SEX PISTOLS Paul Cook 1979 Interview

[@andyhedges5705]

Good interview. Cook always comes across as a nice lad.

[@pk6810]

He's my favourite pistol.

[@kennybegeske8824]

Happy Birthday Paul

[@prohibenada]

Thank you so much for including a slideshow, it's so awesome to be able to listen to this interview and be able to look at classic Sex Pistols photos at the same time.

[@betaville72]

Thankyou

[@StephenMerchant-up8sg]

Solid man solid drummer. Ringo, Charlie Watts and Cookie. The right men in the right bands

[@TimBucknall]

this is a fascinating piece of lost Sex Pistols history from a very murky and confusing period. Thank you so much for uploading. Seems like Steve & Paul still held out hopes of keeping the pistols name. 123 & Just Another Dream and the stuff with Andy Allen on bass would have been great Pistols singles just like silly thing was.

[@caseyjones0113]

I really enjoyed that interview. Thank you for uploading it 👍

[@baabaabaa2293]

Never heard this interview.. thanks for putting it up mate. Most ( interviewers) were antagonistic & knew fukall about the band, at least this bloke let Cooky talk.

[@VintageBoxingtm]

Thanks for uploading! Never heard this one before. Had so much excitement and hope for Steve and Paul around this time, as they were now what essentially transitioned into The Professionals.

[@hugohugo2832]

Good interview. Sympathetic questioning opened him much more than usual.

[@ianwhitehead691]

Great interview cookie, keep rocking & Banging them drums son. 🧷🧷🧷

[@antstead2329]

Met Paul a good few times at his and other gigs over the years, he's a nice fella.

[@antstead2329]

And I would add to that, Paul is right , drugs killed Sid. The rest ia bollocks, always was. If most folk inly knew what drugs do..

[@rossturrell1219]

Paul cook is a top man and a top drummer and musician and a straight up man in my opinion

[@erichvrundstedt]

Thanks for sharing. ! Really cool video.

[@fraserdymond]

You know how important a band are when there is as much interest in what the drummer has to say .

[@scottcrosby-art5490]

Paul always seemed like he was the stable one, apart from the occasional theft with Steve Jones of course lol.

[@grahamblack1961]

He was definitely the most level headed Pistol.

[@koont666]

Good old Hammersmith boy And I must agree ANARCHY is one of the finest records ever released 🍀🇬🇧👍🏼

[@StephenDBurge-in5qi]

I wud go back in time in a 💓 74-77 best of times 🏴‍☠️

[@newcybrown6352]

Never heard this before .Cheers .

[@sojnab1]

I would love to see his radio show guests,great guy

[@gcroller93]

He should be the co host of Steve on jonesys jukebox that would be great imo

[@sojnab1]

@@gcroller93 jonesy is a let to down in my opinion.As Robert E. Lee said"dont keep no cats that dont catch no mice".

[@sfundawge]

I really love paul

[@betaville72]

My favourite of the Pistols

[@markgreet3543]

Good interview I've got this I'm a big sex pistol fan 250 items bootlegs interviews box se dvd videos teeshirts cds 7 inch 12 inch studio recordings demos seen them six times on reunion tours this is a rare interview met john and glen matlock in my home city leic uk east midlands

[@markgreet3543]

Box sets as well

[@markgreet3543]

They were amazing sid was ok as well it was pure crap people said they could not play

[@markgreet3543]

Good musicians well okay sid was basic but had potential

[@merlin5476]

Some cool photos too, some of the McLaren ones look like Ginger Baker though..

[@johnnyoranges]

Even today, their records rarely get played on radio, or at least what I hear of radio. Not even the supposedly least objectionable stuff like 'Pretty Vacant'. Then again, Pink Floyd and Led Zep hardly ever released singles in their heyday, and subsequently they rarely got played on radio aside from a very few numbers. As with the Pistols, that just meant, if you wanted their music, you had to fork out and buy it, which for a working class kid in the 70s wasn't cheap.

[@LuisRomero-uq1zw]

Paul Cook 🥁🥁🎼👏

[@sarahatherton9766]

I've watched a lot of interviews with Paul cook I really like them he doesn't loose it and walk off unlike Johnny. Johnny always looses it he wants the limlite and wants to be centre of attention he always buts in when the interviewer tries to talk to anybody else . Keep it up pakul

[@kaptinshazbat7535]

Ones a drummer and the other is the lead singer, artistic centre point and leader of the band ! Errrr?

[@emmahunter1875]

Agree with Sarah. Paul is polite and courteous.

[@johnnyoranges]

@@emmahunter1875 'Polite and courteous' ? Yes, fairy nuff, but how far do you think the Pistols would've got if they'd been polite and courteous back in the day ? Would we have had... Never Mind the Rudeness, featuring such tracks as : 'Courteousness in the UK' 'Pretty Polite' ? Hmmm... 😉

[@johnnyoranges]

@@kaptinshazbat7535 Yes. If Paul had been the frontman, they'd have gone nowhere. Early on, Steve actually gave up singing lead, and stuck to guitar, so that the Rotten persona could be that focal point and basically the 'punk' image.

[@bhamacuk]

Some good questions here, very relevant for the time and no one better to answer them than Paul. With Lydon he's always trying to prove a point and you don't always get the plain truth.

