Sex Pistols:Silly Thing Video

[robhurtington]

this versions cool, but pauls vocal track was better!

[Noodles37UK]

Always envied Jones. He looked dead cool and never seemed to give a fuck.

[xSABRE1x]

@Noodles37UK at this point though, Steve Realised he was trying to mimic vicious in many ways you vould tell by the guitar strumming eventually he realised he was trying to be so much like sid but realised he had his own syle and potential but i agree with you he was very cool

[xSABRE1x]

@xSABRE1x could*

[sweetmay73]

HAHAH it's weird without johnny or sid but i really like this track :D

[JollyFisherman65]

This was definitely one of the Pistols' better ones

[storymaker95]

defiantly not what you except from them but yeah, without johnny and sid...However, i actually love this song cause it's so freaking chill to listen to.

[0mgwtfbbq21]

Jonesy and Cookie, the original Pistols...

[neurogami]

Too funny. Without McLaren and/or Lydon they became pop dandies. At least Jones does a passable rip-off of Johhny Thunder's guitar style.

[auraliisa]

the LIVE SEX PISTOLS

[rubencon]

Paul Cook – drums

Steve Jones – guitar, bass, backing vocals

Glen Matlock – bass on "Anarchy in the UK"

Johnny Rotten – lead vocals

Sid Vicious – bass on "Bodies"

[psytrippskh602]

steve played bass and lead guitar when the recorded never mind the bollocks. legend

[MrGerado43]

What. Nice one mate. Had no idea they did this.

[cheriansrule]

I think his talent with those six strings is extreamly underated

[redpunk1]

As this is only half the Sex Pistols...ladies and gentlemen.THE SEX PI's

[MENSFORTHHILL99]

Cook and Jones: Simply add three chords, one Marshall, Les Paul and COOK for 3 mitutes. Ready to serve.

[netjerk]

Isn't that the 2 guys from the Sex Pistols that no one cares about?

[MOJUL68]

Well I would'nt say no to Steve Jones...Bloody gorgeous.

[sargentpepperzxD]

2:27 lolz 

[Atombombmother]

I really hate how these guys really don't get it. Johnny Rotten was the brains behind the operation. Steve and Paul were excellent musicians though. Sid Viscious was Johnny Rotten's joke, but at least he sort of understood that. I guess the complementary skills of them all made the band great. Split them apart though and they really are an abortion.

[vagoperezoso]

yeah, they matured by the time they made this song

they weren't kids anymore

[melgibsonsballs]

You can see that thier musical talent has improved in this.

[OttoRamone94]

oi someone out there who can say me on which guitar jonesy plays here?

i think its a gibson les paul custom, aight?

[SpringSummer2010]

Brilliant

[matelot95]

Surely this is The Professionals and not the Pistols?

[Monchi2006]

wish u had left what came after the song

[IGSTA1970]

This song was actually a very grown up comment on the pathetically sad demise and death of Sid Vicious.

[TailsPunk]

@IGSTA1970 No, wrong, it's about Steve, Paul wrote it.

[MrSpringburn]

youve really gone and done it now!

[missSuchashame]

<3 cheers

[malhutch1]

It's the big hair that I can't get over. Just Cook and Jones finally getting to do what they wanted to do and play in a rock band.

[w1o5w6]

I can't get it why does Sid gets so much respect,the only thing he had was image,he wan't a musician but a poser.For Johny Rotten respect though!!!!

[blackmaster666]

wow!!!!ive never seen this clip!!!!!

thanks for the upload!!!!

[johntheboymac]

this song shows you that the brilliant sex pistols could sing and play good music

[8091b]

 amazing song!

[ssexandviolence]

vocals is paul cook

but i think he prefer don't sing in the video

[mayunasex]

１，２，３・・・行け行けー

[cgl51]

are just the guitarist and drummer of sex pistols

[darrentribble]

if your 38 to 58 this was classic jones & cook love them

The Ginger Prince

[reditch]

This is how punk becomes pop!!!

Kum on Steve WTF were u thinking???

[nicademus666]

This is actually the first incarnation of the Professionals with Dave Goodman.

