Public Image Limited - Seattle (Tallinn Rock Summer Festival 1988)

Tallinn Rock Summer Festival, Estonia August 26th 1988

[@beaware6487]

The studio version of Seattle is one of the greatest guitar intros ever!

[@briankaplan3588]

The guitar...the bass...I’m not sure which one is making me more aroused. My goodness, what a live performance. Thank you so much for uploading.

[@DarrenBonJovi]

John McGeoch's guitar playing... ace. Interesting to see how the Soviets were starting to ease cultural restrictions at this stage.

[@marguskiis7711]

Things were evolving really fast those days. 1987 such a concert was impossible. 1988 -- a new normality. Actually this festival was organized by some Finnish guys and fest included numerous Finnish bands.

[@deletebilderberg]

@@marguskiis7711 35 years later the whole planet is entering a digital MAOIST gulag to ‘save the planet’

[@niktusacid]

Man, this is pure gold, thank you for this upload!!!

[@lovedicedtomatoes9653]

This was awesome.

[@marguskiis7711]

I didn't know PIL was so good live band

[@thequeenisalizard6976]

The bass sounds so good

[@TheNegro39]

In the 80's Music live or studio Was Supreme

[@glennhalila8279]

I've seen many bands live. Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, The Police these are Big names Prince, Woodstock 94, Genesis, Rush Rainbow, CSN. Greatfull Dead I rank these Guys up with them because of their Command Performance Thanksgiving Night 1987 @ Bogarts in Cincinnati Ohio. By far the best Light Show maybe the Best of All Concerts that I went to! The Music, Sound, Feel, I literally NEVER FELT MUSIC LIKE THAT CONCERT EVER! I

[@ar3766]

Can you name the drug you were on that night?

[@AEMachinas]

Absolutely DIVINE!🙏God bless Johnny Rotten Lyndon

[@cfcreative1]

How tight is this!

[@patricktimothy8354]

Very. And in spite of them having equipment problems and logistical concerns playing behind the Iron Curtain. I have a bootleg cd of this I bought in the UK in the 90s.

[@KralArtus]

@@patricktimothy8354 This concert in UdSSR was possible only thanks "perestroika" by Gorbi... :-)

[@moongloomable]

Fantastic video. Made my night, thank you!

[@SeahorsesJay]

I remember seeing this footage for the first time and being blown away as the 87-88 era always interested me a lot because of the scarcity of live material. I'd of course owned the FM broadcast for years before I finally saw this footage though, and it has to be said the mix on that audio is superior to what it is here - perhaps somebody could sync it up?

[@michaelhalbert3843]

This was a pop album, but I loved it. As it turns out they only made one decent album after this. I saw them live a couple of years ago. I was a little late (john had glasses and a lectern), but still a great show.

[@colewhite4184]

more and more shows I've been to have had the singer using a lectern, why? I'm not sure, perhaps after 40 years of playing music the lyrics can all become one song and it can be confusing

[@osheal]

love this song

[@sarahandjoe2011]

I would love to see this version tabbed out for Guitar

[@hunterthompson4588]

This footage looks like it was shot in 2005.

[@thequeenisalizard6976]

It really does the quality is good for 1988

[@marguskiis7711]

Its Estonian TV 1988

[@_BirdOfGoodOmen]

Probably straight from the original cameras recording it. You'd be amazed how great old footage looks when it isn't copied/broadcast/recopied/put on a different format/copied again/uploaded online/copied *again*/and so on.

[@thequeenisalizard6976]

@@_BirdOfGoodOmen thats true also

[@te9591]

Ikr

[@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!

[@markgreet3543]

Ordinary will ignore whatever they cannot explain ad nothing ever happens and everything remains the same

[@NeglectedField]

3:31 fucking love it when drummer starts hitting an anvil or whatever that is. Just emphasises the sexy swing of it all

[@mayhem492]

It’s a great song from a much overlooked album.

[@VanquishAirsoft]

Nice to see him change the lyrics at the start to "what went up, must come down" presumably references the Berlin Wall.

[@MrRaiden69]

Great live for great music.

[@fredericbaran3011]

what to say.?. about. one of the biggest group punk ever.

[@cordless5398]

William, could you please upload "angry" from this PIL concert. ? Thank you !!!

