.

@mattstrathis4328

5 жыл бұрын

@@scotty193 The song is anti you...

@sexobscura

4 жыл бұрын

@@scotty193 the Pistols certainly do NOT need apologists like you to blunt their BITE they whole-heatedly detested the jewish race

Best played song of their last show.

When the howling guitar tone starts sends cold shivers down my spine.

@lettoreentusiasta9374

Ай бұрын

It is true. The first two chords have a residual distortion that makes them extremely sinister. And it was pure chance.

Johnny's hahaha HaHaHa still makes me laugh after all these years

What a great bunch of lads.

Sid at :50 is awesome.

@sexobscura

2 жыл бұрын

little hip wobble

Best pistols song. Wrote and composed by Sid Vicious ☠️☠️☠️

Sid played well enough for these songs. Fantastic guitar tone. ‼️🎶🎸🎼😍

This is one of their best songs!

1:14, Steve Jones does a balletic loll on the riff, despite everything they were still rising above the BS for the performance.

Both bassists were badass in their own way

@draxlerchronicles5851

3 жыл бұрын

Especially the original one who knew how to play

@HGSolberg

Жыл бұрын

Sid was badass in everything except playing bass.

@philshine3388

3 ай бұрын

Sid was miming

This shows how Sid would play if he just got the bass part! Getting the tracks listening to the records from 70s times sure was hard, and obviously Steve giving them was never happening :/

@E.C.2

7 ай бұрын

SPUNK LP is better than "Never mind..."

Started listening to them in 1984. Heard this on the Swindle in '85. Have the Winterland CD. But i'd no idea up till recently the gig was actually filmed.

@handsomejack5787

2 жыл бұрын

Never Mind The Bollocks is the best album they made in my opinion

@josephblaint777

11 ай бұрын

What do you mean 1984?

Jones can really play guitar!

Ive about 250 items in my collection, bootlegs, box set, cd, dvd,books, 7inch 12inch albums pic disc, and lots more the sex pistols simply were once in a lifetime. Going to john lydon question and answer session in june.

Sid destination wasnt just merly to be a bass player, his destiny was to be the biggest punk icon in the world. Which he accomplished in spades!!

Ever since reading the Lester Bangs account of this particular performance in "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung", I've been transfixed by it

Sid's playing wasn't too bad in this

@Sadowsky1965

8 жыл бұрын

+thehappyhacker0101 Probably because this is one of the last songs of the concert and the heroin in his body is less than in the first songs.

@disgruntledvet4849

6 жыл бұрын

Your having a bubble mate

@eugenecanavan8144

5 жыл бұрын

Sid couldn't play bass,or any other instrument,Steve Jones ,or some session musician filled in,Lemmy showed him how to play,to no avail.Sid was chosen as Glen Matlock's replacement purely on image.R.I.P Sid

@WarthDader74

5 жыл бұрын

Sid was always a very good and entertaining musician

@guitarofdestiny

5 жыл бұрын

@@Sadowsky1965 stupid theory. Lol

Fukin loved the pistols r.i.p.sid

Thank God we have this on video

this is my wedding song

One of the greatest songs ever

el mejor tema de los pistols, lejos, melodia pesada y oscura, creepy, agresiva, la guitarra rompiendo todo, es buenísimo

Absolutely genius

I love this song

This is a very nice song. I liked it.

Great work Sidney

☠️☠️☠️☠️!! Show!!🤘🤘🤘

I love this song And if anyone misinterprets it... Well then. Sex Pistols Forever

@handsomejack5787

2 жыл бұрын

Well said . This bodies and holidays in the sun are my personal favorites.

@richardjames1751

2 жыл бұрын

I was actually just reading an article and the journalist described this song as a neo nazi anthem… I had never heard this song before but definitely knew of the band and I was like huh??? I feel it’s pretty obvious that they were just trying to paint a picture of how horrible the holocaust was. Not trying to glorify what happened or anything like that

@johncrosley1

2 жыл бұрын

There were no gas chambers at Belsen. The tens of thousands of deaths were mainly from starvation and typhus. If you are going to write a song it would make sense to know what you are singing about.

@Marika__xoxo

Жыл бұрын

@@johncrosley1 something being “a gas” in British English means something being cool/fun.

@johncrosley1

Жыл бұрын

@@Marika__xoxo If you are putting that meaning to the song that’s even sicker than what they meant. Even John Lydon or Sid Vicious wouldn’t consider Belsen to be fun. It’s a play on words regarding the gas chambers in the extermination camps of which Belsen wasn’t one. The majority of deaths there were from starvation and typhus. Do a little research and comment again.

Steve Jones - fantastic - this is the Pistols on fire

Sid was... competent on here. After all, it was (allegedly) his song.