[badsocks07]

Reading the footnotes from Kiss This , Originally called "Silly Cunt" about Malcolm or Sid. Gotta love that classic Pistols riff

[scallywag86]

what was steve hooked on?

[sambatterson]

Really. They seem to being fine right here without "sid n john".

[sidwasinnocent79]

they fucking sucked without sid n john, this is the equivalent of a massive cow shit puked up by ron jeremy cause it was shoved up ron jeremys ass by a barnys powerful jizz shot

[rockufaler]

sellouts

[SignalMediaPortal]

This is definitely great archival footage but a horrible moment for The Sex Pistols...Malcolm McLaren just making a buck off these guys.

I'm sure they got squat for this....sad but true.

[THENORTHERNSOULKTF]

sold out

[migrainband]

so what, thats a load of bollocks 'selling out'

[CaptainDiscount]

I HAVE to listen to pretty vacant now lol

[MrMemis]

I never knew this was the sexy pistols

[mackiex]

which one is sexier?

[MrMemis]

eww im a guy, i won't answer that.

[mackiex]

@MrMemis then why are you calling them the sexy pistols???

[MrMemis]

i don't know, i sounded kinda gay didn't i?

[niely69]

He"s over there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheBillfer]

he wasdead this is for him rip sid

[rubberflag]

where's Sid??

[stoneroses13]

rubberflag:

in the graveyard

[redpunk1]

kind of...he was cremated though its rumoured that his ashes was spread over nancys grave,also rumoured that his mother dropped his urn at the airport and his ashes were scattered there aswell.

[Aliceinchains1234]

lol @ steve's hair.

[IntellectualAmy]

Yes...LOL

[CrazyLEDs]

yet again the UK produced something other countries have tried to produce but failed miserably.....fucking cmon!!

[Hilts59]

squeezing the last drops out of the thing..its a shame though...they had more to offer..

[mikes1962]

They're acting like rock stars and the Pistols were all about mocking rock stardom.

[IntellectualAmy]

That's true. The concept was to mock, and laugh at the established order which in the UK at the time was Elton John, Rod Stewart, and Roxy Music. Unfortuneately, the likes of Elton John are still here. Alas.

[waspin69]

@mikes1962 Its called irony mike. Surely you can see that.

[PetitGrisMoineau]

@mikes1962 There's nothing wrong with acting like rock star until you write music you like and don't care too much about other people's opinion and record's selling. There are a lot of ROCK bands of that kind, not only punks. But you right about Jones and Cook. I can hardly imagine Sid acting like that.

[Ratt1971]

second time i seen it since kid

superultruthanx

[Monsterpop]

absolutely magnificent!

one of THE best rock songs ever written, FACT!

[Vijaysuper]

Thought it was about John Lydon leaving?

[phreaker92]

where is rotten ? or sid? or sid came later?

[redpunk1]

This was after the pistols split up so no rotten and also after Sid had died.There was a whole plethora of single releases long after the Pistols existed in any form and,in some cases,not even involving any of the pistols(ten pole tudor).

[phreaker92]

this is fuckin good . very nice song . but.. RIP Sid :(

[leesurman]

@phreaker92 thats it!!! no sid, no rotten. just the pure SEX PISTOLS!!!

[gers701]

@phreaker92 SID WAS DEAD HONEY!!!



[STRUMMERandVICIOUS]

Album version sounds better

[louiscfc93]

wer gibsons shit cheap back then coz i noticed lots of punk guitarists had them

[paulsimonon82]

I don't think they were cheap at all, but I do know that Steve stole his white Les Paul, along with a shit load of other guitars he used a short while in the earlier days... Think I've seen him with a Flying V, another Les Paul (sunburst), Les Paul Jr. Doublecut, and some others in the very early days, 75-76.. And later on he maybe got the money to actually BUY new guitars, I don't know.. I think that some of the later Les Pauls he used were made by Burny (Fernandes), some japanese brand!

[godofslumber]

@paulsimonon82  He didn't steal the white Les Paul. Malcolm McLaren got it from Syl Sylvain of the N.Y. Dolls. He traded it in return for a plane ticket home from Florida when the Dolls called it quits. He then gave the guitar to Steve when the Pistols were formed. Syl told me the story in Detroit himself...