[@william1492]

I just uploaded it today

[@donnablackman3954]

Johnny looks great 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💋💋💋💋♥️

[@hotlegshoolihan1779]

The lyrics are more meaningful that initially meets the ear. ....... Fuck....... Johnny in his rasta days. ...... God I wish I'd seen em back then.

[@DitchBarfelo]

Saw PIL live at Jones Beach in NY...fuckin' great.

[@markgreet3543]

Avid sex pistols fan love pil seen them live many times john is a amazing guy meet him once I was speechless 🙊

[@dreadynside132]

Where can i have this shirt 😳 I love this shirt since 2001 😂

[@katoness]

Hahaha, Lydon in his pyjamas, ready for bed.

[@Blank_Frank]

I think the whole band is dressed in their pyjamas, I guess it was the whole thing with PiL during the later 80's years... lol Peter Hook (from New Order) used to complain he was deceived by the band outfits during their "Monsters Of Alternative Rock Tour" during the summer of '89...

[@auburn7697]

Un magico Arlecchino

[@xochitl9161]

HMM..... I wonder if Cobain and Vedder were influenced by PiL

[@zibro6379]

Flowers of Romance is noted as one of Kurt Cobain's top 50 albums in his journals

[@martinwolf3060]

Obviously

[@brad5983]

No way 😂 u dumb

[@marguskiis7711]

U2 a lot

[@bizyizziaz4831]

@@zibro6379 omg what is this fucking anime shit

[@chipchipchop123]

Whaaaaat in the world! X

[@eddiegeorge6114]

I say,damn good show what what what!!

[@Konketsuthelonewolf]

Fantastic live set.....but just out of curiosity were these guys wearing their pajamas?

[@carljones1369]

Snot rocket @ 2:05

[@hamupinhere]

What's up with 1:29?

[@edwardlazell3157]

John McGeoch better at guitar than backing vocals, I guess.

[@timforster94]

@@edwardlazell3157 probably distracted at the other guitarist who doesn’t how to tune his instrument and keep it there.

[@tonymaner5510]

Play back?

[@aabove]

Mick Hucknall playing the fuck out of that guitar

[@prakt7173]

This was one year before I was born. I wonder if this was the first time he came to the soviet union.

[@patricktimothy8354]

it was. he was supposedly banned in the Soviet Union. And they were pretending to be the opening act for Big Country,but they were the actual headlining foriegn act.

[@marguskiis7711]

@@patricktimothy8354 PIL performed first day, Big C last day. And PIL performed mid day, not in the evening.

[@robkeaton6143]

And the walls came down

[@tommeadows-ie2xb]

Love the writing on Happy, 9 and others but hate McGeough's guitar. That flanger sound was already outdated by 1978. Lydon could have done a lot better. Really glad to see Seattle performed tho.

[@craigbroussard1010]

tom snyder intro

[@nellytorossian4301]

WOW

[@WvhKerkhof]

Boy John,

[@dustingoins3428]

Name of the first song?

[@foxriverpwc4723]

Seattle

[@gonzinigonz]

Somebody needs to tune that fucking guitar.

[@nagatom]

is that a kahler?

[@NeglectedField]

Yes

[@markgreet3543]

Sorry meant and oh dear

[@addisonjojo2990]

What is that shit he's wearing on his head

[@whatsitwhosit]

Sounds like McGeoch is out of tune... still, a favorite bass line & track!

[@dalethedippa5822]

He's not, Lu Edmonds is

[@NeglectedField]

One of them is, but when I hear that in 80s footage, I just think it sounds very post-punk, heh

[@fredflintstone3757]

I never could get into PIL , punk, to new wave or whatever, that wasn't punk I know that

[@lukethedrifter100]

Just think, in 3 years after this Nirvana released Nevermind, and liberated us for this sort of pretentious shite.

[@Paulie80]

Then the fun 80's were replaced by the woeful 90's

[@raspberryjamOZ]

This song is better than Nirvana's whole discography 👍😂

[@marguskiis7711]

Nirvana recorded Bleach same time.

[@TheVintagesteal]

Satire or Irony ? Nirvana were just another well placed product. Right place at the right time.

[@bizyizziaz4831]

both are the same demography as far as i´m concerned