Big John wrote:The story has always been that the drummer and guitar player stole all the Sex Pistols backline from Bob Marley and the Wailers. By breaking into a theater in London where Marley was playing for several days and stealing it by moving it to their nearby apartment.
Marley did have gear stolen and that gear was the same as the backline of the sex pistols.
I never heard the Marley story before, but both Steve Jones and John Lydon have copped to the fact that the mikes the Sex Pistols used were stolen from a David Bowie gig. The show was being recorded for a live album, so they ended up with much better gear than the usual handful of SM57's and SM58's. Jones also claims he nicked a guitar from Ron Wood's collection when he snuck backstage at a Faces concert. By all accounts, Jones was a serious kleptomaniac back in the day.
"Everything should be kept. I regret everything I’ve ever thrown away." -- Richard Hell