[paulsimonon82]

Oh, ok, thanks for the info! I know that he stole a lot of equipment, so I just assumed that he stole that one as well, since it seems like he used it since the very begining. :) I also heard that he stole a guitar from Bob Marley, have you heard that story? Don't know if it's true though, do you know something about it?

[paulsimonon82]

btw, dude, I was just reading an interview with Steve done by Gibson! Steve said exactly the same thing that you told me! Again, thanks ;)

[Fallinldols]

what am i the only one who thinks this reminds me of 80s hair metal bands? this is not the pistols without johnny and sid.

[tugsandtost]

I agree with you slightly. It has all the best bits of Twisted Sister but it rocks harder and is funnier.

[hiitsmehi]

yeh ur right mate this video isnt punk this video in my opinion is fucking shit

[SultanChase]

You faggot!

[Monsterpop]

your a fuckin numptie then!

[louiscfc93]

sid ? lol glenn matlock you mean

[Fallinldols]

yeah i guess... didnt he write most of the bass parts to the sex pistols song anyway?

[louiscfc93]

he wrote most of the stuff full stop.you notice after he left they never wrote another decent song with rotten,sid,cook and jones.this is a great song but after glenn left the sex pistols as we know them never wrote another song worth knowing about

[redlory426]

nice song

[Thejbirdy]

Just Paul and Steve? It's the Sex Pis....

LOL

[palinlfc]

great tune

[Nofutureforyou1]

Lol @ there hair.

[thevillan53]

it was written by paul about steve, paul has said so himself in more recent interviews

[markboylepotb]

The song was originally meant to be an "anti" Christmas single as well as about their own messed up lives, but due to Virgin screwing up, it was withheld for the GR&RS film launch.

They rerecorded the song because Virgin felt Paul's vocals were too 'soft' for a "punk" single; so people would buy the 'alternate' version; & finally to change the line 'one of these days you're gonna die', which they didn't want misinterpreted as being about Sid (who died the previous month)

[007InMiami]

I thought Paul sounded a lot better than Steve. I can't see them presenting this song to John though. And John would have been horrified at Lonley Boy.

[hiitsmehi]

yeh i heard it was about sid too

[secondwindrecords]

I've also heard it was about Sid, and that the original titel was "silly c**t "...

& Sid really had gone and overdunnit.

[ElVelVetGuns]

aguanten los sex pistolsss ArGeNtInA Bs As y no vengan con la porqueria del reggeaton

[Ultraviolennta]

steve has a excellent voice ♥

[peterf91z]

I love this song but i dident know that Steve sang this song too

[redpunk1]

Yep,I believe Steve sang on the single version and Paul sang on the album version(from THE GREAT ROCK N ROLL SWINDLE album).

[TailsPunk]

@redpunk1 The Paul verson is better!

[redpunk1]

Correct,Paul is the blonde one.

[clarisa07anko]

Could somebody tell me the names of these guys?

[redpunk1]

Its Steve Jones and Paul Cook.Members of the Sex Pistols and The Professionals.

[clarisa07anko]

Thnx! but acutally ..... I can't identify them, Paul is the blonde one? :O

[louiscfc93]

this is random but wouldnt it of been amazin if steve replaced mick jones in the clash

[louiscfc93]

and the only people in the pistols tht wer any gd wer steve and paul anyway

[mutatenow]

A great song about the tragedy of excess. Thanks for posting.

[TeamTomat0]

okay

[redpunk1]

I think Sid was probably otherwise engaged.

[TeamTomat0]

Why is it only steve and paul on this video?

[redpunk1]

good point.Its quite possible that Steve Jones played both bass and guitar thus leaving us with just 2 musicians.

[ullathorne]

Maybe because its only Steve and Paul who could do anything. :)

[adeworks]

Glen Matlock was a good bassist and helped write a lot of the songs. John came up with the lyrics - and to be fair was the soul of the Pistols

[redpunk1]

Agreed,in truth it was Glen and John who were the driving force of the Pistols but you may note that the songs are always credited to all four members.

[louiscfc93]

ye.much better thn sid

[adeworks]

It's actually about Sid. He was dead by then, and John had left the band.

