PIL - Rise - Glasnost Rock - Rock Summer 1988

[@joydivisionboy1]

I'll never get sick of the sound of John McGeoch's guitar, no matter which band he was in, the guitarist of our generation, R.I.P.

[@zombywoof1015]

I never heard of him and don't know who he is. I assume he's in pil but there's two guitars so I don't know which he is. LOL

[@joydivisionboy1]

@@zombywoof1015 he's the one in the tartan, listen to Magazine's first 3 albums and Siouxsie and the Banshees Kaleidoscope and Juju (to a lesser extent a kiss in the dreamhouse), he also played on Visage's first album and another band called The Armoury Show, and then a couple of PIL albums before he died in the early 2000s.

[@jefft1161]

@@zombywoof1015 If you truly gave a shit it would take you less than 5 minutes to google him and learn about him. About the same amount of time it took you to ask the question.

[@lindso6105]

yeah what a tune ❤

[@chadromanowski2408]

Guitarist of our generation? Lay off the fake weed man.

[@СергейСальченко]

Прочел в книжке Троицкого,что PIl,выступали в Эстонии,в 1988.Тогда,20 лет назад,и не поверил)Теперь,поверил))

[@charlie.something]

I loved the summer of 88. What a great time. I love John Lydon. Hope you're well, brother.

[@Tdawgmcginty]

One of the most beautiful songs ever written. I love everyone who is here listening!

[@oiiikk7554]

Vc usa figura de linguagem

[@debbiewhitehead9890]

I will NEVER get tired of this song! The guitar players on this stage are magical.

[@PeteNThat]

That's very, very simple guitar.

[@xwhite2020]

I did drag on a bit.

[@theculturedthug6609]

Pretty basic playing.

[@MattFoleysGhost]

@@PeteNThat Bless your heart. You’ve got a lot to learn about the difference between “moving” and “dazzling”. There’s a reason shredders don’t have female fans. Think about it.

[@xwhite2020]

@@theculturedthug6609 Go watch Joe Satriani if fancy smansy stuff is your thing.

[@jonhaigh9530]

Some serious talent on that stage

[@petek6428]

John Lydon was always way ahead of the times .. It all makes sense 2022!!

[@moonwork4378]

Love the drummer and bass too. Awesome band.

[@DrumsTheWord]

Really good!

[@michaelhalbert3843]

I wore the t shirt for this tour during my graduation ceremony. I've been a PIL fan for...oh gosh,.....ummmmm 25 years. Wow.

[@MH-vb1hj]

Damn. Whoever was responsible for sound mix engineering at this festival deserves an all-time award.

[@buddhafx5973]

sounds balanced like listening to studio production. 🎉🎉🎉

[@redguitar6062]

Anger is an energy. Wise words for today's times.

[@BillLarkinmusic]

I always thought john said " Anger raise that energy" until i read the lyrics

[@yardbirds8414]

No Internet - No Cell Phones - Just Humanity.......Imagine that............

[@YO_NEEN]

Shhhhh 🎉

[@JasonCoker-k4o]

❤

[@AvailableHandle]

How can those people enjoy this without watching it through their phones?

[@davidricardoblaslactayo8130]

what personality to go on stage like that!! PIL 4 ever

[@takecareofyourshoess]

He looks like a CLOWN...mostly because he IS a clown.

[@davidhuffman4327]

What? We were Vivid as f!!! Hhhhhmmmm it's not letting me post a picture of me 1986 Washington DC. Punks didn't just wear black. Artists (especially) wore very loud in your face colors:)

[@nevillecharles69Ncharles]

Anger is an energy.

[@alexdesouza7138]

Johnny Rotten is incredible ! This is beautiful im my saturday morning ! Health , Peace & Love for all ! Greetings from Brazil !

[@ernestoribeiro2226]

...e John Lydon no PIOR visual da vida dele. nada pode ser pior que isso. caprichou na podreira. dá vontade de vomitar.

[@axlnixon8955]

Instablaster

[@kungkanta]

He is a fucking hypicrit....

[@thisisAndreMattos]

@@ernestoribeiro2226 Parece a porra do Patati Patatá, só faltou um pouco mais de barriga, nos dias de hoje daria certinho. Mas espero assistir o PIL algum dia aqui no Brasil, eu nem era nascido da outra vez.

[@BazookaToe]

@Henric Bohm verɪfɪed, I bet he can spell it.

[@billyshane3804]

John McGeoch - Innovator Champion & Legend RIP

[@AHMEDAficionadoROCKERO]

AAHH!! en verdad me gustó esta canción! MUCHO! y los musico en escena se ven geniales, se mueven padrísimo! muy buen video. increíble que me tardara 36 años en conocer esta canción... mas vale tarde que nunca. gracias por subir este video! saludooooooos!

