Steve Jones of Sex Pistols speaks to Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt | IN FULL | Rockonteurs

[@thomasandersen6719]

Nice to see Steve look healthy and good...love him

[@comedychannels]

Was lucky enough to meet Steve and have a bite to eat after he'd finished his regular radio show broadcast one sunny day in LA. A top bloke , down to earth, not fame affected in any way and bloody funny. What struck me was his genuine love of music and modesty about the contribution he'd personally made to the culture. His guitar playing on Never Mind the Bollocks is sensational. God Bless you Steve and good to see you still enjoying life and looking so healthy !!

[@VincentRE79]

Yes lovely guy, very down to earth guy.

[@JPSixgunner]

Yeah, Josney's contributions are relatively small productionwise. However, it cannot be overstated just how very impactful that small body of work was/is to the music world! Just Nevermind The Bollocks, by itself was such a huge game changer.

[@VincentRE79]

@@JPSixgunner He was a great guitarist, probably one of the best from the Punk era.

[@CrimsonWhiteIndigo]

@@VincentRE79was? Still is my friend

[@VincentRE79]

@@CrimsonWhiteIndigo His style veered more towards Heavy Rock when the Sex Pistols split up. Not sure he would have many Punk bands in his list of influences. What do you think?

[@faeembrugh]

A friend of mine met him in LA where they started talking about a Norton Commando parked up on the street. Part of the conversation apparently went: 'So what's your name mate?' 'Steve Jones' 'What, like the bloke in the Sex Pistols?' 'I AM the bloke in the Sex Pistols, you div!'

[@nickcohoon820]

Great interview guys, Steve Jones is a British icon in British music. A very under rated guitar player, his work on the Pistols stuff is and was incredible

[@jeffsimon9594]

Yeah he can play that major barre chord up and down the neck like no-one else.

[@innercityunit2112]

@@jeffsimon9594 ..Amazing how 'easy' rock ‘n roll is when someone else does all the hard work. Steve Jones’s playing is both distinctive and deceptively difficult to replicate, dismissing it only shows a lack of understanding.

[@VintageBoxingTM]

@@innercityunit2112I get the feeling Jeff’s not using sarcasm. Steve does have his own simple style, with his own little idiosyncrasies, but yeah, he’s got his own sound. And I’ve always been a fan of that sound.

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

@@jeffsimon9594 But didn't he sometimes vary it with power chords, omitting the third? Maybe not, that's too prog.

[@jeffsimon9594]

@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Haha, oh god did he? How utterly pretentious of him. He probably went to Charterhouse school with Genesis and just learned to speak like a London cabbie at Malcolm & Vivienne's urging!

[@davidjohnstone7724]

Man, I love Steve. These three guys are just naturals around each other, such a wonderful chemistry.

[@peterdaigle4772]

I love Jonesy, always have. I've followed his antics for years. I read Lonely Boy twice. I'm glad to see he's doing alright

[@Itelkner]

Same, man! I've read it twice too, one hell of a story. Steve looks healthy and pretty trim and seems like he's a good place with things.

[@adamjohnthompson]

Definitely one of best & warrants a part 2

[@Martin-R335]

The one and only Steve Jones. I'm in.

[@neilb224]

Pistol - Dirty Fucker - Junkie - Jonesey’s Jukebox - Lonely Boy - Lovely Geezer - National Fucking Treasure. ❤

[@heighwaysonthewing]

old pub band up past their bed time

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

Hes not Welsh taff

[@davedavidson2213]

@@Stephen-lx9nm Does the Taff flow through Wrexham?? Must have been diverted(?)

[@Stevali1966]

Thanks guys for bringing this to us. I managed to catch the band in Birmingham. And this is the cherry on the top.

[@drychaf]

I saw the Pistols near San Jose, on the Filthy Lucre Tour. I'd been a 15/16yr old punk fan in '77. I'd happened to be on holiday in '96 and had got to San Francisco and there's the Pistols about to play nearby! Although Barry Walters of the San Fransisco Examiner didn't concur (he was looking for the revolutionary band of 20yr earlier, for some reason), they were on top form. Steve rocked, and John was hilarious. As a Brit who, like almost everyone else, had missed them performing in the 70s, it was confirmation that, even after the revolution, the prior hype behind them as a rock band had been justified.

