STEVE JONES '57 LES PAUL CUSTOM AT THE SEX PISTOLS FIRST FLAT IN LONDON!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- Although it's commonly understood that Steve Jones used his famous white Les Paul Custom to record the vast bulk of Never Mind the Bollocks, Armand Serra joined us today to reveal a little secret part of Punk's most iconic history! Filmed in Chateau Denmark's soon to be new Sex Pistol flat/hotel room, we thought it was the perfect setting to understand the guitar's history, how it came to be and all that the new era of Denmark Street has to offer in the form of what will be an iconic part of Denmark Street's new legacy....
Hosted by the amazing Missy Keating!
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I have just bought a fender Twin Reverb that used to belong to Steve Jones. It’s so fkn LOUD, and SO HEAVY!! It’s the one he wrote THE BOSS on the grill when he was on The Professionals, and I have the authentication. It’s in a flight case given to him by Joe Strummer so has The Clash logo and pink spray all over, under the current Sputnik paint job (which I love).
Can we ask how much you paid ?
So good they’re making a U-Turn on the original plans for Denmark Street. I cried a bit when I went there and the Intrepid Fox was gone. Now to see the 12 Bar back to looking like something promising is a joy.
The Intrepid Fox pub was in Wardour Street,not Denmark Street.
@@mjh5437 And when that became a Byron, the management opened one in Denmark street in 2006 that closed down in 2014. Then they opened near Archway tube station but that didn’t last long. I guess you learned something new today.
@ 12:50 - That isn't a caricature of Johnny, it's supposed to be Malcolm McLaren, which is why he's got 'Muggerage' written next to him, AKA Muggerage McLaren......as well as the fistful of cash, it's obviously McLaren 👍
The white LP was also used, Jonesy did many overdubs. The pics are just the initial rhythm tracks being recorded
Nevermind the Bollocks is an album i still listen today and it sounds great even after 38 years when i first bought it.
Yessss⚡️
They can play well sid was not great but better than what people said don't believe the hype sex pistols are amazing
Wrong... the "Muggerage" drawing on the wall is of Malcolm Maclaren NOT Rotten himself
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Actually he did McClaren and a self portrait
Great story, glad to confirm that the guitar is indeed a '57. According to a recent Jonesy's Jukebox interview with J.C Curleigh, Steve acquired the guitar from Orange Music on Shaftesbury Ave or New Compton for £800.00, and the guitar would have been acquired very likely in March, 1977. It is first pictured with Steve on 3rd, April '77 at the Screen on the Green gig. Interestingly, the infamous "Ariel Bender" double cut Special with custom inlay work disappeared from photos around the same time so perhaps it went on part-ex toward the '57 LP. The "Flying V" shot mentioned near the end of the video was taken 24th Oct, '76 at their demo session with Chris Spedding, and the Flying V was given to Steve by Nora Foster.
The ‘Ariel Bender’ one ended up with Mick Jones from The Clash, who gave it to Pete
Wylie from Wah! Heat because he didn’t have a guitar.
@@adamwalters5850 Cool, always wondered where that ended up.
Steve Jones owned a Les Paul before this. In late 76 he handed it to Dave Goodman who gave it to the punk band Eater , that he also produced. That one was auctioned in 2010 at Christie's.
@@gavinreid5387 Steve's first Les Paul was the ivory '74 Custom that came to him via Malcolm; he got that guitar in mid to late '75. You are correct about the other LP, it was a sunburst early '70s Custom with a Bigsby vibrola fitted. The back cover plate is inscribed with Wally Nightingale's name.
@@gavinreid5387 It was sold to Eater for £50! I play with Andy Blade so I asked him loads about it🤣 it was he that sold it via Christie’s. He said it weighed a ton & the bigsby made it go out of tune constantly so he changed it.
When those overdriven P-90’s hit.. holy.
Pleasure to discover that the biting guitar sound on Bollox is P90. Thank you so much. ♥️😊♥️
I've spent a lot of time in that street since the early 70's.
Saw the Pistols in 76.
Which venue ??
Cap
This video just popped up in my recommendations. What a brilliant channel. Loads of material for this guitar nut to catch up on! 👍
I knew about the existence of this guitar but not the back story. This video was an absolute joy to watch. Beautifully put together. Couldn't dream of being able to film in a more appropriate and historic location. Makes it so much more than just watching folks chat about a guitar. Keep up the good work folks, hope you're able to come up with more incredible content like this. You've definitely gained a new subscriber here. Now to start catching up on all the stuff I've missed!!! 😎
Thank you for your kind words! Yes this is definitely the kind of content we want to be doing more of and we have plans for many more videos like this and also documenting the rebirth of Denmark Street and all that the new era has to offer once the development has been completed and everything is live!