[@darinaadland5226]

That's a fantastic lineup!

[@DrumsTheWord]

The drummer is excellent!

[@marguskiis7711]

Its a sole pro shoot of PIL from late 80s. Estonian TV was great and mighty those days.

[@jeromemilne561]

Alan Dias on bass is awesome

[@blackskunk54]

XLNT. Just reading John's Autobiography 'Anger Is An Energy'. Love this song and the sentiment.

[@peterpandemonium3032]

Johny McG was not only one of the most unique and innovative guitar players of all time, he also bears a remarkable resemblance to Beeker from the muppet show. I have long maintained that most all great bands would fit right in on Sesame street or the muppet show. This video strongly confirms that theory

[@davidhuffman4327]

Ooooohh sh!t, he DOES look like BEEKER! I went to th School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati Ohio, U.S.A., and have a friend who worked on The Muppets for years. He said he got a kick when musicians got nervous when filming on the show. He asked a guy why once and he said, " Are you kidding man? This is the Muppets. This is serious!" I love that:)!!!

[@jtee788]

I like how in a song he wrote, he still shakes his head at the idea he could be wrong. But that’s Johnny

[@LSPalm]

If Johnny was younger. He'd been cast as one of the versions of the Joker that we have in recent times

[@loudannymalacts5095]

John McGeoch- Champion and Legend RIP

[@mikefellows3901]

This is live music at its best !!! Superb !!!

[@TraumUTube]

I love PIL.

[@intertubicular]

That was pretty kick ass. I enjoyed that. What a strange bunch of fellows, these members of PIL!

[@tone3817]

May the road rise with you... 🍀

[@kylerowe666]

Anger is an energy... fucking amazing lyric

[@turblijura]

There is no point to be afraid. Better get angry. - golden words from Little My - Tove Jannson - Moomin

[@jaywalker3087]

Yeah, got a VIP ticket for John's tour Nov 2025.. Mt second time chatting with one of the most intelligent men I've ever heard... 65 and lovin it 😎

[@nickturnbull4105]

This is fucking amazing , love it all so much,never heard of this drummer before , fantasti musicality 😂

[@fredsavage4925]

Never thought this could be pulled off live. I could be wrong.... and i was

[@zombywoof1015]

I really don't know why you'd say that. You should check out Rush, ELP and Yes. They all had music far more complex than this that they performed live for decades.

[@batphink2655]

@@zombywoof1015 Listen dickhead I'm also a Classic Rock/Prog rock fan BUT a good song is a good song, and you my friend NEED to learn the difference between technical brilliance and great songwriting! I can tell a great musician a mile away and these guys are very good players!

[@Ukraineaissance2014]

I thought the same, never bothered looking for it live because it sort of sounds like one of those songs made brilliant by playing with the studio (basically think new orders whole back catalogue) but they pull it off.

[@brianhanssens7996]

​@@zombywoof1015any other bad takes you would like to share?

[@rydalman21]

Bless the bemused crowd, turning up to see The Sex Pistols Mark 2 - what a shock! But that's Lydon all over, PIL, what a great band, what a great performance, dreadlocks n all, you've gotta love Jonnie, pretty damn epic!

[@szarzyniecszczurzynski1902]

Well, Tallinn, 1988? What a surprise, I would never think that PIL played a gig in Soviet Union at that time! Excellent show anyway!

[@lordsaviour450]

To the OP: With a name like that, you must be Ukrainian.

[@travesurasdelraton4480]

Esta musica es pura energia en su mas altisimo nivel. Cuando nacio John Lydon se rompio el molde, es unico e inigualable. Larga vida a PIL.

[@radivojvojvodic608]

This is fantastic

[@zzzzzz5353]

Love this song 2021 listing to right on my day off blessings to everyone john is great

[@JohnDoe-yr4wc]

That guitar tone is fkn spot on

[@robyale]

It sounds good here but actually quite different than the recording, which is a 12 string guitar.

[@JohnDoe-yr4wc]

I mean fark, it sounds soooo good!

[@ladypodtron]

I’d say you were right JL, but as you know, hindsight is 20/20. Cheers to those who were around when this was a new one, and those who weren’t! You are in the right place right now.

[@tiitkoolmann5179]

I remember this Rock Summer.

[@geographyinaction7814]

'album', 'compact disc', 'cassette, or 'record' was fantastic. The generic sleeve did not hint at all to the personnel that played on it. Steve Vai, Ginger Baker, Tony Williams and others.

