the Sex Pistols - Belsen Was A Gas
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2008
- This is The Sex Pistols Live at Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas, TX. Tuesday, January 10, 1978 Pt.3
Actually this show starts with the song "God Save The Queen" but begins to be filmed in 'EMI', there is some footage of the early songs, TV programs made by reporting the show, but not completely recorded.
With these others are not cut.
Set List:
God Save the Queen-no recording
I Wanna Be Me-no recording
Seventeen-no recording
New York-no recording
EMI
Bodies
Belsen Was a Gas
Holidays in the Sun
No Feelings
Problems
Pretty Vacant
Anarchy in the U.S.A.
No Fun
"They said no one could be more bizarre than Alice Cooper, or more destructive than Kiss... they have not seen the Sex Pistols. Tuesday night, Stone City Attractions presents live, the Sex Pistols. Banned in their own home country, England's Sex Pistols, denied admittance to the United States, the Sex Pistols bring the new wave to the Metroplex this Tuesday night, in the Longhorn Ballroom. They said it couldn't happen, but it happens Tuesday night: the Sex Pistols, live." - Radio promo
By this point in the tour, Sid Vicious, the least talented member of the band, was receiving most of the attention onstage. Other members of the band were getting fed up with his narcissistic attitude. Before the show, Steve threatened to punch him for focusing on himself and not the music. Sid hit the bottle hard before the show tonight. Being in Texas once again, he and Johnny found it appropriate to mock the "cowboys" in attendance. About half of the 1,800 in the crowd were fans, and the other half were country & western fans defending their territory against these British punks. There were also about 100 police on hand.
Tonight's performance was more of a circus than a rock show, a love-fest compared to the volatile San Antonio show. John wore an ugly pink shirt and a black glove for most of the show, while Steve wore all black, including boots, spurs, and a sheriff's star. With "Gimme a Fix" on his bare chest, Sid barely played his bass and seemed more interested in jumping around instead of performing music. Plastic cups and other assorted objects flew toward the stage for the duration of the performance. (No glass bottles were sold.) The show was all about spectacle; music was secondary.
At the end of "Holidays in the Sun," Sid got head-butted by a overzealous fan and received a bloody nose. Instead of wiping up the mess, he let the blood flow down his body, smearing it on his face and spitting it into the crowd. Johnny remarked, "Look at that... a living circus." During "Pretty Vacant," Sid took a broken bottle and vehemently carved his chest. Iggy would've been proud. He removed the pus-soaked bandage from his arm and threw it into the hapless crowd. The other band members continued the show. Although he contributed next to nothing musically, Sid knew he was stealing Johnny Rotten's limelight, which was more important to him at that point.
After a blistering version of "Anarchy in the U.S.A.," the band left the stage, and, surprisingly, the crowd yelled for more. As the band reappeared for an encore, Sid showed the audience an obscene gesture and Steve yelled, "You must be mad to want more of us!" In the middle of "No Fun," Steve confronted a heckler by throwing a couple punches and jabbing him with the headstock of his guitar.
The next morning, the Dallas newspaper read: "Most of the people last night came to see the people who came to see the Sex Pistols." - เพลง
I love how Rotten always ends this song awkwardly and stares into the crowd to see their reaction. 😂
tHiS oNe'S cAlLeD bElSeN
oNe tWo tHrEE fOuRR
Oh, it’s fancy text.
@@juantruenos463 not helped by the fact he was totally shit-faced x
I tend to associate early punk with sloppy live performances but this is everything you want from a live performance. Really impressed.
Nobody Cares ..
Ha na
It really is, all of the years I knew about this band and I never heard this one song it blew me away, very tight performance, Steve plays every note perfect, and the way Johnny sings this is flawless, way better than the Winterland audio for sure
It’s cuz they’re all actually mad as hell, that’s why it’s such a perfect performance
You’re thinking of early 80s American punk. 70s punk for the most part is composed of very tight bands.