@sutatipwilliams6567

4 жыл бұрын

Allediglyy who cares he went for it in life maybe it wasn't what he was looking for But famousfor2 or 3 0r more years fault that

@handsomejack5787

3 жыл бұрын

About the only time he was. Lol

@fordcountry420

7 ай бұрын

Look for the soundcheck from this same Winterland show. Sid was playing surprisingly well there. Must have been before he shot up that day?

Greatest Punk song period.

1:00 - was that a flying hamburger?

@sebastianciarfella3061

4 жыл бұрын

Looked more like a bird

@sexobscura

3 жыл бұрын

A hambirder

This particular song was performed MUCH better than the other songs during this live concert

Con este tema es el comienzo de todo lo extremo dentro del punkcore hardcore noisecore spedcore violencia etc.

*My Jewish friends think this song is hilarious and like to dance around to it whenever they play it [which is VERY often]*

@Iracord

2 жыл бұрын

@Da gorrilaa Why didn't your parents have children...???

Sid played really well here, it was the drugs that diminished his playing...No other country tops English youth culture .. England forever 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Rip Sid!!!!

Fucking Quality🇬🇧

Pure, unadulterated genius

@johncrosley1

2 жыл бұрын

The genius who didn’t know there were no gas chambers at Belsen.

@dxs8

Жыл бұрын

@@johncrosley1 yea but saying something was a gas meant that it was “poppin” or “hip” in modern slang. So true there wasn’t gas chambers but they were using the 70s street slang of saying it was a gas

@dxs8

Жыл бұрын

It also doesn’t mean that Jews still didn’t die at that camp. Majority of deaths that happened there were from starvation and Typhus

Brill song.

@steely6663

8 жыл бұрын

+thevoice1969 be nice that

GREAT LAST SHOW. I laugh my ass off. Also it was on my birthday.

Best punk rock song ever done, period!

Jonesy wrote and played all the guitar on Nevermind the bollocks. Vicious could play bass at the end yeah but Matlock was a 10 better player. If they kept Glen they might have actually made a 2nd album.

@WarthDader74

5 жыл бұрын

Sid Vicious fitted much better in the band than that other guy. He was much more of a personality, more entertaining. And in a band like the Sex Pistols, no one is supposed to play their instrument perfectly

@sexobscura

5 жыл бұрын

Malcolm did it ALL in the studio

@Monchi2006

4 жыл бұрын

@@WarthDader74 you've been swindled

@dxs8

Жыл бұрын

Jones didn’t want to do another album in fear that it would suck and diminish their whole legacy. Also there was no Pistols without Johnny!! I mean there was some good songs with just Cookie and Jones and a couple from the Swindle but the image wasn’t there anymore

@themadmattster9647

Жыл бұрын

my theory is if sid would've lived, they would've reformed the Pistols with him as singer, just like the infamous "Sid Sings" concert kinda hints at. Matlock on bass and Sid on vocals, pretty crazy

Vicious rock song, no pun intended...

Kinda crazy Sid wrote anything at all like ever.

@handsomejack5787

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah i remember listening to sid sings. It was an album recorded in a pub and sid says ' Belsen was a gas by sid vicious' and every one starts giving him abuse. Then i learn he really did write it.

This song is genius

Great Ryth to it

Steve is such a good guitar player, john a perfect frontman real angst here, sid bass basic but hes got the idea, paul a heavy drummer holding it all together, john sounds like hes going mad with high pitched screams amazing.

❤

Will the "Sid cant play bass" people can shut up now? Nope.

...NEVER LOSING HIS COOL, SID DANCES " A JIGG ", AT THE CLOSE OF THE TUNE !!!!......THERE WAS ANOTHER GUY THAT DANCED " A JIG " AT THE FALL OOF PARIS, FRRANCE IN WW2. GO PISTOLS!

I first heard the pistols in the late 70's I was a small child but they were like heroine.

Last Sex Pistols gig in Winterland, Frisco, 1/14/1978

Sid's song!

Mi parte favorita: na na na na na!!! Ahhhhhhh ahhhhhhhh

Best S.P. song and Simon Ritchie wrote it!

real genuine punkrock ever...SEX PISTOL...

Fucking amazing godam

fucking good

Tea!

He's play bass fairly good john changed some of words to original words sid wrote but only a few differences .his bass is good at huddersfield ivanhoes I've got the bootleg I'm a big collector and fan seen them six times on reunion tours amazing band met John and Glen both in Leicester uk

sid wrote this.

@rainyday4970

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I heard it was the only one he actually wrote. I like it. Despite the anti-Semitism.

@superotterify

7 жыл бұрын

Rainy Day I highly doubt sid wrote the final version. my guess is he wrote a rough draft and lydon added on. has his wit and snarkiness all over it

@philipjones7372

6 жыл бұрын

Speak with Keith Levene - it was a Flowers of Romance tune before the Pistols 😁

@jpollackauthor

4 жыл бұрын

@@superotterify He wrote the whole song years before joining the Pistols. His original handwritten lyrics sheet is online.

