Great Interview from * Behind The Camera * with Steve Jones about Sex Pistols and himself with clips from the promo video Freedom Fighter And Sex Pistols.
And with a tedious inevitability, rock musician gets hooked on smack. Glad to see Jonesy has put that aberration behind him and now gets off on pie & mash. That's more like it, geezer.
@Jimmy Jenkinson - Even better; I'm 'also' vegetarian. Vegan pie & mash is pretty easy to knock up at home. I got into the habit of having it for breakfast during lockdown furlough. Probably heading for a heart attack meself if they hadn't called me back to work.
I would go to a veggie restaurant w/Steve for ages around 2000/2001 when he helped our my bands last album...don't know if he still dosen't eat red meat...when we 1rsr met him in '83 he wouldn't eat a McDonald's buger but Chicken McNuggets were ok ! The girl said "would you like BBQ/Ranch or Honey mustard" Steve said "I donnit ma-a" (it dosen't matter) and the girl goes "WHAAAAT" ? Lol
Then the rock stars clean up after numerous failed attempts in Betty Ford and they write a book and lecture us for the rest of their lives about what clean living great role models they are. It's like: "duh all you did was quit drugs mate."
I was 13 in 1976 when the Bill Grundy Show aired. By the next year I was going to Punk gigs in London every weekend. I would love the chance to re-visit that time for just one day! It was far from all good…but what a time it was!
I am so shocked at the comments! I love this tune and the CD. I liked the interview. He seems down to earth, nice and honest. This is rock, not punk. Well done Jonesy! 💗
A guy that stole other musicians equipment in the 60/70s in England has no respect from me. People were dirt poor in England back then so he probably ended a lot of bands carriers by doing that. And here he is a grunger with a The Cult copy band living in the fucking hills in California. The guy is a douche.
Yea it’s good. Steve is versatile. Besides the Pistols and this album, the Professionals and Neurotic Outsiders (a supergroup also featuring members of Guns N Roses and Duran Duran) were good projects. he’s also played with Iggy, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, Megadeth, ICP (lol), even Roy Orbison and Bob Dylan!
Understated and under rated. He must have lost a chunk of time when he got lost in heroin. He’s lucky he came out alive considering he was the victim of abuse.
He wasn't into heroin for that long really. And his solo albums are pretty mediocre. Copy of others stuff like the Cult etc. If you try to forget Sex Pistols image and just listen to their music they are really just another rock and roll band with great songs. It's Rotten who makes it edgy. Take away Rotten and their image they are just another rock band.
The fact that he's wingin' it on every episode makes it good but that also makes it cringe. He does absolutely no research it seems. But he floats on the rock stars have respect for him I guess.
@@eltoro969 Let's me be clear, he might be many things that are not favourable, but is definitely not a "fake punk". He was the real thing, period. Most after were fakes.
@This is 86 calling Control. Come in, Control... Punk really only existed in its truest form from about 1975 to 1981. The original punk scenes were about originality and individuality. IF you listen to 70s punk there generally was no one sound. After early 1980s it was most sloganeering, bad song writing, emulating a look/fashions, sound, that is, conformity. I grew up in that time and it was much different until everyone gave up their individuality of sound.
Thanx Johan for sharing this video. I was looking for it since 30 years. I had it on VHS tape at that time that someone erased by mistake... Steve Jones rules...
Steve, there’s no need to blame the drugs for the difficulties you had landing a record deal. Listening to this track in the background, particularly the god awful lyrics, I can see there was a much simpler explanation.
Yeah well, here in Sydney some of the people I knew in punk, including a drummer I was in a band with started sounding like the stuff Steve was doing. A natural progression really.
Ha, all the cassette tapes strewn all over the floor 😂 I like the long hair biker look he had then (not those trousers though 😂) Freedom Fighter is a really good song
I remember buying fire and gasoline as a 15 year old back in 98. I was initially disappointed, as I wanted it to sound like pistols or neurotic outsiders. I came to love the album though. Even mercy has some decent tracks. I LOVE the professionals. That had serious potential. Too bad jonesy was deep in the drugs by then. Love jonesy to the end! Hope he’s feeling better.
How ironic! In 1976 he’s in a band that look and sound light years away from anything gone before. Totally ground breaking. And after that, without the genius of John Lydon, he’s singing about being on a f-ing freeway, in a total cliche of a band. Lydon on the other hand went on to create PIL
your not taking into account the fact that lydon had nothing to do with the pistols music. he just wrote the lyrics. clearly its the music thats the most important. its the music, the riffs, the chord sequences that make the songs as good as they are.
@@philshine3388 i agree. the pistols wouldn't be the pistols without him. hes integral to them, and so is jones and matlock. just one of those bands where they wouldn't have had the impact they did without either of the members. the tunes would still have been the same without lydon, so they would still be the same musically, but without lydons lyrics attitude and vocal style obviously it wouldn't be the same.
in 1989, there was barely any punk rock, and what punk there was was beneath Steve in terms of what he had experienced. So basically he did his best to fit in with LA. rockers in order to get paid, and perhaps even more importantly, get laid. In terms of his guitar riffs it wasn't much of a stretch. And his vocals actually kicked ass.
+SILLYBILLY BILLYSILLY - I don't believe Steve Jones is 'out of it' in the least during this interview - in fact I'd lay claim to the fact that he is - completely fucking SOBER - so disagree totally with your comment...
i am a lil'bit surprised that Steve-Jones got into 'H' (expecially really bad off on it).. with seeing what had terribly happened to Sid ~&~ Nancy or the likes of Darby-Crash(less than a year after Sid) ~&~ even also how bad off people like "Johnny-Thunders" ~&~ "Jerry-Nolan" from the New-York-Doll's! were on 'H' at around basically all the same time period! glad that he says he's off it now currently though! because once you are hooked on-it!.. it's a VERY! Hard! Fight! to just! get OFF! that Shit!! for even just a-little-while! let-alone! a-long-time! like hopefully! for the-rest of your-life! it's truly an-everyday! fight! no-matter! if you've been Clean! for just barely! #1-Month! ~OR~ very-well-over! #1-Decade! it's always! going to-be! a inner-struggle! it's truly one of the most destructive drugs around! nothing else matters when you're addicted to that CRAP!!...
FoolishFlock You don't really understand junkies, do ya? They don't sit there and say, "Gee, it was bad for Sid, so I'd better not do it." That's part of WHY they do it, or at least keep doing it. It's called self-destruction.
So long hair is acceptable now that it's 1989? A 34 year old man is wearing his hair in a way that he would have enthusiastically kicked someone's ass for wearing back when he was 21?
What is the problem? 88-89 era of hard rock...and all the 80's. No one cared about punk so he had to do something. Come on people at least he tried himself in something different and stayed by music.
Bussarin Boi hate to say it. But he most definitely is high on herion or pharmaceutical opioids. I’m on them for an injury for the past 10 years. You can spot another user from a mile away.. glossed & pinned eyes.
Remember seeing this after I first discovered Sex Pistols, and wondering what the Hell kinda music he was playing...but last night, talking about this clip with my Wife, somehow the damn lyrics to that song popped into my head quick as a hiccup...I reckon it WASN'T forgettable dreck...
It's crazy how thin/muscular he was back then. He looks and sounds NOTHING like he does today. Then again, he was also on a lot of drugs at this point.
One thing bothers me (not really). Why did Steve bother to steal a van to steal equipment from a van? He could have just stolen the van with the equipment in it! Someone could have taken him to do the RV point! I’m not advocating theft, but just saying that Steve’s tactics were, on the surface of it, illogical 🤣