[@soulbrother5435]

yeah, on Album John Lydon collected one of the best session line up in history of music

[@juanmanuelpais4529]

Ryuichi Sakamoto también, un gran disco , álbum, cassette , compac

[@robyale]

Don’t forget Bill Laswell.

[@RichPurps]

On the single I bought at release it did indeed mention Ginger Baker on drums. But not Steve Vai etc!! wow

[@batphink2655]

Excellent performance just bang on!

[@walterpoluzzi9846]

Johnny, you did a great job !!

[@markmcarthy596]

Saw PIL @ Mississippi Nights in St Louis back then-intimate venue with speakers on My shoulder and the band at My feet. One of the best ever

[@chrissimons9733]

A lot of people say this guy omg etc. Seriously he is a legend what a life and what wonderful songs.......Anger is an Energy and for once I would love to be pretty vacant .....and not care

[@YOURETOOANGRY]

Frickin genius 🙌🏻🙌🏻🖤

[@sarahjaneclarke6614]

Johnny lydon has great energy

[@coolthinghs]

Abbiamo vissuto anni fantastici (anni 80) e non lo sapevamo

[@velikotilainen3472]

Whatta song band is enjoying playing this - insanely goose bumps one of the best songs ever

[@eggman1978]

The crowd say it all. Great song

[@christopherwells5945]

Cheak out jonny ,always in my mind such an important song in the day,yeh i was a punk rocker ,rebele always

[@cestusfr]

Man i love that song!

[@Bosspigeon230]

Bands like PIL in that part of the World meant alot at that time for kids like British Football. Far more than Springsteen et al....

[@PunkJazz22]

3:22 McGeoch throws in a quick Led Zeppelin lick!

[@derekmiller8093]

The Jester and the crowd are going mad. What a showman.

[@LizzyDripping]

He reminds me of someone ❤️‍🔥

[@stevedanko2422]

you always were right. still is

[@tarsiseascriaturas6779]

Vi o show em São Paulo em 1996...Close Up Planet Festival no Ibirapuera... Mannn foi o ápice da minha vida... Matllock no baixo e a formação clássica... Ouvi Rise com 14anos de vida e com 22 vi a Great Rock in Roll Swinddle ao vivo...

[@contausonetflixnetflix]

faz tempo

[@marcelbreda56]

this is awsome

[@dansmith8493]

This is really great

[@sejamstihm]

Very good Johnny, as always.

[@TheDobleQ]

Fun fact, Malcolm McLaren, Sex Pistols marketing mastermind, actually tried to register "Johnny Rotten" as his commercial property after John Lydon ditched the character in the rise of Public Image and btw, Lydon doesn't like the Rotten persona by any means, he actually made Public Image as a form of liberation from his Pistols days. While Lydon is the musical genius, Rotten is the character, the "Public Image".

[@guitarzan2626]

more fun facts, lydon is a huge trumpie.😢

[@waynesteffen3262]

@@guitarzan2626 One performer recognizing another. Difference is one is sincere. Which? Hmmm. 🤔

[@lordsaviour450]

Interesting responses.

[@user-jc5lf6sf7g]

this is actually amazing across the board

[@aJones-hv5ny]

Lydon cuts his OWN hair. In the DARK. With a BLINDFOLD on.

[@sofim2583]

Une énergie !

[@galileoshift8330]

brilliant across multiple generations johnny rotten ripened the world & music

[@madlight13]

It saddens me to watch my own history, while I’m still alive, get muted and distilled and just Changed At the time I probably didn’t think PIL was punk rock enough yet I just kinda loved them. Don’t let history diminish the importance and huge effect that The Sex Pistols AND Johnny Rotten AND Johnny LYDON, had on the world musically

[@jonathanbennetts2632]

watch time team. then think about the bones they dig up now as if your one of them. and they will never know u watched fantastic music,. lions eating gladiators and poetry in one afternoon. It kind of makes you feel better.

[@LaughingStock_]

This isn't "Punk". This is music for adults.

[@madlight13]

@@LaughingStock_ no it’s the farthest thing you would expect of Johnny Lydon having been in one of the first punk bands! But he has my total respect! Even more so because music should evolve, and usually only does when an artist is creating it!

[@paulwalsh2344]

@ Mimi Mathieson Couldn't agree more with everything you said... I wasn't really Punk at the time... to timid and snivelling... I own that. But now... I salute you FUCKING PUNKS ! Nobody is gonna change anything for the better by being nice ! Power NEVER concedes without a demand.

