Steve Jones, the Sex Pistols’ lead guitarist during the band’s peak in the 1970s, has admitted that he is sick of the band’s music and no longer listens to it.
The topic first came up in an interview with The Telegraph last week. Here’s what Jones shockingly admitted:
“I never really listen to the Pistols’ music anymore. I’m fucking tired of it, to be honest with you. I’d rather listen to Steely Dan.”
The 66-year-old English musician and radio broadcaster added that he would rather listen to veteran jazz-fusion band, Steely Dan.
He went so far as to remark that he doesn’t care much for punk rock these days while confirming his affection for the US jazz rockers in an interview with The Associated Press regarding the re-release of the 1977 Sex Pistols’ smash ‘God Save the Queen’ for Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.
Here’s what Jones said:
“I don’t particularly listen to punk rock anymore. My musical tastes have changed a lot over the years, you know, and I’m 66 years old. I’m not a kid anymore. I think it would be a bit silly if I was still flying that flag… I like Steely Dan. Is that bad?”
Jones spoke with Rolling Stone in 2017 about his new book, Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, which was released 40 years after the Sex Pistols released Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols.
He described the punk band’s only album as “bizarre,” given the circumstances surrounding its creation. Even though the band had just recently learned their instruments when they recorded Never Mind the Bollocks, they managed to create these incredible songs.
Jones continued:
“It’s an album that was so bizarre for these 19, 20-year-olds to do in the structure of the songs. It’s just one of them classic albums, if you will. I’m not pumping myself up. But it’s a bizarre record.
“We didn’t go for like, ‘We need to write a hit song for the record company.’ There was none of that. But there’s a lot of catchy bits in some of the songs. I don’t know. It’s just a real weird album. When I do listen to it, I love it.
“I do like the sound of it. The highlight of my Sex Pistols career was recording the album. That’s when I had the most fun and could be the most creative.
“And Chris Thomas allowed me to be creative and Bill Price to get the best out of me, ’cause literally I’d only been playing a year. And I don’t know. It’s quite extraordinary it turned out the way it did.”