My heart sunk when the audience didn't spontaneously applaud when he mentioned his recovery from substance abuse of 20+ years. But when they also ignored his added accomplishment of being off cigarettes for nearly 12 years; which is even harder to kick than drugs and alcohol, imo; I was and am really pissed off! I've been clean for 13 years but I've yet to beat these stupid cigarettes. He's an inspiration to me for having stopped smoking, alone! Oh yeah, AND he also happens to be 1 of the 4 musicians in The World-Changing Sex Pistols? Huh! This man is uniquely talented and special beyond even talented and special people! I haven't even mentioned how appealing his humble personality is; which reeks of authenticity, and is just more good stuff to add to the great man who seems to not know how really great he is!
I've been clean. using, clean, using blah, blah blah for over 40 years. In recovery doesn't need applause, tobacco is a lousy and easy to quit drug compared to class A's. Are you for real. U.K. punk was honest and angry, I've had my teeth kicked in. If my heart sank every time over triviality, I'd be a fake. Like you.
Steve is such a Great Man! An amazing guitar sound, perfect along with John's voice! First time I heard God Save the Queen in 1977 altered my life for the better. I was in my kitchen making a grill cheese or something and Steve's guitar entered the room thru my cheap little clock radio on top of the fridge and I stopped and went Holy Shit!
Babs Fitzpatrick Audiences don’t deserve to hear talented people, they’re all voyeurs and wannabes, like WC Fields used to say, “never smarten up a chump”.
Could listen to him all day, so interesting he didn't look nervous on stage and could play well. Great guitar sound ,great singles dominated the charts great to grow up with. 👍
@@ernestmostly8156 woody woodmansy i believe. Many yrs later steve offered him some money for the equipment. I think Steve interviewed him on his KLOS Jonesys jukebox.
Could they have gotten a more milquetoast corporate-techie dork to interview a punk rock icon? Terrible, unconfident interviewer. See the "Chris Farley Show" skit on SNL... "Do you remember that time you guys pissed off the Queen? Yeah. That was cool."
I knew steve in the early 80s my room mate had a connection for him and we hung with him for awhile we went to the Lord's of the new church at Perkins palace Pasadena went back stage in the dressing room when
@@wyrd7545 nope. He has nothing I repeat nothing to do with any of the music. At all. He helped finance and dress them up in clothing from his shops and Vivian Westwooda designs
Steve is the man. He is the #1 reason why I picked up a guitar. Im 21, now. When I was 14 or so, I heard NeverMind The Bollocks and it changed my life. Hes a great person. Thanks for this great interview!
I had ,the exact reaction, at the age,of 11 .then after listening, and getting into,Johnny Marr, and, after listening to how,he likes, laying different, souds,riffs,pics and enything else, on top of each other, upto 10. 12, different layers, for one Unique sound, that is when i realised! thats how Steve Jones, sounds so fucking, brilliant, in Sorry for blabing on Tate, just really liked your reply, I'm 54, so nice to see that music hasn't, changed, just the format, for listening, which is probably for the better?,
Steve Jones asked to buy the chairs after the interview he loved the look and feel of them he also wrote the questions before the interview which he said was the most enjoyable of his career due to the comfort of said chairs and the amazing delivery of the questions
This is great. As much as I love Lydon, I have a feeling Steve Jones' version of Sex Pistols history is a bit more accurate. He lacks the self-aggrandizement and hyperbolic tendencies that are Mr. Rotten's stock in trade.
I can't agree with the negative comments about the interviewer below - I think he gets a very interesting free-flowing conversation going and Steve helps by being very personable, articulate, and humorous - the knockers mustn't have seen many or any of the cringe-making strained interviews that I have...
It was nice to see Steve ( pie mash ) jonesy...... he has some humility now and always honest, back in the day he was right Lairy , he liked to think he was slick and a bit of a bird puller as we all did back then but Steve actually was! ....along with a few other wren boys. As an old school mate ( white city boy) it's great to see Steve has got this far... surviving those times were not easy. Well done on getting it together 👍
Steve was sooo hot back in the day, and cool , I agree with everything you say he is very humble and real now. I still think he is a very handsome guy, been in love with him forever since 70s.
The interviewer is TERRIBLE. Totally lacking in interpersonal skills. No sense of humor, none. He wouldn't know humor if it kicked his teeth out. All the blatant and not so blatant nuances went right over his head. Steve gave him so many juices information he could run with and this guy choose the most boring route, a big, blank rock. Steve is a goldmine. Brutally honest and funny.
Steve Jones and John Lydon are the most honest about their experience in music, producers, bios, songs lyrics, lyrics that meant something. not just crap about promoting riches they didn't have. they actually said something! Music is a rare talent. not everyone has "IT". preteens, teens, twentysomethings should really learn where Punk started and why. There is no punk today!
