Steve Jones

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Stephen Philip Jones (born 3 September 1955) is an English rock guitarist, singer, actor, and radio DJ best known as a guitarist with the Sex Pistols.

Paul Cook, a former bandmate, formed The Professionals after the Sex Pistols' dissolution.

He has also released two solo albums and performed with Johnny Thunders, Iggy Pop, Bob Dylan, and Thin Lizzy.

He formed the short-lived supergroup Neurotic Outsiders with Guns N' Roses and Duran Duran Duran in 1995.

Jones was ranked in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in a list.

Early life

Jones was born in Shepherd's Bush, London, where he grew up with his teenage mother, who worked as a hairdresser, and his grandparents. He migrated from Benbow Road in Shepherd's Bush to Nine Elms in Battersea, and then to Nine Elms. Don Jarvis, a professional boxer, left when he was two years old and his only child. He confessed to sexual assault by his stepfather, Ron Dambagella, which he blaming for his later sex addiction and inability to form lasting relationships. He admitted that he was illiterate until he was in his 40s. With 14 criminal convictions, he was the subject of a council-care order and spent a year in a rehabilitation center, which he said was more enjoyable than being at home. Jones has said that the Sex Pistols saved him from a life of crime.

Personal life

With the support of a 12-step program, Jones was able to quit heroin and alcohol around 1990. Jones is a vegetarian. Following a heart attack in 2019, Jones underwent heart surgery. He has never married and lives in Southern California, where he has appeared on several local radio stations as a disc jockey. Jones has been a fan of Chelsea F.C. and has adored the club since his youth.

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Career

Jones co-founded The Strand (named after a Roxy Music song) with Paul Cook and Wally Nightingale in the early 1970s, but the band later changed its name to The Swankers. Jones, Cook, Glen Matlock, and John Lydon appeared as the Sex Pistols after the band stopped Nightingale in August 1975.

Jones was shot as an extra in the film The Squeeze, which was released in 1977.

Jones started playing Gibson Les Paul electric guitars in his youth, primarily because he is a self-taught guitar player. He had only been playing for three months before his first Sex Pistols appearance, and has claimed that being under the influence of black beauties inspired him to concentrate on learning the instrument.

Malcolm McLaren's regular guitar was a cream-colored Gibson Les Paul Custom that he had purchased from Sylvain Sylvain of The New York Dolls. According to Sex Pistols' documentary The Filth and the Fury, he and some of his buddies posed as road-crew members, stealing amplifiers and other parts.

Bill Price, the engineer on Never Mind the Bollocks, called Jones one of the most tightest guitar players he has ever worked with; this is due to his "chuggy" playing in the studio, which needed overdubs to mask;

Jones, a bassist incompetence, appeared on "Bodies" and "Holidays in the Sun" on Never Mind the Bollocks (a part played by Vicious is included in the mix on "Bodies" and "Holidays in the Sun) on Never Mind the Bollocks, and Matlock appears on the other tracks as B-sides and B-sides, owing to bassist Sid Vicious's musical incompetence).

Jones swore at Grundy after being asked to do so by Bill Grundy on Thames Television's local news Today programme on December 1, 1976, contributing to the band's notoriety.

Jones and drummer Paul Cook co-founded the Professionals after the Sex Pistols broke up in 1978. They released four singles, a self-titled album that was shelved until 1990, and I Didn't See It Coming in November 1981. After band members Paul Cook, Paul Myers, and Ray McVeigh were injured in a car accident, the band's American tour to promote the album was cut short. Although the professionals returned to America in 1982 after recovering, Jones' and Myers' drug abuses hampered the band's prospects. They turned down an opening spot on the tour for The Clash and then broke up.