"I don't see enough people - "
"THIS ONE'S FOR BELSEN!"
Called not for
The live sound engineer has done good here.
love how sid just blasts over johnny 1 2 3 4 and the band jumps right in
AND Steve. Oh, shit.. jumps right in lol
I didnt see that?!
The Death Squad we will never know, doubt he would remember now anyway.
Me to
Sid wos mum gave him H so he didnt get sodimized in a NY prison, wake up pop kid JR was the only real punk
Love the raw overdrive of Steve Jones' guitar.
Greatest sound ever.
Concur
Sid counting the song in like a badass hahaha.
...or like a junkie
Or like a guy in a band counting off a song.
Brewzerr yes. A junky member of a band. Just facts.
@Philip Holmes Wow you guys sure showed me over a passing, non-serious comment. 4 years later.
Extremely underrated song
Johnny Rotten + Sid Vicious = Punk
This is their best song and performance.
Yup, it really is
your not wrong he sung this one from his heart
in a uk interview when asked about this song, lyndon said, this is a song that shouls never of been written, i am ashamed of it, or something to them words, its a long time ago now.
@@phildempsey9197 yes your correct....the only song he wished he never written sed it was nasty👍
By far
XD Sid totally wrecked Johnny's speech!
John was saying "I don't see enough people dancing!"
Who said they couldn't play??? This is pretty fucking tight!
Played slower than the released. It's a good version here
ahh... Malcolm
Sid Couldnt Play.,. Thats Why He is Turned down to Non Existent.,.
@@paullack9025 this is true. They turned Sid’s amp all the way down.
sid could not only play he wrote the song
Steve Jones is a world class guitarist.
John Lyndon can sing, perform, and emote better than just about anyone.
Paul Cook could belt the drums hard and still keep spot on time.
Even after Glen Matlock the bass playing, song writing genius left, Sid could keep time with Cookie and look cool.
Anyone saying the Sex Pistols couldn’t play can meet me out back. I’ll take you on one at a time or you can all hold hands, either way is fine by me.
I hate this narrative that they couldn't play. They played and they played better than Any punk band out there
Sids one move… arm up jumping back…
This is so dark… too dark…
Sid was good at that 1234
Sid wrote the original words
And the music too
Abd the music
I can tell.
@@royalston2324 No. Sid's friend, and later PiL guitarist, Keith Levene wrote the music.
cant jam to this song without sid's intro
Sid wrote it, so he was proud, and could play it.
Didn't know that fact.
Sid didn't write this song. He didn't write any of the Pistols songs.
I know he's credited on both Holiday In The Sun and Bodies, along with Cook, Jones and Rotten, but that's because they credited all songs to every member of the band.
Sid never wrote any song for the Pistols and he never played on the Never Mind The Bollocks album as he wasn't good enough.
Steve Jones played a lot of bass on the Bollocks album, along with a session musician.
While Rotten was in the band all of the songs were written by Rotten, Matlock and Jones.
@kevanbrown7620 Johnny has said that Sid did write 'Belsen', and Johnny has disowned it. Steve and producer Chris Thomas have both said that Sid played some bass on 'Bollocks', but it was buried in the mix under Steve's better bass lines. It has been rumored that Glen was asked back in to play bass on the album, which would have resulted in even better results, as Steve pretty much mostly just sat on root notes throughout. Glen by contrast was a very good fingers only player.
@@johnnyoranges I believe you're right about Belsen Was A Gas.
When you think of their 2 songs 'influenced' by their visit to Berlin, Holidays In The Sun and Belsen, Lydon's Holidays In The Sun is a much better and more intelligent lyric than Belsen Was A Gas.
I love it that people still talk about the Sex Pistols.
All the best and take care.
@@kevanbrown7620 I think the lyrics were co-written by Sid, or maybe started by Sid, then John took it over, adding better lyrics.