"where Punk started" Well where it started was that music critics of the early '70s decided to label some '60s rock and roll, such as the Standells, "punk rock." So you had the Stooges for instance, and later the Modern Lovers for instance (e.g. "Pablo Picasso" -- they included Jerry Harrison btw), and later the Sex Pistols for instance.
i love steve jones, he says he couldn't play back then but i think even during the sex pistols he was already a very tight guitar player. i love his riffs and catchy and fun solos and leads...
Bill Price (great sound engineer) says Jones was the tightest guitar player he ever worked with, and he worked many legendary musicians, he just plays up to the myth that band couldn't play, as Lydon says "nobody can not play the guitar as well as Jonesy"
He does a video where he breaks down most of the songs of Bollocks. He played power chords of course but the solos he came up with having no real knowledge of theory. McLaren said he could see something special in Steven when he was a wayward youth hanging around his shop.
@@matthewcohen7488 steve jones clearly had a great ear for guitar probably very naturally, his rhythm is great and yeah im sure he came up with those leads and solos by ear alone.....funny enough it sounds blues based though because steve was playing blues licks by ear probably because they just sounded cool. he loved to slide chords around too (half of punk sound was created by jones sliding power chords around fast, lol)and play those chuck berry licks....honestly jones style is very rock n roll!
steve jones might have not been a great player wen he fitst started but he became one of thee great ruthuim player around. no one looks or plays cooler licks than jonesy !!! #underated
That film the audience guy asks him about is actually about how football started. The original game was a way of letting off steam for a town or village in England and it's true that the only "goal" to the "game" was to get the ball from one end of the town to the other! Starting in the middle, the north v's south or east v's west (whatever). Basically a series of pitched battles that would take all day until the ball got to one end or everyone was dead! 😂 I love history!
The choice of high stool chairs was wrong. The guest looked uncomfortable and vulnerable. Much better some armchairs, where he could relax. The interviewer needs to learn some questioning skills. He wouldn't know an open question from a cream cake.
Luke Hmm!...unlikely, even as uneducated and dull minded as Steve was back then i'm sure he could've figured out that you simply re-string the guitar from top to bottom and Viola!!
@@thestr8person Don't know what you're talking about. You can't just restring it 'the other way'. You have to replace the nut with a left handed nut and also flip the bridge (depending in the make of guitar) If you don't do those things your guitar will never stay in tune.
I love listening to Steve, so bloody down the line. Reminds me of blokes like my mates and me except I never managed to play guitar on the greatest songs I've ever heard!
Agreed, Ant. I love to hear Steve talking about things. He has a nice speaking voice. His guitar playing is so special. When I crank up the live reunion performances, they are phenomenal.
People underestimate how rough British working class life was, by the 1970's the image of the UK was Punk, Skinhead, Football Hooligans, failed brutalist, Soviet style architecture, casual violence and all quite justified for a majority of people. 2/3rds of England's cities looked like a Victorian version of Detroit in the late 90's and Clockwork orange was banned by Kubrick in the UK because it was being a bit to real...
ok so it wasn't just me then. Cause your right Jones is so entertaining but the interviewer was such a let down. Especially when Steve said he "acquired" equipment and the interviewer was like what do you mean?
Steve's been through the same questions time and again. He's said it's fucking boring. Interviewers always ask him the same questions in general. This seems reasonable
@@youjoker9647 Yeah, but its hard to talk about much else. The high point of his career was the Sex Pistols. They had gathered to talk about the NMTB album on what was the 35th anniversary of its release. What else do you expect the guy to ask him? "Are you intent on purchasing a second shed to bring you inline with your empithet?"
Love listening to this guy the sincerity no bullshit so refreshing No airs and graces ,nor trying to be anything ,clever ,smart ass,or portray an image Are there any Americans like this
i feel like steve jones is one of those unsung heroes of punk/rock. He really did alot of work of NMBHCSP and his playing style has always been so solid and pure.
Steve or Jonesy-pure class, no pretense, i think...but then you will get tha bastards that expect em to be like gods, or some pious Rolling Stone garbage, and I think its great he lists his influences, Holly, Dolls, etc., unlike some, who invented-everything, except Rn R, of course. blah blah...
Interesting hearing from Steve, he's a good talker. The interviewer comes across like a bit of geeky, know it all, google executives' slave, but he provided a decent contrast and didn't constantly interrupt like so many nobs these days.
I retract my original comment. The interviewer is a geek. And has not a clue about how good the album was. The music was great. First time I heard it I was blown away. It's in my top ten albums. EVER!!
I remember the impact the music,the sound, the energy, the look and artwork of the Sex Pistols had on me in 1977 when my older brother brought 3 of their singles home from England in 1977. I was 9 yrs, but was grown up on all the great stuff, thanks to my brother. Hendrix, CCR, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Bowie, Lou Reed, T. Rex, Queen, Alice Cooper (band), The Sweet, Slade, and of course the 60s great bands the Who, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. None of them, and i mean NONE of them had prepared me for this band and i just immediately knew, that i had found the first band that i could truly relate to. You either hated it or loved it! It was not punk, it was beyond that! And boy, even if they weren't supergroup musicians, what they did was worth 10 times more in terms of artistic value! This was pure Rock n' Roll, like the Rolling Stones, the Who and Hendrix had been in the 60's, and i think its perfect that they didn't do another album, cause i don't know how they possibly could ever improve on Never Mind the Bollocks!
the interesting thing about that list is that almost all the them are still highly regarded. Punk on the other hand appears to finally be getting some critical reappraisal and people are beginning to wonder if Crass, Sham 69, X-ray specs, The Slits were any good and the answer appears to be a firm "not really"! The Sex pistols only wrote four good tunes and even the Clash only made their fortune & critical reputation post 1977 (London Calling wasn't even a punk album!)