[@Sotangy247]

Brilliant. very relaxed and natural as well as very informative. Loved it . Well done guys

[@joeswinford2618]

Thanks guys. Brilliant. Jonesy is definitely one of my guitar heroes.

[@MissingMars]

This is excellent! Thanks guys. I miss Steve doing vids at KLOS, his guests were killer. Steve has a knack of pulling the fly on the wall perspective outta his guests!

[@mjh5437]

Why don`t that KLOS radio station have him back?

[@christown2827]

Yes I remember him jamming with Yes members on 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart. And of course when he asked Ozzy not to swear who then said straight away "I f****** hate New Year" and Sharon piped up that they were usually in bed by 10pm on New Years eve.

[@garyhillman4993]

That was brilliant with Ozzy n Sharon on the show. Great laf

[@Muirton66]

Like Paul Cook there is not a hint of ego with Steve, two of the nicest guys you would ever want to meet, cheers for the interview.

[@gaffersteve]

Great episode love Jonesy , such a funny knowledgeable guy , the Jukebox shows were always great and as someone also suffered addiction/alcoholism a lot of what he says resonates Was way too young to be a punk but loved the music,still do, and remember it all happening and the impact they had, we’d come up to town on a family visit and we’d drive down Kings road so we could see all the punks Far more exciting than seeing the Palace😄 extraordinary when you think about it how almost 50 years later its importance is still recognised and they continue to influence young bands today etc

[@garyhillman4993]

Fantastic news they’re touring next year luv that front man. Hope they bring a new song out

[@ConradMadden]

Love this ! Great stuff guys

[@GarY-Dela-HoYa]

Good to see steve looking well / my guitar hero 🎸👏

[@jeffkelty6636]

Mercy is a great album, Steve. I still listen.

[@555tg]

I never get bored of listening to the History of the Pistols . I must of heard the stories a thousand times but every time Is like the first ( Brilliant ) . Steve says it at it Is and Is engaging to Listen to .Makes you Proud to be British and Steve Is Looking good . Great Interview Gary and Guy .

[@yardelli]

Great interview. Yes would love a PT.2 - really enjoy listening about the early stuff - London has changed so much!

[@JFlx14]

Brilliant, and thank you!! There is this American lady, she has a KZbin channel, she was the one who brought Steve Jones’ leather jacket from LA, to London, to the Sex Pistols office in Oxford Street in mid 1977. 👍 Her Channel is called “Why not go”. I love the Sex Pistols and the stories that sorround it. Thank you again!

[@VintageBoxingTM]

This sounds a canny story! Shall look out for this tale, and her show 👍

[@kevincross9206]

Fantastic interview, could listen to Steve all day 👏🏼

[@simonprodhan5050]

what a brilliant interview by gary and guy! jonesey comes across superbly, no bullshitting just honesty, so much crap is spoken these days about the Pistols and punk often by people who have their own agenda or don't have a clue, this is how it should always be, genuine fans and a genuine guest, thoroughly enjoyable

[@dangl650]

Great interview. Steve was always my favourite Pistol. Pure 100% honesty.

[@suburban60sKid]

Glad to see Jonesy's back on a new forum. Worked with this amazing chap engineering for him on remotes with his pal Paul Cook in Austin and Hawaii. Always loved playing "oldies trivia" with him during breaks on "Indie 103.1" First time I heard Jonesy on the radio, he played Lou Christie's amazing "I'm Gonna Make You Mine", and I almost drove off the road. The day Dave Grohl sat in to fill in for Jonesy on KLOS while impersonating him so perfectly even fooled me listening in the car. Jonesy's Jukebox is classic. Look for it and his new podcasts. You'll learn more about music and artists from him than anyone else!

[@charlesnolan7602]

Steve was a great interviewer on K-Rock in Los Angeles last decade....

[@peterdaigle4772]

Jonesys Jukebox was great!

[@briankennedy1192]

The best!!❤..

[@VintageBoxingTM]

@@peterdaigle4772Miss the box. Followed it from Indie thru to KLOS. Hope he brings it back when he gets time of course!

[@joncarr9380]

Wasnt kroq. Was indie 103.1, then klos

[@VintageBoxingTM]

@ kroq was in between. Although the shorter lived of the three.

