Sid Vicious Pistols bassist Glen Matlock as a talented vocalist, Vicious's abilities as a bass player were debated. During an interview for "," when Jones was asked why he, instead of Vicious, recorded the bass parts of "Never Mind the Bollocks," Jones responded, "Sid was in a hospital with hepatitis, so he couldn't really play, not that he could play anyway." The only song that he played on in the studio was "Bodies." Vicious asked Lemmy, the bassist of Motörhead, to teach him how to play with the words, "I can't play bass," to which Lemmy replied, "I know." According to Paul
Sex Pistols Lydon lambastes the film, saying that it "celebrates heroin addiction", goes out of its way to "humiliate [Vicious's] life", and completely misrepresents the Sex Pistols' part in the London punk scene. The original four Sex Pistols reunited in 1996 for the six-month Filthy Lucre Tour, which included dates in Europe, North and South America, Australia and Japan. The band members' access to the archives associated with "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" facilitated the production of the 2000 documentary "The Filth and the Fury". This film—directed, like its predecessor, by Temple—was formulated as an attempt to tell the story from