After releasing one album and touring as a band for only two and a half years (minus the lengthy list of cancelled shows), the Sex Pistols capped off their seven date US tour and career at the Winterland Ballroom in San Fransisco, CA on January 14, 1978.
After playing their set and coming out for the encore, lead singer Johnny Rotten told the crowd, "You'll get one number and one number only 'cause I'm a lazy bastard." That one number was a cover of The Stooges' "No Fun." Near the end of the song Rotten was on his knees and spoke into the mic, "There's no fun in being alone. This is no fun. It is no fun at all." After the final cymbal crashed, Rotten laughed and addressed the crowd with one final thought, "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Goodnight." He and the band left the stage with that and nothing else.
All of the Sex Pistols concerts were influential and their final performance was no exception. Among the crowd of over 5,000 people, more than the previous six shows of the US tour combined, was Eric Boucher who would go on to form The Dead Kennedys and adopt the stage name Jello Biafra and Keith Morris and Greg Ginn who would change their band name from Panic to Black Flag.
Although the Sex Pistols would get back together for a reunion tour in 1996, it was without bassist Sid Vicious who died of a heroin overdose on the same day of this post 38 years ago.
Read the Rolling Stone article of the show here.
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