[@garyhillman4993]

I don’t think Steve realises his riffs will go down as some of the greatest catchiest in British music

[@jnyfumare]

I love Jonesey!! Good man!!

[@shaun2647]

Steve's guitar solo in Anarchy is still the greatest ever, nothing has ever been so powerful and effective with so few cords. Absolutely incredible.

[@martinmcdermot8731]

Great interview guys. I really enjoyed it. Steve has the best rock guitar sound I ever heard

[@Chad.Telecaster]

That was a great watch, cheers guys.

[@hectorktorides5331]

Steve Jones was always my favourite Pistol, a truly genuinely nice guy and a legend.

[@TonyChettleburgh]

Love Steve Jones, just such a major part of my teens and a superb guitar player to boot, no one can make a guitar sound the way he does.

[@simonsuniverseofmusic8585]

I really love Steve he is someone who has been so amazing in the universe of music. He is a wonderful man

[@ALPQZM654]

Best interview in a long time 👍

[@mightyV444]

This was a lot of fun to watch and listen to! 😍 Thank you all three! 😀👍 It reminded me of his 'Jonesy's Jukebox' days, just with him being the interviewee this time 😊 And happy birthday, Gary! 😀🙌💚🌈☀️🎂🎶🍻🎉

[@chrissavvides588]

Steve Jones is a legend, brilliant interview guys.

[@todds808]

His songs 🎵 defined freedom and indivuality and will inspire people for many more years to come.

[@BBlooger]

Steve Jones, legend!

[@bhamacuk]

Incredible interview, thoroughly engaging and entertaining. Retelling history direct from the source. Writing guitar hero on his amp, well he has become one!

[@JasonSmith-ot5pq]

This was a brilliant conversation 👏👏👏

[@markferrett700]

The Tone on Steve's guitar work on " bollocks" is phenomenal.....his solo album "fire and Gasoline " is a banger......a really underrated guitarist.

[@paularmstrong6435]

Top lad..went to the rock city gig..to hear Steve's guitar was one ticked off my bucket list..that music changed my life ❤

[@perrysar5954]

The album that changed EVERYTHING!!!..

[@BBlooger]

Brilliant interview! It's great when those interviewing have also been long term in the music business. Cheers!

[@Willsandbells]

This lad and his mates shaped my youth. God sent them. 🙏

[@tomrichardson6239]

Two guys in the same room responsible for two of my favourite albums NMTB and Parade, completely different sounds but every tune a masterpiece! Jolly good show

[@Itelkner]

Good show, that!

[@MrLespaul2000]

Loved him in the Pistols, great sound. Always thought of him as a rocker in a punk band. Bought his solo album Fire and Gasoline proper rock album.

[@geofftayloruk]

They never ever called themselves Punk Rock... just a Rock band...

[@beastieboy9286]

They’re rock n roll but the media has to name it something Paul cook has some swing in his playing.

[@Itelkner]

@@beastieboy9286 Yep, some swing and a great pocket.

[@user-John666]

Pistols were definitely a punk band , don't try to rewrite history. But they were 100% a rock n roll band.

[@Stonefreaky]

I. remember as young teenager I saw on telly an interviewer asked where the name album name. Never Mind the Bollocks, came from and Steve said he would chat with the elderly gents that would sell newspapers outside London tube station and he would make a comment on say the state of the country or the rain or something, and Steve said they would say to him in response "oh never mind the bollocks mate"in that great London accent. Still to this day I listen to the Pistols. Fuckin great band.

[@meecob]

Loved this. Sort of stuff I love hearing about. Well done lads

[@marcusrogers6917]

I could listen to steve jones all day..

[@middlehumanity]

Steve mate, you have positively influenced my life through your guitar for the last 40+ years... Cheers to you.

[@filled_soda]

No matter how many times I hear the Pistols' story, I love hearing it one more time

[@cph2004]

Your passion for music is very inspiring. It is nice to hear, like-minded people.

[@matthewmcintosh5612]

I could listen to Jonesy talk all day.

[@ChrisJohnson-lq5ix]

This was exactly what I'd hoped it would be. Well done, boys.

[@BenKrisfield]

Great Interview. Glad the new version of the Sex Pistols is working out. Crime not to be out there playing those magnificent songs.

