Steve Jones

Steve Jones is a rock guitarist known for being the guitarist with the Sex Pistols.  After the break up of the Sex Pistols he had a solo career and released two solo albums. Jones was ranked in Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

He has also worked with the likes of Johnny Thunders, Iggy Pop, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, Megadeth, Bob Dylan and Thin Lizzy - in 1995 he formed a short lived supergroup Neurotic Outsiders with members of Guns N' Roses and Duran Duran.

His usual guitar was a cream coloured Gibson Les Paul (featuring Pin-up Girl stickers) which Malcolm McLaren had acquired from Sylvain Sylvain of the New York Dolls.

In '77 there was no internet, there was no Twitter or Facebook and I think that, without being some old git who hates anything new, people's attention spans are too short. Back then you had Top of the Pops and Melody Maker, and you had to make the effort to go to a show so that you absorbed the culture of music.

It's not everyday you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.

We didn't have lawyers and accountants. No one was watching out for our money. We'd go to the office and get money and go on our way. I was 19-20 years old then. I was stupid. I didn't know any better. We weren't getting our fare share of the money. That happens to young musicians all the time. It makes me mad when I think how stupid we were.

I'm pretty much an isolated person. I'd rather stay home and play video games. I can't get enough of Call of Duty. I'm the oldest guy who plays on PlayStation.

I never read. I've never read one book... I just can't do it. Something's wrong with me. I have what they now call ADD, like I'll read and all of a sudden I'll be thinking about shopping... I'm not there. I drift off. I get so crazy, so I don't even bother.

I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?

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