Those pickups look like its a '54-'56 black beauty. Most beautiful guitar ever made, none the less.
"nonetheless"...one word.
@@mjh5437 bone apple tea
This is sick still remember the first time I heard the Sex Pistols
Me too 1977 I was eleven. First song what I heard was Pretty Vacant. It was hit to head like anything before.
After listening ABBA mostly I was what the hell?
Still listening sometimes.
After that I pick electric guitar.
Steve Jones first Les Paul was sold at auction in 2010 for just over £16k. When the Sex Pistols signed to EMI Jones sold the guitar to Brian Chevette , the guitarist with Eater .
After watching this, i ordered a pair of humbucker sized P90s for my black Les Paul copy so I can get the Steve Jones sound :)
Which ones you go for?
I just broke out "Never Mind the..." this morning...and listened to it in my car. Then BOOM this pops in my TH-cam scroll! Cool coincidence....or my smartphone's mic was stalking me🧐😮
Hipgnosis ..did i spell that right! did loads of iconic art cover albums ..world famous. So cool to see this.
Nice peace of rock ! Huge fan of Jonesy here
That’s a ‘54. P-90 in the bridge. Alnico “staple” in the neck. First reissued in ‘72. Numerous reissues from the 90s onwards. Are we cool now?
This looks like the guitar Steve Jones is playing in the video for 'Silly Thing' but it has a skull sticker on it? Aren't there plenty of pics and clips of Steve also playing a LP DC special with p-90's around the time NMTB was recorded? I thought that was the guitar he actually used to record NMTB.
Superb vid guys! Nice that youngsters are digging the pistols nowadays! Great hearty laugh too😀 I've seen the history of the practice room and graffiti before,what a find the French gentleman has there! Fantastic custom! Although I don't think for a second that was the only guitar Steve used on Wessex sessions! Photos superb only show a short space of time at any given moment 😜 they tracked on and off for weeks in studio when they could! Well done on this bit of rock history tho😀
If memory serves me correctly this is the Les Paul at the Dallas Longhorn gig too
Was also the guitar Billy Duffy used for sonice temple. He borrowed it from Steve Jones
12:45 That's not Johnny , It's Malcolm taking all the money. That's why it says Muggerage. as in Malcolm Muggerage . That's the joke
His name was Malcolm "Muggeridge" to be precise
This is awesome stuff! That actual Jonesy's black Les Paul & Those cool photos from Never Mind the Bollocks -studiosessions at Wessex. 😲🤩👍I've seen tons of Pistols' photos, but those I havent seen anywhere. Would be VERY nice To hear Steve's comments/stories when he sees this flick 😊
Fantastic video! I always thought it was the white custom he used on the recording of the album - everyday's a school day!
Incredibly beautiful guitar.
Thanks for sharing... this is amazing !
Amazing! I always presumed urpt was mostly the white one onbNMTB too! I'd love to know how the black Les Paul ended up for sale
Great vid. Very interesting. The guitar looks and sounds great. Cheers.
In 2019 I went to London to see the Stray Cats in Hammersmith. The following day I walked by Denmark Street to see the Pistols old haunt. It was being renovated and I asjed one of the builders if I could peek in the door. He dud better - he brought me in and showed me the whole place
Bodies has always been my favorite PiStOls track.6th grade 1977 I played bodies from my vinyl that I brought for lazy Friday,.when the fuck this fuck that hit my teacher flew across the room,I saved my record before she destroyed it!.I lied and told her that that was the first time I had listened to the album.haha.SeX PiStOls are the greatest rock n’roll band in the world.☠️X
When I saw the artwork I was amazed john did the pictures.i have in my collection rare French playing cards all in cartoon images
Great to see this...it offers hope.
Great video thanks.Steve Jones aka Guitar Hero.
I've got 259 items in my collection seen them live 6 times in reunion tours these items are gems.steve guitar was owned by one if the dolls. Thanks for this I've met John got a ticket autograph and met glen he signed his book and never mind the bollocks wish he signed spunk
Fuck yeahhhh ✨
@@SixtySixtySounds ok
Great pictures.i have a nice playing cards item from France 🇫🇷
It be nice to see those photos
Awesomeness as always!
I'm late to the party. Can someone clarify, where is this guitar these days? Who owns it these days?