[@stewartbalmer1515]

That s no the sex pistols it s members of the sex pistol with a singer

[@BenKrisfield]

@@stewartbalmer1515 If you say so.

[@blitztim6416]

Yes. Those guys should be playing music, with or without John.

[@gemspa73]

I'm so pleased to see that Steve's enjoying playing gigs again. Great interview.

[@mjh5437]

I`m not so sure he`s "enjoying playing gigs again",he looked bored rigid at the Generation Sox and Bush Hall and Forum gigs(so did Matlock at the latter gigs)..I think since he had a heart attack (or whatever "heart event" it was) he`s realised he`s at the age now where he will be confronted with a lot of astronomically high bills from American Surgeons/Doctors/Nurses/Hospitals to be paid...I think he will probably move back to England so he can get all those treatments for free on the NHS.

[@KINGMONKEY1989]

My favourite ever guitarist and a guitar hero for so many of us and some famous musicians. Noel Gallagher has said the same thing. Henwas his first guitar hero and has written songs like Fade Away which os a Punk Rock sounding song in which Noel went for Steves sound on that particular song. Great interview and to this day i put NMTB on and as soon as Holidays in the sun starts with the Jack boots marching and Steves guitar kicks in im lost in the sound of the band that changed everything and inspired some of the greatest bands who wanted to be in bands in the first place because of Steve annd the Pistols.

[@ANDREWMACCONNAL-MASON]

Superb interview!

[@knightlife1]

I love how chill Steve is 👍

[@wbjr6715]

I’ve been worried sick! Great to see Jonesy again

[@maryuline2585]

Loved Steve's book. One of the good music autobiographies out there. Highly recommend. Also miss Jonesy's Jukebox, which was a really good music interview show. Thank you Steve!!

[@missiontotransition641]

When i was 15, 16 learning electric guitar back in 78,79, there we all these guitar wizards like Eddie Van Halen, jeff beck, etc.etc. I found Never Mind the Bollock in the local library of all places. I said THIS IS WHAT I CAN IDENTIFY with!! My first band in 82 I got them to play 3 Pistols songs.

[@Itelkner]

Steve actually mentioned on his radio show being buddies with Eddie Van Halen. He said they used to meet up regularly in a local coffee shop when they both lived in Malibu and talk music. Eddie, for all of his incredible technique, was also a fan of very visceral and passionate guitar playing and would praise people like Kurt Cobain for their sound and passion. Eddie definitely dug what Steve did. The most intense tracks of Van Halen 1 and Never Mind The Bollocks have a similar fire to them.

[@admarhermans1]

Beautiful conversation! Thanx!

[@sasapopov5521]

The one and only and the greatest Steve Jones❤️

[@garydouglass9577]

Steve looking great. Love to see him playing with the line up now, soon. Class man.

[@sssssssssggggggg]

I bought and learned guitar purely on the back of Pretty Vacant. No music sheets, no KZbin back then, just by ear. Thanks Mr Jones, you influenced so many.

[@norryblue2136]

No John....no Pistols!

[@karllux-d6g]

But of course!!! ... Waddabout the other blokes? Cookie on drums, Jonesy on 6- strings and Glenn and Sid on bass? Wiv'out'em, no Pistols 2!

[@GuiGabois]

@@karllux-d6g Definitely no Pistols without the actual musicians

[@900BEN]

His radio show was excellent.

[@garyrigby21]

Hope they come to Liverpool next year

[@JingleFactory]

This is one of the most important and historically relevant shows you have done (and I've listened to EVERY ONE). I WISH you would not have cut it off at the 1 hour mark. Please let these historic versions of your show play out as long as they need to. I got the feeling Steve wanted to go further.

[@ingy2468]

That was a great interview. Well done to all 3 of you. That's entertainment.

[@filled_soda]

That clip of the guy saying that they'd be improved by "sudden death" is amazing 😂

[@pjofurey6239]

Jonesey.we owe him so much . This band made my outlook what it is . Jonesy- geeza

[@vincentrathbone26]

It's hard to watch your heroes grow old, but, as we all know he always was, is and forever will be an absolute legend.

[@markdoughty8780]

Brilliant interview with the incomparable Steve Jones - fascinating stuff. Thanks for uploading; liked it and subscribed.

