Lydon writes, "he wasn't too bad at all for three-chord songs."
I think that says it all. He wasn't ever going to be Jaco Pastorius, but that wasn't what Lydon wanted at that point either. There are pretty clear bass lines coming out of his fingers and through the amp in this video despite the legend to the contrary. Lydon played up the whole punk image at all times, he says, "Do you want some more tuneless racket" right as Jones is carefully tuning his guitar for the next song.
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