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The Official Xbox 360 Magazine was kind enough to send over this hilarious clip from a video of a UK Guitar Hero III launch party gone terribly wrong.

Johnny Rotten, singer for the Sex Pistols, was paid to help promote the game at Activision's launch party event, but he started off by bashing the game instead. "It's rubbish, I hate the whole thing."

The surly rocker continues to insult the product he's paid to promote by saying "What I like is it weren't teaching you how to be a rock star, it was teaching you how not to be a rock star..."

Sadly, that's about all he said about Guitar Hero III, and the rest of the time on stage was spent ranting about everything but the music game. He finally rounds things out as the worst celebrity guest promoter ever by shouting "I AM ENGLAND" into a crowd of game journos that had to be looking at their watches and heading toward the door by then. 

Kudos to OXM's for the inclusion of a "swear counter" in the video, which hits nearly one-hundred by the end of the clip. 


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Wedge's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/28/2007 19:29
Wedge
The rerecording for GH III was a fucking travesty. Also... cocks.
ElfShotTheFood's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/28/2007 19:41
ElfShotTheFood
I bet he doesn't hate the royalty checks.
Churchhills Dog's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/28/2007 19:55
Churchhills Dog
GG on missing the entire point of the video Destructoid.

1.) he loved the game.
2.) he didn't go off on some wild tangent like some drunken dock worker. The sudience started an informal Q&A session which went completely off-topic.

OXM.UK spliced together the most over-the-top and crass segments from the event to completely change the tone of what Lydon was doing. Not surprising given the ethics of Britain's press.
twatman's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/28/2007 20:28
twatman
Fuck me, the disrepect that is streaming out of twats here.

The Sex Pistols and PIL were both excellent.
UNDERSTAR's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/28/2007 20:49
UNDERSTAR
Who???
chado53's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/28/2007 23:09
chado53
you guys just don't understand...that's how he is..he got paid to host a skate video back in 2000 and had the same shitty attitude but that's just how he is...people take him too seirously. i mean, i hate the sex pistols..not my cup of tea but that's how he is...that's whoever paid him..that's their fault for not doing a background check on how he is. At least he didn't lie out of his ass, guys just saying what HE FELT...i give him respect for that. HE WASN'T PAID TO APPROVE of guitar hero.

here's a segment taken from the skate video..this is the only one i could find due to copyright but here it is...if you just wait you'll see "rotten" introduce him. The other people he introduces he bashes hardcore..it's just in his nature
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=6819040
Batthink's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/29/2007 02:32
Batthink
What on earth did the promoters expect? Rotten to do what he was told?
hollywooda's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/29/2007 04:13
hollywooda
ohhh controversial!!!..... No, not really, if he'd kicked one of the jorno's in the face pulled down his pants & sh1t out a picture of the queen out being humped by a rottweiler maybe, I'd still think this guys "rock n roll". But swearing while your being paid to promote a video game......
John, you've gone through the bottom of the barrel & your scratching at the earths core...give it up

I THANK YOU!
chado53's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/29/2007 08:51
chado53
you guys just don't understand...that's how he is..he got paid to host a skate video back in 2000 and had the same shitty attitude but that's just how he is...people take him too seirously. i mean, i hate the sex pistols..not my cup of tea but that's how he is...that's whoever paid him..that's their fault for not doing a background check on how he is. At least he didn't lie out of his ass, guys just saying what HE FELT...i give him respect for that. HE WASN'T PAID TO APPROVE of guitar hero.

here's a segment taken from the skate video..this is the only one i could find due to copyright but here it is...if you just wait you'll see "rotten" introduce him. The other people he introduces he bashes hardcore..it's just in his nature
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=6819040
DJBaroque's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/29/2007 09:58
DJBaroque
It's been 30 years and Rotten hasn't changed. You'd be pissed off too if the only way to sell your music was through a video game. There are a lot of artist with bitter-sweet feeling towards Guitar Hero/Rock Band. On one hand they got people buying their music again, instead of downloading it for free. On the other hand, your song is now a joke cuz it's on a game. Hence the ridicule in earlier comments for the fore mentioned Sex Pistols "single"

I love the Sex Pistols, but I will NEVER-EVER-EVER-EVER buy guitar hero 1, 2 , or 3 or 4 or 5 or 10 (and there will be that many)

or you can take this explanation for Mr. J. Rotten... his own words

I've seen you in the mirror when the story began
And I fell in love with you I love your mortal sin
Your brains are locked away but I love your company
I only ever leave you when you got no money
I got no emotions for anybody else
You better understand I'm in love with myself,
Myself, my beautiful self

A no feelings
A no feelings
A no feelings
For anybody else
Eurotuner's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/29/2007 11:25
Eurotuner
I was waiting for the 'meltdown' to happen but didn't see anything. I never saw him attack the journos either...god I hate some journos they exaggerate crap like this way too much.

In a round about kinda way, Rotten was saying he loved the game and so did the kids he played it with. What he said is that it's great it doesn't teach you how to be a rockstar because being a rockstar is a big fucking joke, im guessing he is talking about the problems he had in his rise to fame...
nerpin's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/29/2007 15:43
nerpin
The Sex Pistols song in GH3 is the one I most dread having to do. Not due to difficulty, just for how boring it is.

Rotten is...very old and just wants some attention. We should all give him a small nod, a pat on the head and then be on our merry little ways.
AliasWyvernspur's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/29/2007 16:27
AliasWyvernspur
This kinda crap was cool in the 70s, but lame in the 2000s. Acts like an alzheimer's patient now.

Also, @bloodylip: win for the It's Always Sunny avatar. Charlie rules!
Noah's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/30/2007 09:29
Noah
Sounds like the audience was enjoying it, I'd by laughing my arse off unless I was standing in the front row....then I'd be scared.
Super Cool Guest from the Future's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/30/2007 22:08
Super Cool Guest from the Future
"This is shit"
"Shit?
THIS...
IS...
ENGLAND!"
*kicks8
ridley80's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/01/2007 16:19
ridley80
I'm ending every comment with...

I AM CANADA!
Cyberxion's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/01/2007 17:36
Cyberxion
Actually having watched the video, I think that the point was missed severely here. He says that he loved the game, and those he played with loved it too. And he said that he liked how it didn't teach you how to be a rock star in the traditional sense, meaning you're not a fucking asshole who's self-important because you can play the guitar well. Or something. He wasn't shitting on the game at all though, that much was clear. @_@
PetiePal's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/01/2007 21:25
PetiePal
I AM NEW JERSEY!
TheBanzerfaust's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/02/2007 04:05
TheBanzerfaust
I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD! ;)
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