Johnny Thunders - Sad Vacation (Live 1982)

[@snowmancometh3847]

I was up front for that show. Classic Johnny!

[@thSubliminalCriminal]

He still played that guitar like a beast

[@andyandcallie]

Johnny was such a quiet, gentle soul. So shy, so sweet. RIP, baby.

[@RHCPL92]

You can only love this guy ! RIP Johnny. One of the greatest.

[@badluckhoppy]

R.I.P Sid and Johnny

[@ufohighlights71]

What a great song, but one can't think "hey its cool being a junkie"!

[@jefrey5578]

It aint cool but it sure was fun!

[@nanayabieswechs7532]

yeah it's real fun til it aint funny no.more

[@mookhaze]

We miss you Johnny...

[@Mikeymoon12]

This is the best use of tremolo ive ever witnessed . Ever what a legend .

[@drewsfnkstuffs6954]

i want those fkn shoes!!! r.i.p JT i dont care how wasted or where fkn love it thanks

[@davidecolone1445]

John Genzale !!! his parents are from near ( Avellino) Italy!! I💔 Thunders !!

[@1967PONTIACGTO]

this might be the greatest live performance ever captured on video

[@MrBunghole666]

don't be pathetic

[@christopherXscum]

@@MrBunghole666 How is he being pathetic. That is his opinion, granted I don't necessarily agree, but opinions can't be wrong much less pathetic. Don't be an ass.

[@ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ec]

Mean

[@olivierelmon2614]

Simplement un mec défoncé qui imite Mick Jagger calme toi

[@Duff88]

If Mick is a king, Johnny is a god.​@@olivierelmon2614

[@carolinem8539]

Such a badass!!!!!

[@manickreations]

thanks for writing about Sid :)

[@jameshaine0274]

Can't say anything that hasn't been said about Johnny.The Ramones is what made me pick up a guitar, but Thunders is what made me want to learn to play it.1:42 cracks me up every time.

[@giulioluzzardi7632]

You hit the nail, he used to tell jokes and stories that made you piss yourself laughing. Rodney Dangerfield style.

[@jordanmcpartland897]

This is so cool Johnny thunders. Lou Reed and the rollin stones combo

[@leahflower9924]

Johnny thunders look like a pirate/revolutionary war soldier in this lol

[@vadim-volodiaanthian-girau1033]

Pilotage automatique ❤

[@jenimiranda9419]

I loved Sid Vicious so much!!!!! RIP

[@SantosSantos-bf5sz]

could not play bass

[@thequeenisalizard6976]

@@SantosSantos-bf5sz has nothing to do with the original comment but ok

[@Mr_SexyTime]

​@@SantosSantos-bf5szshut your mouth clown

[@iejcwejheiowcnlwekn]

He can’t help but be honest.

[@mookhaze]

Sad song... when I was born in 1982

[@DesManes77]

greatest video of johnny ever

[@stevemangino]

and the Heartbreakers

[@daz6704]

Gold!

[@hellybellybell]

I am sorry too.

[@rossjohnston4979]

Johhny fkin luv u guy thnks for writing this man rest in rip... knw u and sid r jammimin together w dee dee.

[@rocceymisiuk9310]

Ross Johnston thay r jammin with mr.Razzle Dingley as well... seems like heaven has gotta a beet more crazy when thay both got back there... Went there a way too soon - so sad... :( May Thay all rest in eternal peace...

[@innitmate2198]

Roccey Misiuk fuck ya good to see somebody mention razzle

[@vodkavolvo5529]

Roccey Misiuk I see you have a good fuckin taste

[@franchyarrechea]

to me if not the best, one of the top 3...

[@arliecornett796]

Love this.... RIP Sis and Johnny... Love Beth~

[@rosebudz8350]

🖤❤️🖤❤️

[@pauloroberto8429]

Married Me🤴👸

[@Bittersteamtrain]

They say Johnny would show up for the gig no matter what.

[@Ropeorsnake]

Always showed up at Max’s

[@oliverkalamata2753]

Same problem I have with my boot heels...

[@leahflower9924]

Thunders was Sid vicious' idol johnny probably knew that so wrote a song for him

[@stealthsadhu306]

Nobody ever remotely like him. Artist. And walking dead man. But that was one of the things that made him great.

[@fuoribinario6137]

Più cotto di sempre. Good old johnny😢

[@JCatJake]

go go Johnny T

[@ericotellez433]

Esta gente si era verdadera

[@maryfreebed9886]

I was told that he died a very long, slow and secretive death from cancer, and killing the pain of it was what all the drugs were for. He looks sickly even in comparison to his bandmates, who aren't exactly glowing with life either.

[@AlmostReady504]

Poor Johnny

[@jonyscrewzo]

💔💔💔💔

[@markmcavoy1368]

The ultimate R&R fuckup. Johnny rules

[@pauloroberto8429]

Jagger+Richards+Jones=Thunders. Fact.

[@josuegonzalez1913]

Come on !!!.....Are you serious ??...

[@vampiregirlgbg]

sad, sad and sad!

[@stewdoon3415]

johnny is on the verge of dying on stage

[@JCatJake]

Legend

[@richardkinsey1023]

Irving Plaza... I can't believe that, at present, shithole used to let a person like Johnny Thunders play there.

[@1313RickyBobby]

Who was the idiot that made the mistake of hitting the dislike button on this?

[@Takac1979]

From junkie to junkie ...