[@lordsaviour450]

Your comment was from 2 years. No one can or will diminish what the Sex Pistols, the other bands that came out of nowhere (DIY), and the fans accomplished. It was serendipity. The right time, right place. In the UK, in the USA, it was a big enema to the music industry. It helped kill bands like Emerson Lake & Palmer, Yes (until they reconstituted in the late '80's), Triumph, Eagles, Jackson Browne, all the California granola groups. It was wonderful. We went from 12 minute opuses to 3 minute hard and fast. To the individual who said PiL/Rise isn't punk ... no, it's punk grown up. It's still subversive. Listen to the lyrics. Anger is an energy. Burn your city to the ground. The price of Hulu (US) Disney+ (UK) is well worth the price for the Sex Pistols docu-drama "Pistol". All you young-ins can find out what really happened 45 some odd years ago. I really came here to rag on Johnny Rotten Lyndon in this PiL video from 1988. What would have made Johnny about 28-30 yrs old dress like this? Dude, what's up with the pseudo Jamaican hair style. I guess Johnny mon need he dreads wrapped. I know it was '88 and it travels well, but the shorts clown outfit has got to be written off to youth and the year. That would be the story I would stick with. Love you John. We got old and fat together. But, we had a hell of a youth. You're a damn good writer!

[@pseudobeast4653]

John in his Boy George phase.

[@c.alejo8846]

this is brilliant

[@deathbysnusnu515]

That is a look, John.

[@marguskiis7711]

Estonia 1988, still in Soviet Union. But great things started there same year. Estonians changed the whole world those days.

[@slappy200]

What a great lineup

[@martincooke3934]

Magnificent

[@VictoriaGeorge-kn6gq]

This is great footage of the Rock Summer Festival in Tallinn back in 1988, featuring some truly incredible artist - like PIL. Great to see John mcGeoch on stage. One of the most talented Scottish guitarists ever. I have been looking for footage of the full rock festival, with the performance of Big Country. Any chance you know where it is or even maybe have it?

[@markrosenquist8259]

Great song!

[@Rep115-o9o]

Almost boy George esqu but I still love him he did it to stir ppl up and get these reactions Jonny Pink rock's !

[@chickenminute8195]

that was awesome.

[@pietjepuk9575]

I need that outfit from Rotten so i could wear it on the sunday to go to church ( never been there,so it would be a first time thing) 😜😜👍👍

[@MrCraigmelia]

Should have performed this at Live Aid

[@katoness]

Haha, Lydon saw through that scam!!

[@ronbo11]

Two issues: PiL weren't invited to the concert. Live Aid was on 1985-07-13. PiL released "Album" (with "Rise" on it) on 1986-01-27. I'm not sure they had this song written in time to even be played there, had they been invited.

[@duraosunda]

Should have pooed at Live Aid

[@MiguelAngelSamui]

I 'd waste all my money for watch in live to Geldof dealing with Lydon. lol

[@jonesfamily4326]

@@katoness yeah what a scam. raising over 125 million for aid in africa!!!!

[@patthewoodboy]

John is a gem :-)

[@tonyrobles2696]

Love allways these Super Culture Band

[@daveanthony2959]

Hell yea.

[@drdelewded]

I saw Iggy Pop play this festival in 94.. Good times

[@drdelewded]

I also performed in a folk dance routine at the Estonian Dance Festival the same year at the same music grounds.

[@raypestrapur2897]

John McGeoch - Legend and Champion.

[@isshinryu11]

A legend

[@mrbosh0115]

How frigging cool is this.

[@garthkolbeck8674]

John's tribute to Ari from The Slits?

[@snakepit101]

so damn good!

[@avenueb]

johnny: top of his game. Top of anyone's game

[@ELECTRICEYEMEDIA]

It still fascinates me that Steve Vai and Ginger Baker recorded the guitars and drums for this album. Anyone know of any footage with either performing with PIL?

[@dionisio7719]

Great ...

[@alexandrov.1981]

Soundtrack from"Body brockers" 2020

[@billyvalentine4365]

You'll dance to anything...

[@michelecamelia6909]

Sempre Jonny sempre Rotten forever 👍

[@highjinxwillie62]

Only JR can look cool in a outfit like that

[@lordsaviour450]

Cool like a fool. He was working the circus too.

[@paulchisholm3305]

Such a great tune 😂

[@eamonnquigley2125]

may the road rise with you a old irish saying ....................johnny parents came from ireland one off them at least..

[@darrenryan1161]

Do you research and you will find who really was from Eire

[@glennoc8585]

Yeah he mentioned he wanted an but of Irish flavour in his music and grew up listening to traditional Irish music and prose.

[@darrenryan1161]

@@glennoc8585 u can't be reply to anything I've said, just ur own take on lydon music I'm guessing

[@TheVideoLounge]

Superb performance, not so sure about John channeling The Slits there, but still...