Awesome 😎🎶🎼🎸🔥
Malcom Muggerage,nah that wasn`t about Johnny Rotten that was about Malcolm grabbing the bands cash as it shows in his hands
What a peace of history 🤘 I heard that the white Les Paul was owned buy Sylvain from the New York dolls
That’s right it was given to mc claren originally as some debt owed to mc claren by sylavain it was then given to Steve jones
I though heard that the white LP Custom was stolen from a Hawkwind gig.
The guitar playing is really good even sounds like steve in parts
Thxxx✨
Hi , whats the hipgnosis album cover , of the young victorian girl , in your frame with ufo and floyd ????
Not sure sorry!
Nice. I’m sure Gibson recently gifted Steve a custom shop version of this guitar.
Thought it was the white one plus the firebird the v as well.The P90 crunchy squeals in the multi tracks.
Little known fact, that's the same guitar that Billy Duffy of The Cult used for sonic temple, and featured on the album cover. He borrowed it from Steve Jones.
friggin in the riggin isn't even technically a pistols song that was after Johnny left and was not a reflection on what the pistols were about not even the same style of music but it is a funny song but it can't be called the pistols without Johnny he was the voice and the captain!!
This was awesome
So much 'X' to doubt with this I don't know where to start 😂
Eh that drawing in the far left is definitely Malcolm nice vid though and really beautiful guitar
Wow. !!!
Fascinating video. I thought that Malcolm McLaren only leased the place for a year (1976-1977) then Jones moved elsewhere. But there is 1979 graffiti in there about the 4" Be 2"s, 'Youngy' is Paul Young, one of the members, and 'Sarah' is probably Sarah Dallin, a friend of the band (she appeared in a band photo) and future Bananarama member. What is also odd is Rotten / Lydon had left the band by then and was taking McLaren / Jones / Cook to court so weird that he would spend time round there.
They had the flat upto at least 1980, Ed Tenpole rehearsed in there with cook n jones prior to them becoming the professionals. Also, during the court case Lydon Vs McLaren Cook n jones switched sides agreeing with Lydon & thats when Sex pistols residuals was conceived removing rights from 'Glitterbest', so they were speaking again after the san fran' argument, which was because they'd just played to 5000 people & been paid nothing. Maclaren famously taking all the cash he could upon his return to england, filling his pockets knowing he'd lose the case & fled to France.
Plus, the 'Keren' on the wall is likely Keren Woodward, who was also in Bananarama with Sarah 👍
love her
Who is she. A stunning looking girl
First one is McLaren but what a great job!
Great video👏🎶
Really well done!
That was a different story he told on another channel he said it was for sale in a guitar shop and he had to go to a wedding so he went the next day to the shop and bought it .
It was a fender twin reverb on 10 no orange amp
We only sell marshall and orange 😅
Armand , good to listen to you . Crazy Pig Designs was a good place to work .
sylvain sylvain possibly owned this guitar before steve jones, obviously thats where his white les paul came from, if you look at the cover of too much too soon by the new york dolls sylvain has a black les paul.
Interesting stuff, thanks.....
i'm sure the Pistols had a few French fans previously- they did play Paris in '76 !.....its very possible other guitars were used on 'Never Mind the Bollocks' - the lp tracks are from various sessions covering many months e.g. 'Anarchy in the UK' (with Glen Matlock on bass) was recorded around October '76, 'God Save the Queen' from early '77 .
The likely reason for Sid not being in the photos is he was in hospital due to Hepatitis for a while & they DID all play on some tracks
Most of the 'Audible bass' WAS played by Steve , he overdubbed what Sid had recorded ( though he did state Sid can be heard 'low in the mix' on Bodies)
Sid played on belsen demo 2 ge does sound good steve did bass and guitar on the bollocks
@@markgreet3543 the 1976 Paris gig ?....
@@andchat6241 paris gig was sept 1976
@@markgreet3543 where can you find a recording of it ? . I've got a few Pistols live tapes from '76 & the famous 'No Fun' -Manchester June '76 lesser free trade Hall gig on Vinyl .it was the first ' Sex Pistols LP ' to be released ( before the 'Spunk /No Future UK ' bootlegs & ' never mind the bollocks')
In the city of love Paris 1976 bootleg
what a place to live, even now.
and your shop across the road is great,,hope it does not move because of the rail?
Not going anywhere!
They have on the playing cards pics of pustols clash damned to name but a few lovely item
wonderful evidence.
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There’s SO FEW photos/movies of them in the Studio, unfortunately
Sid play belsen demo 2 takes its on the box set plays quite well on that track
Since everyone is talking about that damn guitar, I'm just gonna say that girl is every man's dream. Gorgeous
Agreed. Not very PC but she is a cutie.