[@phyllismauro8481]

I'm sorry

[@innitmate2198]

Phyllis Mauro it’s alright phil

[@gasutrias9961]

😍

[@mlwsf]

First noticed he wasn't wearing his usual Blonde LPJ then I wondered how the fuck could this guy even function.

[@henriblasselle]

How could he play like this being so stone

[@fatovamingus]

Why do people watch these? Why are they watching Johnny thunders inching his way to death on drugs when there are so many videos before this? I don't understand.

[@giulioluzzardi7632]

This is an classical opera performance, he had Latin blood that would'nt let him be a plastic pop-star. As important to Music as Bethoven, Verdi and Mozart, they all used the same dramatic style. RIP compadre.

[@fernandogomezgonzalez3090]

Jjj fuckin crazy

[@ledrotten]

MY MAN JOHNNY REALLY KNEW HOW TA BELT ONE OUT , so sorry l, but ain't that the truth ....

[@madafaca5346]

heroin is no good

[@davespears2241]

It's like watching a train wreck.

[@dotrattray]

Crowd must have been effin’ asleep.

[@roddyflot]

what a mess!!

[@Paperbacknovel]

And best performance ever! Coked out; barely standing; imperfect vocals and understated guitar. But gripping and fantastic. Humming song in head all day. "I explain why good pop punk is hard to find: Vocals too clean, lyrics too serious, style too corporate, drummer too slow." -- Fat Jones on Twitter

[@mickobrien3156]

They say he was talented... You never know by this... Drugs just destroyed anything he had. And they didn't have to. You can use dope somewhat responsibly. Yes, it's possible. That's not an oxymoron. Many rockers were dope fiends and you'd never have known it. But he was a particularly sloppy addict. Going on stage immediately after shooting up... That's just so dumb. He couldn't even wait until AFTER. It's like he never developed a tolerance to dope, either. When I was using I could shoot 5 bags and still seem dead sober. It's weird because in every clip of this guy he's blasted like a new user. And every dope user knows very quickly in your tolerance skyrockets to an impossible level. You can no longer get high enough. That's why you go to the needle. It's your last chance to get high. But even that eventually stops working. Sure, you'll get all nodding out, but only for like an hour and only immediately after you shot up. So... Why couldn't he just wait... then go on stage... then shoot up again if he wanted to? It bothers me because he probably was way more talented than what we see in all his stage clips. Then again, he never had to deal with aging or getting sick. He just went out in a nod in New Orleans somewhere. It's not sad. What's sad is the people he left behind that cared about him. But for him... he went out painlessly. We all have to go. And he went out painlessly.

[@ChinkRoy]

Holy fucking shit. you are so right about everything. Thanks mick m8, im using this to write a song about addiction and death, hope you don't mind haha

[@anothergirlanotherplanet2826]

Please know that I say this with the utmost respect. We all love Johnny here, and I appreciated reading your insight on things... but Johnny didn't go out in a nod. He didn't have any heroin in his body when he died. In fact, it seems his death was anything but painless. I get your point, though. It was by some strange twist of fate that he didn't go out like that. Happy birthday to Johnny today, by the way... who oddly also died on a sad vacation, as you mentioned above.

[@tattootommy2034]

Johnny played up to his imagine and he was murdered in New Orleans.

[@mickobrien3156]

@@ChinkRoy I just saw this post after 2 years... Sorry I never saw when you wrote... Anyway... Sure, you can use whatever I said. I don't know how you would, but I certainly wouldn't mind.

[@mickobrien3156]

@@anothergirlanotherplanet2826 Nobody really knows anything about his death. And I hate people going toward a conspiracy theory with no evidence... esp when the likely and obvious scenario of a sloppy junkie overdosing is infinitely more likely than some pointless murder mystery. Even if he was murdered... it would've been while he was all sloppy and out of it. And I don't care how so many say, 'Johnny was cleaning his act up, and was on methadone, so he wasn't even using heroin when he was in New Orleans... That's just unprovable because the toxicology and autopsy info isn't public. And I know from personal experience... addicts on methadone also use dope. Because I did, for years. I was on methadone and I'd get frustrated and bored, and still slam up. The methadone made my tolerance that much more annoyingly high... but I'd be able to get off on top of the methadone. I only took methadone to tide myself over when I didn't have enough dope... but even together, many addicts use them both. Not just me, others I know did, too. As far as Johnny having some illness I've heard rumors about... there's also no concrete proof. Some say he had leukemia... others that knew him swear that's bs. Who knows. Lastly... One witness, Willy DeVille, stirred conspiracy theorists by saying... 'Johnny looked like a human pretzel when the coroners carried his body out of the hotel he died in...' However, Mr. DeVille doesn't understand death and rigor mortis. If you die while you're, say, in a chair... When you're found, depending on the time after death... your body can be almost frozen in place in the shape you were in before death and before your muscles tightened up... because of death, etc. So... the contortion of a corpse... it doesn't necessarily speak to the way a person died. Not at all. Anyway... the most likely theory is the one I'm going with. Johnny was a lifelong junkie. He overdosed. There's just not enough evidence to suggest some murder mystery. ....And that's the end of the Johnny Thunders story.

[@mitchgawlik1175]

Dig the song but the performance has to grow on me. I'd love to hear this as a straight up blues.

[@deadballpitherschannel8702]

rock killed him but he was happy

[@leahflower9924]

Green day stole Walters look he has pink socks converse tie suit eyeliner etc lol

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

@@leahflower9924 Copycats lol nobody needs em cheers for telling may he Rest in Powder RnR

[@filipematias5127]

Johnny is too high on heroin! lol 😁

[@marisolex119]

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[@bennyblanco8750]

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