From the film Sex Pistols - The Long Lost Videos DVD (Dave Goodman Productions) also known as Spunk the movie


"For the first time ever fourteen Sex Pistols obscure studio recordings lovingly synched to rare live and studio footage". So reads the sleeve.

Review of the film:
Dave Goodman's last bootleg hurrah. It seems inevitable, that having plundered his own Pistols catalogue in everyway imaginable over the years, he would turn to videos as another way to rehash the same material. It's surprising he didn't think of it sooner.

The title is misleading for starters; the videos are not lost, because they never existed in the first place. Don't expect unseen material either. To compile this collection, Dave has used a variety of visual sources to obtain film of the band in action from 76 - 78, both legal and pirate, all of which is in circulation. The quality of the footage varies widely, from superb to awful (clips from Winterland are shockingly bad). Also, he has clearly made the decision to mess around with some of the film, and in some cases, downgrade it deliberately. If this is designed to give it an edgy feel, if does not work. It's irritating. The use of clips from the official promo videos also seems pointless.

Other gripes. Each track comes with an annoying Demo Not For Sale slapped on screen for a few seconds with accompanying bleep. Oh, and Dave has dubbed crowd noises on the start and end of tracks.

The lack of Glen footage, means that Sid inevitably gets to star in his absence. Never has Sid's bass playing sounded so good! Glen does appear in the two versions of Anarchy (as does Sid), and Dave has pointed out in the credits who actually did play bass.

Fun can be had with Satellite and Submission. Dave found the cupboard bare for these two and other tactics had to be deployed. Video trickery, and more 'treatment' of footage makes for a reasonable job on Satellite, but inspiration was all but spent by Submission, which is merely a collection of repeating 'photos. However, it allows Dave to insert some pics of himself. Fair enough I suppose.

So, is it all so much garbage?

Bizarrely, it is well worth a look. Partly out of curiosity, and partly because the clips of the band are expertly synced to the tracks, and therefore some of the videos are actually quite good! Viewing them all together is a little hard going on the eyes, but in small doses, they are far more palatable. Perhaps just as bizarrely, with his track record of suspect Pistols releases, the DVD seems to bring the Goodman saga to an almost logical conclusion, and acts as a strangely fitting epitaph.

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