@peterstayne3765

3 жыл бұрын

No John lydon did alter some lyrics

👍

Sex Pistols"WILL PLAY" 🎸🎤😁

He sings like a maniac.best live

Que + Pank !

Nanananananananananaanana Ahahhahahahahaha Ahahhahahahahaha Arhggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Best part of the song

If the new wave "punks" heard this song they'd cry and do it.

I wait for an adaptation : "GAZA WAS A GAS" !

Sid was writing from a pov about killing Jews not anti semantic more like writing letter from concentration camp ...letter or postcard and the Dallas longhorn ballroom show had better lyrics than this which said see them all starched white see us cleansed etc...this song is anti Hitler's just as a German group called CAN whose 1969 song called OUTSIDE MY DOOR is about a train trip to a concentration camp ...just listen to the words of both songs...you'll see ok ... also funny thing...john Lyndon is into the rock group ...CAN ok ???

@sebastianciarfella3061

4 жыл бұрын

It's like rape me from nirvana

@mayavale4926

4 жыл бұрын

sebastian ciarfella yeah or polly

@kurtwaldheim4048

Жыл бұрын

The original lyrics are simple, indeed an imaginary letter from a concentration camp. However, it is Lydon's adlibbed parts which makes it into a sarcastic anti war song.

sid fucking vicious rip

Is that an uncredited Lora Logic sax solo we hear from below deck.

I'm terrified that Johnny Rotten will die, he is king and already 66 years old

@judesheckelberg5135

9 ай бұрын

Everyone dies. Not everyone lives.

This tune would NOT fly today 😂 I've a feeling also this was a middle finger to McClaren as well, and if so... Good 😂

#team177013

SID

Best moment 1:29 na-na-na-nananananana a-a-a-AAAAAAAAAAAAA!

0:55

Keith Levene wrote this, Sid did the lyrics.

@JormaX

4 жыл бұрын

Where did you find out about that?

@sexobscura

3 жыл бұрын

And Levene is Jewish, too

This song is as good as MY WAR by Black Flag

@lithograph-yx2ds

Жыл бұрын

It’s way better

1:31 -1:34 hilarious

1:57

ピストルズ最高！解散してシドも亡くなってから 聞き出したけど、かなり影響受けたな。

Sid wrote the original lyrics pre- pistols . They included " when you're on the train it's Auf Wiedersehen" ..John changed parts so it's more of song of ugly-disgust ( like 'Bodies' ) rather than a seemingly gloating anti-Semitic number . No Belsen did not have a gas chamber..."the Gas" line is obviously a twist on a then current phrase as with 'we mean it Maaan ' ( see obvious reference 'Jumping Jack Flash' , T Rex 'life's a Gas) . Sid wasn't a great musician but is what musically powers this song .( & he could play a number of Ramones bass lines- read Viv Albertines book about how quickly he could pick up bass 'riff- lines') ...people seem to forget he wasn't a practiced musician , but a friend/ fan of the Pistols who had only casually tried some instruments inc' Saxaphone , Drums, Bass... PIL did play this at their early gigs ( e.g Rainbow 26th Dec '78' ) . If you listen to the uncompleted demo version the Pistols did record it surprisingly does sound like a PIL track .

Am I the only one suspecting that a bass line was overdubbed onto this track and that Sid Vicious' bass can't be heard because they turned it down right at the source?

@mrknowalltellall572

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. Steve's guitar is also overdubbed some

@dxs8

Жыл бұрын

It’s very possible. Jones admitted to having the session player play behind the curtains cause Sid couldn’t play (or at least any good lol) but this was also filmed in the late 70s. A lot of latency on these kind of videos so you may think Jonesys guitar is overdubbed but it isn’t. Now on the NMTB Jones did a lot of overdubbing himself

@kurtwaldheim4048

Жыл бұрын

No, because the playing is extremely amateurish. If it was dubbed by a professional bassist, it would have been far better played. But in any case it was broadcast live, I used to have a bootleg of that broadcast, so it cannot possibly have been overdubbed later, as it sounded exactly like this, including the awful mixing at the beginning of the concert. .

This is one of greatest anti nazi songs ever written

Why wasn't this song on never mind the bollocks?

@Monchi2006

5 жыл бұрын

DavidThompsonV1 it was brand new

@handsomejack5787

2 жыл бұрын

@@Monchi2006 my version of 'never mind the bollocks' had it listed on the back cover but it wasn't on the album. However it was on 'the great rock n roll swindle'.

"Belsen was a gas" is a fantastic song. Not a antisemitic song . a song that you can not do in this period time . u know why?

tururu rururu tururu rururu turururururururu turu tururururuuru turu

1:32 when you lose in fortnite

@DaveSmith-fg1zt

Ай бұрын

Only bums play Fortnite

who is playing sids parts

@itwontcomeout5678

5 жыл бұрын

Sid himself. He just started getting good, and a little bit sober (?) RIP

For Sean Spicer.