[@johnnyoranges]

As Johnny's gotten older, but still hung onto that 'Rotten' image, he has looked sillier and sillier. However, as a young guy, he was the one putting his balls on the line and taking the heat for it. Take my word. No Johnny, no Pistols. Unless you believe 'TGR'nRS' is the equal of 'NMTB', which it clearly isn't.

[@msbee-xj8ni]

He was so handsome.

[@andywells397]

Good old paul, he aint changed a bit in all this time.

[@johnnyoranges]

Paul is being ultra diplomatic here, a very un-Pistols like attitude, as the others were far more inclined to slag off at others. I wonder if he'd be so kind to Malcolm today. Still, the interesting part for me were the pics, some of which I'd never seen before.

[@betaville72]

I tried my best with what i had

[@johnnyoranges]

@@betaville72 You did a great job with those pics, especially the Hendrix and Beatles' album covers featuring the Spiky Tops instead.

[@markgreet3543]

I've got both copys they show german version is very rare and french version is to

[@fasthracing]

God save the Sex Pistols

[@josephyates7761]

Very good int.

[@lacuaimabritanica]

nice guy.

[@markgreet3543]

Anarchy german and french both shown here are very rare

[@markgreet3543]

Public image and religion were written at the end of the pistols they played religion in a sound check usa Dallas

[@mjh5437]

Is the soundcheck on here?

[@markgreet3543]

@@mjh5437 no sadly not, maybe one day you never know.

[@markgreet3543]

No one is innocent was banned 1978

[@honestcommenterseany441]

Steve allways felt uncomfortable around John. “His own words “. And you can see why sometimes. Allways the center of attraction. They just have to sit and listen and can’t get a word in edge wards.

[@mjh5437]

He wouldn`t have been Johnny Rotten otherwise,you can`t have it both ways,durrrrr

[@honestcommenterseany441]

@@mjh5437 hey I really like Johnny. Just quoting what Steve said in a interview one time. He’s very clever and has a heart of gold. Was around when punk kicked off in 70s. Still have a Anarchy in UK Long sleeve cheese cloth shirt Original.

[@contentstarved991]

“People complaining but not doing anything about it.” Sounds like people today. We gotta stop with the “will somebody who isn’t me please make good music!”

[@markgreet3543]

How tall is paul ??

[@matthewjdouglas6471]

5'8

[@markgreet3543]

@@matthewjdouglas6471 was malcolm small?

[@matthewjdouglas6471]

@@markgreet3543 I never met him. I wouldn't know. I have met Paul though. And he seems taller than he looksvon tv 📺 or photographs 📸

[@markgreet3543]

I'm a big pistol collector fan I would say malcolm was average height 5.8 or 5.9 sid called him a little git once ha ha bless them

[@markgreet3543]

@@matthewjdouglas6471 I mean some one once said steve was small he was the tallest then sid then john then glen and paul but when I meet glen he said sid was only 5 11

[@Aurora2097]

I think Paul is a good guy.As much as i respect lydon for his Lyrics and a lot of clever rants and critique... i'd also have a hard time being around with guys like him or jones, whom i also still like... in a way,

[@johnnyoranges]

And that's why quiet Paul was the drummer and loud Johnny the frontman. Ditto Charlie Watts to Mick Jagger, or Ringo Starr to John Lennon. Ideally, each is suited to their role in the overall thing.

[@stevenknight8280]

Plus free alchol

[@zladatv]

*👍класс и привет от тренера по футболу3*

[@peterbream868]

who's the interviewer?

[@spiritualparadise4887]

Stuart Grundy (BBC)

[@VincentRE79]

@@spiritualparadise4887 Is he still around?

[@spiritualparadise4887]

@@VincentRE79 You may find this interesting: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGWcfpyBfJhjp9k

[@VincentRE79]

@@spiritualparadise4887 Yes thanks for that. He did a pretty good interview with Paul Cook here would you agree?

[@spiritualparadise4887]

@@VincentRE79 Yes ... Paul is probably the most courteous member of the band. He's given many very interesting interviews over the years.

[@damonjones9606]

I like him but calling Americans stupid is dumb

[@betaville72]

The interviews with various audiences on that tour shows they were pretty stupid. Antagonlzing Sid, while he's standing above you on stage with a bass in his hand was not exactly bright, for example.

[@kikovazquez7277]

I think he said Americans who came to the shows were stupid. I can well imagine that most in the audience were coming out to catch a freak show and watch trouble unfold. The biggest punk show I was at was around the same time as the Pistol's tour - a horribly dilapidated ancient vacant and rotting theater in NYC which I think was being used by CBGB to promote concert type exposure for punk outside of the club environment. That place was not fit for anything but demolition. A cold night, no heating, holes in the building, the crowd held out on the sidewalk to freeze for maybe more than an hour after the show was supposed to start. Then 3 name bands - I remember The Dictators and The Dead Boys but not the 3rd. The audience was moronic for sure, but maybe you couldn't blame them all things considered, but they were there more for chaos than music. Constant conflict between bands and audience with The Dead Boys finally ending the fiasco by smashing instruments on the stage and storming off. This may have been the one and only show that got off the ground in this subway toilet of a venue.

[@stephenspark9358]

well booking at a kicker bar by Malcom Kickers are not very bright he knew there would be trouble

[@mjh5437]

@@stephenspark9358What us a “”Kicker”? A redneck?

[@mjh5437]

@@stephenspark9358 What is a Kicker?