I'm glad someone below has pointed out that 'Belsen Was a Gas' was written by Keith Levene & Sid. The others had reservations about it, maybe why it was never properly recorded.. The best Pistols footage here!
Well its just shock value, the other pistols songs were very clever too, this wasnt on the level of those good dark riff tho
Sud wrote some words I've seen them handwritten I'm not sure if Keith wrote I think when public image ltd did there version words were different and keith and John wrote new lyrics in parts of the version of the song
Sid words were the first verse of the song it had a different chorus
Pistols kicked down the doors down in the music industry! One of the greatest bands
The moment Sid counts in, Steve and Paul go straight into it.
Most excellent hard-rock song by the Pistols, love it
Its Punk Rock not Hard Rock :)
riderman0071 Games punk is hard rock
But its a nazi song
Severus Snape its not nazi but ABOUT nazi death camp. Sex pistols as a living scandal likes to piss off and shock those old english fart and grannies that's why vicious had swastika t shirt and Johnny had also. But they are not nazi band
@@Mika-rd7xb
nothing at all wrong with that
im JEWISH and i love that song. REALLY PUNK !
Yeah why not ? This is a anti nazi song
Damn right.
Ironic and sad and anger all in One.
@@Mika-rd7xb Nah. It was for shock value, pure and simple.
Do you want a rugelach or something?
This is without doubt the best version of the song
The best song by Sid and this is good that Sid was bassist
That fucking riff!!!!!
rightwingthug YEs
+rightwingthug It is a SS- Panzar assault !
Rip Sid Vicious I feel his pain you live for ever punk rock LEGEND
1:33: It's cool to see the time John could violently scream. It's a shame he blew out his voice after the Sex Pistols. Love his P.I.L voice too!
Jonesy great on guitar
Love the tone that Jonesy got with his hybrid double set of Fender Twin Reverb. Even if Malcolm sabotaged the tour, He played well, as Lydon once said “I love Steves playing, absolutely loved it. Ever now and again he would hit a bum note, but was clever enough to make it sound like it was supposed to be there”.
Steve’s tone both in the Pistols and in the Professionals was the greatest guitar tone *EVER*
Brewzerr -Cheers Brewszerr! “Sex Pistols Guitar Hero”!
T.J. Cooney Jr it was either Steve or Lydon that said “we were lucky that the guitar tone and vocals made a great match”. Very true
It's not too late, I will save U if U repent 😂
RIP sid
It's important to understand that much of what pistols/punk negativity amounts to is irony, or sarcasm. It's not blatant hate or sadism, but anger and shaking up a norm. How the line still gets a rise out of the uninitiated is a sign of its effectiveness. How the point can still get lost is a little saddening...
I get the impression that part of the lyrics are about him wanting to die himself, or have us all face our own - gladness for death as acceptance of death itself - we can laugh at evil.
The song was about a 2nd World war death camp
@@user-gw8xv6qg4v and one that looms particularly large in the British psyche so to speak, because the British Army liberated that one, burned the buildings with flamethrowers cause of rampant typhus. Same camp Anne Frank died in, I believe.
The British public was especially horrified knowing that the Nazis made propaganda depicting the camp as a happy place, hence the line: "life is fun and I wish you were here/they wrote on postcards to those held dear"
I think the closing rant about "be a man, kill someone, kill yourself" is probably the most important part of the song in a way. Apparently some neo Nazi shit-rock band actually covered this song later on, even tho it is most certainly not a pro Nazi song by any means.
Great song and very relevant now as ever.
Life is fun and I wish you were here!
New box set every track is amazing
Yes, well I am referring to the ad-libbed lyrics that Johnny adds in this particular version. He is speaking directly to the audience in a perfect fit of angst and caution.