Jones was a member of Chequered Past (led by Michael Des Barres) from 1982 to 1985. In 1984, they released a self-titled album. Jones appeared on Johnny Thunders' solo album So Alone, with Sex Pistols bandmate Paul Cook. Following the departure of two of their original members, Siouxsie and the Banshees took a long time to engage Jones. Early 1980s rehearsals, and Jones produced the guitars on three tracks of the album Kaleidoscope. The experience was nothing more than a simple recording session.

Jones performed with Thin Lizzy, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, Kraut, Adam Ant, Robert Blake, Iggy Pop, Andy Taylor, the Dano Jones Band, Megadeth, Neurotic Outsiders, and started as a singer in the 1980s and early 1990s. "Mercy," a Miami Vice episode titled "Stone's War," was featured on the Miami Vice II soundtrack album and in the 1988 film Homeboy. "Pleasure and Pain," also from Mercy, was included in Jones' 1985 film Sid and Nancy, a biopic of Sex Pistols bandmate Sid Vicious. Jones' second solo album, Fire and Gasoline, featured Jones on guitar and vocals, Terry Nails on bass, and drummer Mickey Curry. Jones appeared in an episode of Roseanne's television sitcom. He had appeared in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle before as a private detective, as well as appearing in the 1981 film Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains.

A project called Fantasy 7 (also known as F7) was launched in 1992 and is currently unveiled. They toured locally in Los Angeles and a few shows in South America starring singer Mark McCoy. Jones performed guitar on the band P's self-titled and only album, which also included Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers and actor Johnny Depp.

Jones formed Neurotic Outsiders, a tribute band to Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum on guitar and vocals, former Guns N' Roses members Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum on rhythm guitar and drums, and Duran Duran's John Taylor on bass. In 1996, they released a self-titled album. Amanda Roots of Fluffy, who accompanied the Outsiders on tour, said, "I call him Uncle Steve." "I've got uncles that look exactly like him, East End gangsters."

He toured with Andy Taylor, Duran Duran's guitarist, while touring with the Power Station in the 1990s. And for The Great Milenko, an album by Insane Clown Posse, recorded guitar tracks in 1996. Jones released the Los Angeles-based Buckcherry and American Pearl in 1999 and 2000, respectively.

He appeared in the Sex Pistols reunion concerts and now lives in Los Angeles. He has since been active in session work, as well as playing guitar on Lisa Marie Presley's 2005 album, Now What. Jones played lead guitar on two tracks. "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow," the Ramones tribute album We're a Happy Family's, but it only became a hidden track on Now What.

For the 30th anniversary of Never Mind the Bollocks, the Sex Pistols, including Jones, appeared in a performance at the Brixton Academy on November 8, 2007. Four more gigs were scheduled for the following days, bringing total five gigs in total. On November 12th, a further gig in Brixton was followed by one at Manchester's MEN Arena on November 17th. The Glasgow S.E.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C. Everything That Happens Today is a compilation of four songs performed by David Byrne and Brian Eno in 2008.

Jones, who was recently affiliated with Hollywood United F.C., an American amateur soccer team based in Los Angeles, was mainly made up of celebrities and former professional footballers. The Sex Pistols appeared on the Isle of Wight Festival in Sweden as the headlining act on Saturday night's Peace & Love Festival and the Live at Loch Lomond Festival in Scotland.

Jones made a cameo appearance on Portlandia's second-season finale, "Brunch Village," which aired on March 9, 2012. Jones appeared in a sketch playing himself as Prince Charles (played by Craig Ferguson), as well as playing guitar on a page of Ninian Hawick's "Scottish Rite Temple Stomp" in a cold open to a week of show shot in Scotland in May 2012. During a version of Dead Man Fall's "Bang Your Drum," he appeared on Ferguson's last show in December 2014.

Jones was ranked 97th in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2006. Jones took over the house band on Russell Brand's FX television show Brand X with Russell Brand in 2013. He played solo on the electric guitar. Jones appeared in "Krull" in Showtime television series Californication's sixth and seventh seasons, as the road manager of Tim Minchin's character Atticus Fetch, and he starred in 2013.

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