[louiscfc93]

it was acually written by a friend of steve about his drug addiction.who would write about sid fs

[rugshort]

Written by who. I heard Andy Allen of the profs played on this.

[LiquidDreamsUK]

The guitar is a Burny. Top notch Jap copy of a Gibson Les Paul. Arguably better...

[sourpips]

no its not its a les paul lol

[coatbridgemadman]

in th booklet i got with th album SPUNK it was either Steve or Paul said this song was about Sid!

[befrane]

do u know which kind of guitar is steve playing? it looks like a gibson, but it doesn't sound like that...

[redpunk1]

I'm no expert but it probably is a gibson...youtube probably isn't the best place for "sound" anyways.

[befrane]

you're right..it's not one of the best places to listen to something on a good quality... yeah, perhaps it's a gibson, and the "strange sound" is caused by something about pick ups or the amplification...thanx XD

[jonesmh123]

i liked it more when paul sang it but it still sounds great

[mancsmoveseast]

No Sid,no Jonny,buy what a good song!!!!!!!!!!

[tinchoguitar5]

great video i ve never see it before.love how steve play,his les paul are stolen!!that s fuckin cool!!

[extremeshorty]

one of Daniel Radcliffe's favortie bands...gave me a headache.

[knup20]

paul is the man...

[MOJUL68]

Heck is Steve gorgeous or what?

[redpunk1]

what??? hee hee.

[CrazyBris]

what year??

[PandaPistol77]

Cook and Jones are FUCKIN AMAZING!!!

i LOVE them!!

[od666666]

great! thanks

[rockinbonesvideo]

Thanks for posting this! Never seen it before. I've seen the video/heard the version with Paul on vocals from The Great Rock and Roll Swindle but never this.

[CCIsAPunkRocker]

I love it with Steve and Paul, don't get me wrong it would sound ok with Johnny Rotten, but it wont sound the same

[plpra79]

I had hair like that in those days. Havent got the fat he has now.

[coshthedriver78]

steve jones isnt fat,he is just broad and

stocky,you blind fucker.

[Youngandwilde]

i luv you man!

[suzystoys]

They played their first gig in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Not exactly The Ritz, that place!

[paulprac]

wasn't that their last gig? Christmas day?

[redpunk1]

yes,it was their last uk gig before they imploded in America.They actually did 2 gigs on xmas day at the same venue,did an early gig for the kids,think it was a benefit for the firemen.

[jockandcarol]

UPPER CLASS - upper class ! The Pistols ?? is that bloke mad ? you couldnt get any lower down the ladder than them blokes , straight from the gutter,and a classic song too may i

add.

[rab251166]

one of my favourite punk songs.

[RockAndRollMassacre]

Who remembers Legs and Co dancing to this on TOTP.

[redpunk1]

I thought it was a (proper) pistols song they danced too..maybe not but I certainly remember it,thankfully,I do not have that on vid.

[pestcontrolltd]

I'm sure Legs and Co done Something Else also. Always thought it was a downer waiting to see my favourite bands only to see a bunch of arty female dance school types dancing to the tune(s) instead. Didn't have a video, too expensive in that era so every group appearance was usually only a one or two time thing that had to be cherished.

[oodled]

i'm fearful that it was!! Eddie tudorpole NOW THERE was an artiste . i think he wrote the lyrics all by himself . ROCK'N'ROLL SWINDLE? NOT 'ALF

[oodled]

bamboolex what the fuck are you on about? if you dont know what your talking about or dont like the video fuck off somewhere else

[becks5018]

was this the one with 'who killed bambi' on the B side?

[bamboozlex]

Buch of upper class twits pretending to be rebellious. Pathetic.

[redpunk1]

Upper class?? Steve Jones??? I think not!

check yer history.

[giantplanet]

lol you tit

[dfzorra]

posers!

[MurrayWeenr]

sucks!!!

[perthgloryboy]

Tinyweener....you SUCK, weeners that is!!!

[GoBackToHell]

Oh, you silly thing! You really gone and done it now

[SoldierofFortune07]

Great song more like

thanks man

[teresa5251]

great video!!