Sid Vicious is by far the biggest fake of all time, brought into the fold to replace Glen Matlock on bass for no other reason then he looked the part. The guy couldn't play a note, never played on one of the sex pistols tunes, and when they did gigs Vicious wasn't even plugged in, the bass parts were actually played by a second bass player hiding in the wings. In an interview with Lemmy ( Motorhead ) who'd tried to teach Sid how to play Lemmy stated, "Yeah. It was all uphill. And he still couldn't play bass when he died.""one of the most important punk rock icons of all time " was, for want of a better phrase, a total ***** fraud.