Sid Vicious Appearance
Mondo Video featured Sid Vicious performing the classic song "My Way" from The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, which had not yet been released in America at the time. On the initial Pacific Arts home video release, the audio is muted before Sid begins singing. A crawl appears onscreen explaining that the owners of the song's copyright wouldn't permit audio of the performance to be included on the tape: "It wasn't a case of money," the crawl explains, "They wouldn't even discuss it." The sound returns when the performance switches to a heavy punk rock guitar riff, and Sid pulling out a gun, firing (presumably blanks) into the audience, flipping them the bird, and walking off.
The muted audio and explanatory crawl were carried over on the 2009 Shout! Factory release, despite the fact that the Sid Vicious version of the song can be seen and heard, in its entirety, in the DVD release of The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle, also released by Shout! Factory.
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