This is a weirdly sad picture, but also weirdly funny in a way: the Sex Pistols are sitting around watching Sid try to play guitar presumably before their show at the Longhorn Ballroom, part of the infamous January 1978 tour that ended them a few days later. The Longhorn was better known for country music (and for having been run at one point by Jack Ruby), but Malcolm McLaren had made a point of booking “redneck” venues like that to create a stink, which he undeniably got whether or not the band wanted it… I said “presumably” before the show because Sid’s nose was broken in the course of it and he was covered in blood by the end of it, which he is not here. I particularly love Lydon in this shot for some reason, glumly regarding the spectacle before him, unable to decide if Sid learning guitar is the worst thing to ever happen to the band or mild in comparison with the other shit the band had suffered by this time. Couldn’t be much worse than his bass playing, surely.
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