She's iconic.
Missy Keating
She doesn't know that much about the Pistols for a "rabid" fan......but yea she's a looker
@@douglasfreeman3229 ...yeah , even pictures shown that virtually nobody has seen are 'Iconic !'
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Vagrants still live there .thanks for the tour
You're welcome!
This isn't right. Steve himself will tell you the white Les Paul Custom was used on most of NMTB. A Les Paul Black Beauty (NOT a 57...it was never a 57...it was a copy) was used on Bodies and EMI. Again, Steve has commented several times on this and even says he can spot the tonal difference on Bodies and EMI...
The guitar in this video, owned by Armand Serra, is the guitar that was owned by Steve Jones and is the guitar that is referred to by Steve as a Black Beauty. Same pickup configuration and serial number as the guitar he owned, it's essentially a '54 Custom but was produced by Gibson in 1957! As to which guitars were used on which tracks, I couldn't comment on that, but Armand is a guy who is very vigilant when it comes to his research before purchasing a guitar like this so I figure if anyone's gonna know it will be him, but who knows!
Frigging in the rigging isn't about Irish people at all, it's an old colonial ditty
It`s a Royal British Navy song.
And it has nothing to do with Lydon - as it was recorded a fair while after John ( & Sid) were out of the picture.....
IF THE WHITE LP WAS ON THE FLOOR IN THE STUDIO IT IS THAT HE USED IT WELL ON THE ALBUM, IF HE HAD PURCHASED THE WHITE LP HE WOULD HAVE HAD ANOTHER SPEECH
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She's cool ..so is that some London rebels still exists, not university snow flakes.. this is good stuff...loads of music stuff have been closed, down to shops and historic places in London through the times of rock music...as I played in a band in it...
Yes I would like to see the photos. Not 2 feet away
Hahah hahaa!!! That LP WAS BURNED !!!
"It's pretty iconic..."
😂😂 new drinking game!
@@SixtySixtySounds Don't tempt me. Haha.
@@SixtySixtySounds how has the flat been left like that especially in london ?
This is part of the redevelopment so this graffiti was always there it was just lurking beneath plasterboard as the room was used for other things over the years... Now it has been taken back to the way it was when the Sex Pistols lived there back in the 70s and it will become part of the new Chateau Denmark hotel that is opening next year on Denmark Street. This will be the Riot Room and you'll be able to stay there!
Regarding the graffiti '4 be 2' apart from being slang it was an ad hoc group that were sometimes 'produced ' by John Lydon & featured his brother Jimmy ,Martin 'Youth' Glover ,some future Bananaramas & were managed by Jock McDonald
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Lost Highway guy has a nice guitar lol.
The white les Paul Malcolm gave Steve before Lydon joined the band & most of those photos are live shots not studio & Steve used two guitars on the album & used the flying V when Glen was still in the band & the picture is Mclaren on the wall grabbing the money...& who the hell was on guitar one of the easiest things to play by the Pistols & he couldn't play it at all.
So p90s…good
To know
The man who bought Steve's guitar, kinda looks like "Sylvain Sylvain" from the Dolls.. Ironic, as Steve's white LP was originally Sylvain's!..
Yessss!
Are those P90's in that guitar?
yup!
Different machineheads
Her eyes glaze over when the Frenchie talks about a Flying-V guitar...hasn`t got a clue what he`s talking about 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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This video is full of inaccuarcies I'm afraid. One is as simple as the grafitti...Muggerage is Rottens drawing of Malcolm and not himself..so the research is undermined...the guitar..i'd take that with a pinch of salt too.
Everything in this life is open to interpretation... This is Steve Jones' guitar that was used at Wessex, what tracks it was used on, who knows! But having his guitar back in the flat the Sex Pistols rented in the 70s in 2021 is pretty sick!
Every thing you are saying will BE TAKEN WITH A PINCH OF SALT ......RUDY CAN'T FAIL!!!!!!!
Typical mid 1970s dirt cheap flat in London with the loo outside. Low ceiling. Exposed beams. Little or no heat.
Zero air con.
They still exist except now they cost you £2000 per month!
Now I know who nicked me 57 Les Paul you Rotten Johnny
They played in France in 1976 ..........so no fella your not the 1st
Sixty sixty family ooorah🔥🔥
She knows f all
Meant pistols
Man, Jonesy and Johnny were the talent. I'd love to play that axe.
And cookie
This would have been better without the girl getting in the way and chatting crap and huge inaccuracies. just saying ...
Nice graffiti. Fatty Jones and 4 be 2.
Pretty vacant....
Blah. Hipsters