[@trond-oien]

"If I had good parents I probably wouldn't be here now..." I felt that. That's it right there imo. You take what you've dealt and get on with it.

[@stuartwray6175]

What you've dealt?...what you've been dealt? You get on with it? After what you've been dealt has resulted in several decades of self destructive behaviour.

[@simonmatthews9771]

I went to the Forum show and it was brilliant and loads of fun.

[@apchsiri1156]

In a safe in the office of The Polk Theater in Lakeland, Florida, there is the microphone Elvis used in his famous kneeling on the edge of stage photograph from when he played the theater in August of 1956 when he was 21 years old. (I know this because my wife used to work there).

[@lesliepriestley2857]

🎙️ Steve might want to go and get that

[@simoncrawley7430]

Sorry, but this bloke is a serious fucking rocker. Great player, composer and animal. Fucking love him and his work.

[@mattdylan664]

I absolutely love Journeys to Glory and Diamond, after that SB became a bit to saccharine, lost their Stealing Cake To Eat The Moon magic, just my 2 cents, love seeing Jonesy back looking healthy , bless you all and thank you for so many wonderful memories and music that still makes me feel young even at 58

[@christown2827]

Spandau went sort of Soft Rock from 1984 and I really loved 'Through The Barricades' with it's Acoustic Guitars and a great Saxophone solo.

[@mattdylan664]

@@christown2827 maybe i should revisit True and Through The Barricades , its been over 20 years and if i'm being honest there is a lot of music i disliked in my teens that i love now that i'm older and see life through a different lens.

[@makka7890]

Fantastic interview guys. Everything you'd expect from Steve and more. If I had one complaint it's that it few past and felt too short. Continued good health Steve and more please.

[@GTyoutube]

Brilliant guitarist, totally underated.

[@iamyourfuture808]

how exactly is he underrated?

[@MrOctober44]

Big fan of Steve/the Pistils, but underated?! 😂

[@DANCEGARAGEPUNK]

@@iamyourfuture808 The hardest thing for a guitarist is to play without ego / wank & the pistols achieved that !!!

[@Itelkner]

@@DANCEGARAGEPUNK Because, like Paul Kossoff, Peter Green, and Angus & Malcolm Young, Steve only plays tasty things that go right into the soul and gut. No need to water it down and bury it with any shred/wank when you've got such awesome fills that communicate on such a visceral level. That and the fact that he's got the tightest, most massive-sounding, in-the-pocket rhythmic flow of anyone. And that perfect tone that reaches right through you

[@karlos359]

Saw Gen Sex at The Lucca Summer Festival last year, 2023, great night, well for me. Not sure my wife and friends with us were as happy but then you needed to be there at the very beginning I guess. Thanks guys oh and thanks for Saucers too guys, saw you at the same Festival out there in Lucca. Such a great venue. Simple Minds booked for next year so far.

[@getheroutofthetruck]

Steve sounds more alert here than he has in decades.

[@fisherrich100]

Class guitarist, one of the best. Key member of the Sex Pistols. Quality interview that.

[@tkasg]

Great interview. Thanks guys.

[@mikaellofgren7]

Love you Steve.

[@jamieknievel]

Always good to hear Steve

[@doctorskull8197]

Fantastic interview ‼️🎸🎼🔥😍

[@sputnikwar]

I have got the next amp he bought after the GUITAR HERO one. He wrote THE BOSS on this one. I bought it off Neal from S S Sputnik. It’s amazing. Got full provenance. Even the flight case has an amazing history.

[@newcybrown6352]

Another Fender ?

[@Itelkner]

Gauss speakers in that one?

[@newcybrown6352]

Would you sell it ?

[@nainoswad2725]

Captivating.... I was at that Guildhall court case in Nottingham and wandered down to the Victoria Hotel afterwards, but missed the pre-case booze up at the Albany.... Very humble geezer.... many "stars" ought to cop this video..... Ta....

[@markwalker5948]

what a guy! thank you fellas.

[@paulthew2]

Great interview, really enjoyed it.

[@deletebilderberg]

This is fantastic.

[@derekglasspool946]

Loved this guys - Jonesy is brilliant.

[@eumostwanted]

Absolutely awesome!! X