The best band....Ever!..The best fuckin` album...EVER!!! If you ain`t bought the 35th anniversary boxset...Do it now!! Well worth the price tag of £100..and I contributed to the NMTB Diaries...so there!!!
Yeah he is but he actually lost weight since kevin Pollack Interview last year... I love this guy Steve and the sex pistols meant the world to me when I was younger.... The only honest band in the world...
Steve Jones' quote, "We're not into music, we're into chaos" appeared in one of the earliest reviews of a Sex Pistols gig in the NME in 1976. I remember reading it and being very impressed. I was the same age as the Pistols and was interested in what was generally known back then, if known at all, as rock music made by punks, though no-one called it Punk Rock. This interest had been engendered by writers at the NME, especially Nick Kent, who had written big article on Iggy Pop, and Charles Shaar Murray who was commenting on the New York punk scene. By the start of 1976 I already had Raw Power, The Ramones and Patti Smith's Horses. I remember thinking that the few pictures I had seen of Johnny Rotten looked promising, but the deal was sealed when I saw the band and some of the other early punks on a programme made by Janet Street-Porter on London Weekend Television. Steve struggles to answer the interviewers question regarding the bands success in terms of their impact and influence. The music that he and the rest of the band made was tough, hard rock. Not particularly original, as he attests, but certainly of a type thin on the ground by then. The clincher was the character, style and attitude of Johnny Rotten, he made all the difference.
After Ed Sanders of The Fugs ("Coca Cola Douche") used "punk rock" to describe his own first solo album and music writer Lester Bangs used "punk" to describe Iggy Pop in 1970, music writers such as Greg Shaw, Dave Marsh, Lenny Kaye, and Robert Hilburn used the expression "punk rock" in print during 1971-1974. That included Hilburn describing the New York Dolls, who Steve Jones, John Lydon, and Glen Matlock admired.
That may all be true, but no-one in the UK used the expression Punk Rock as a genre descriptive prior to the Sex Pistols. Iggy and the Dolls may have been described by American journalists, largely unread in the UK I have to say, as "punks" or as exhibiting the traits of a punk, meaning they were scuzzy, sneering, probably drug addled, street level losers whose music, pretty much ignored in the UK and, I'd wager, the US, was regarded as poorly played sub-Stones riffery, but there was no genre to which the description "Punk Rock" was applied. Nobody walked into record shops and asked to look through their punk rock section, at least not in the UK, pre 1977.
Steve Jones tells it how it was and its great pistols had to happen and the clash etc and nothing has come close to what happened in 77 been few like idles and Sleaford mods but a movement happened and punk carried on like gbh discharge exploited and sick on the bus but remember never mind the bollocks is as fresh now as it was in 77 god save the pistols
I was 13 and worked the school holidays for a local tomato grower to earn money for records. Bollocks was one of many first Punk albums I brought in 79. SLF, Dead Kenedys, UK Subs and many more. Jones guitar style stood out against most as real talent.
40 years listening to Bollocks and it never gets old. And Jonesy summed up music's current plight perfectly: there are lots of bands, but no new movement. I see lots of gifted musicians that have clearly mastered the past, but no new movement. Rock and roll has become an artifact.
As an American teenager in 1977, at 16, the FIRST time I heard the single God Save the Queen I FREAKING LOVED IT. FIRST LISTEN. There is no question about that at all.
TERRIBLE interviewer/host. He asked every typical question. A roomful of Pistols fans who took the time to come see Steve Jones talk, already know all those tired questions, printed over and over in magazines....he also had ZERO follow up questions. What a wasted opportunity. Terrible interviewer.
Wow, the 70's seem like a good time for getting high. You could go to a doctor and get pills that easy?? Fuck me!! In 2020 doctors won't give you painkillers for anything less than a BROKEN FUCKING NECK, and even then you may just get fucking Naproxen or something. The abusers have really fucked things up for people who really have pain ...
They took their musical style from the New York Dolls and The Ramones. Malcolm McLaren was involved with the NYDs before the Pistols. When you hear the Dolls first album and you know they toured the UK and Malcolm was involved, it's obvious.
Steve was cool. He was not happy with the road he was taking and wanted to better himself and he put a lot of work into the Pistols. I am glad he did. If the Pistols had not worked who knows what would have happened to Steve? And we would not have one of the greatest rock and roll albums ever made. NMTB saved me. I suffered from depression in the 90s and I could not get out of bed without playing NMTB. I found the Pistols hugely therapeutic.