People have noted that the American punk scene was already at least five or six years old by the time they did this show, but when you compare that to what was happening over in London, it is a totally different thing. This was down in the Southland in the late 1970s; it was incredibly downhome style back then. Not to mention if you actually watch the raw footage of the locals outside of these venues, the crowds were absolutely insane, every place ended in complete mayhem. Steve Jones himself has said many times over the years that he was actually in fear for his life on a few occasions due to how violent some of the more hardliner cowboys egging them on. He admitted that McLaren had the right idea for the tour being in the South; the problem was, he had absolutely no idea what the hell he was doing and was rarely, if ever, involved in maintaining any kind of organised security for the band.
I think for many of us, especially those of us such as myself who have played in bands, we tend to think of your average punk show and how run-of-the-mill and “normal” chaos at shows can be. But the Pistols were first wave, they were not used to such low-end, disorderly, DIY-style atmosphere. They actually wanted a real music career and a lot goes into organising a successful live performance for signed bands on major labels. For the environment in which they were immersed, this was completely haphazard and unacceptable. To compound all the unnecessary chaos, they weren’t even being paid; a lot of that was pocketed by McLaren. Just imagine you’re in their shoes: 19 or 20 years old (that is how young they were here) catapulted practically overnight into the world of celebrity stardom, and you aren’t getting any of the usual amenities that go with that rock n’ roll star lifestyle.
@homie3461 yes the ramones started punk rock but it didnt get big until pistols hit and sid especially created huge publicity and notoriety for punk that is still the foundation of people's general perception of punk.
Some tough guitar from Steve.
Always a tough tone with Steve, at least up until 1983 or whenever it was he played in Chequered Past.
'join the army'
It's 4 fuckin chords
What a foundation for future careers!
Just like on the record. Well done !
This shows how there weren't any PC shit in them days....I miss em!
this is why we have it now mr. whitemale
sexobscura conform and obey
The Sex Pistols pushed an inclusive, leftist agenda. This song is supposed to be ironic, the biggest shame for early punk is that it goes over the heads of people listening to it now, imprinting their own values on to it. Lydon is probably pretty baffled by it.
The odious stench of your comments. “Mr Whitemale”. Firstly, ‘white’ is a misnomer; second of all, if u think for a second that would fly in the face of punks back then, you’re deluding yourself. It’s cultural Marxism. And a lot of punk was misplaced anger. “qUeStiON EveRytHInG!” (except, of course, WWII)
Max Cox Ha ha ha😆😆😂 You knob.! My dads from India! Some “whitemale” eh?
So Great
Cookie/Jones are top 10 rock guitarist/drummer all time. Tougher than it looks and these two crushed it.
The greatest rock ' n' roll band ever. SeX PiStOLs
Love it
Looked like Steve was loving it .
i wish i didnt have to press replay to listen to this again
My grandparents banned my Dad and Uncle from buying this record, they did anyway.
Sid: "1,2,3,4" LOL
superb
Belson...one of the best kick ass..RIF's iv ever lernd to play..I still..love it after all thees years..Orsum
Now you just need to learn to spell and you're laughing.
Sid wrote " ha ha ha ha ha ha ha"
authentic... nothing more, nothing less....
This is why I rate Slayer's Angel of Death the 2nd best song about the Holocaust.
know any other good ones?
Dachau Blues
Sid write this
He wrote first two verses,and John then wrote the rest of the words.
This is surreal
« Hahahah » love that part of the song 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Just plad along to belson..still maiks my hers stand on end such a kick ass song to play ..I still love it after 40 years of first learning it..I love the boys..not like thee panseys now lol.warren your graitast fan..
I wish I could like this a hundred times, up to the top
I wait for an adaptation : "GAZA WAS A GAS" !
Like ur country france was a gas in the 40s and now
Lyrics by Sid, guitar riff by Keith Levene. PIL used to play this song too.
Sid is the one who gives the order to start the song being the last member to join the band
The best
They set the bar..
🇬🇧This should be our countries national anthem - straight up.
Oh dear
agency work sets you free , my struggle x
You can find it on the recently released Never Mind The Bollocks Deluxe Edition
ahh heaven!!!
Wow this is surprisingly tight!
Most live recordings of the Pistols are very tight.
Oh dear.
I don't know why, but this song makes me laugh.
It's amazing how the Sex Pistols weren't seen as a "serious " band by some people in the late 70s.. They were THE MOST "SERIOUS " BAND AROUND ACTUALLY.. !!!
I'm terrified that Johnny Rotten will die, he is king and already 66 years old
EMI is heavy metal
How the FUCK have I never heard this song before?
Get the soundtrack to "The Great Rock n Roll Swindle", it's on there. There's also a demo version on a recent reissue of Never Mind the Bollocks...
because your not 45?
Edwin Kaye it as nothing to do with the age ? I'm 17 & I heard this song when I was just 7 or 8 .
UneedaMedicalSupply The demo is crap. This version is the best.
I've never really listened to the demo version, so I wouldn't know. I just know it's on there and thought it was worth a mention. It can't be worse than the version with Ronnie Biggs.
One of the best pistols songs, Imagine if you sang this song now, you’d “hurt to many people’s feelings” and get banned 😂
bitch they were already banned in 1977 what the fuck are you talking about
@@redvelvetunderground yeah but now there would be more hate on them
Bruh what the fuck are you talking about
@@CDB-yb8gv johnny rotten was literally attacked in the street and almost killed as a result of the entire country cancelling them over god save the queen, like people thinking this song is tasteless in 2021 can't compare but sure jan
They did get banned.
SID JUST JUMPS RIGHT FUKIN IN THERE LOL
Paul Cook!
Damn....
One of the the ones he due play along with..did an Steve rote the Songe together listen cerfull u can her SIDS bass
AHHAHAHAHA...OHHH AHAHAHAHAAA...the coolest laugh eva'
Самая лучшая группа
perfectly ironic, anarchy.
It was so ahed of it's time,the punk music.
You go first
there will always be an england
The empires already gotten way smaller. If you are so sure about world history for the future of forever write a book and let us know wtf to expect
*Bonglandistan
apparently mr. beverely wrote this charming little run of words for some reason beyond reason
it's as meaninglessly fun as *bodies*
sexobscura I read this on Wikipedia, about the lyrics..
Belser Was A Gas was written to
outrage that generation they believed were responsible for many of the ills within Britain at that time by writing about highly sensitive or controversial subject matter.
I know this comment is extremely old, but Bodies wasn't meaningless.
Bodies was an anti-abortion song, sort of.
@@xharleshasxov780 It was a song about choice
bodies is an anti abortion song
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My youth.....was a blast!..its wasted on the young 😃
Good old punk with never die
Jones can really play guitar!
Cookie & The Crumbs
Seeing this in the swindle back in 1988 I did not know the song title when I bought the swindle album and heard live version at winterland which was on the album I knew then it was belsen was a gas
They only showed a brief clip in the swindle the be a man a real man bit
ERNiEEEE LED
remarkably good all things considered.
Always wondered what a Bollocks type production done in the studio would have sounded like. But the live Swindle one was immense and the best performed song on their last gig, just my opinion. It was in your face.
Well, there was that studio demo version that was included in the deluxe edition reissue of Bollocks that came out about 6 years ago. The one with the really weird vocal take. The music itself sounds great, but like I said, the vocals sound like they were recorded in an empty airplane hangar.
@@Brewzerr Sounds like the cover versions from the Swindle before they got knocked into shape for release. Wondering if anyone could bring Lydon's vocals out better with less reverb
@@Kelly14UK Well the technology is definitely there, but something tells me there's a lot of licensing bullshit and red tape getting in the way, as is typically the case with the Pistols' recordings.
fucking great
guess who's dead, guess who's glad
my that's the meanest song i heard recently
Sorry,this song does funny things to me '-) What a song!