Posted on 06/06/2022 12:27:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Former Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones is currently promoting Pistol, the new FX series following the story of his former punk band. However, in two recent interviews, the guitarist has revealed that he doesn’t listen to his old music much these days. He would much sooner find himself listening to Steely Dan than any 1970s punk rock.
The topic first came up in an interview with The Telegraph last week. “I never really listen to the Pistols’ music anymore,” Jones admitted. “I’m xxxx tired of it, to be honest with you. I’d rather listen to Steely Dan.”
It will come as something of a shock for some of Jones’ fans that his tastes have migrated to jazz-rock, a contemporary taste of the ‘70s that would have made him a pariah of the punk scene back in the day.
Speaking with The Associated Press about the re-release of the 1977 Sex Pistols’ hit ‘God Save the Queen’ for Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, he went so far as to say that he doesn’t care much for punk rock at all these days while reaffirming his love for the US jazz rockers.
“I don’t particularly listen to punk rock anymore,” Jones said. “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?”
All six episodes of Pistol, which were adapted from Jones’ 2017 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, are available for streaming now via Hulu. Despite the show’s dedication to factual accuracy, former frontman John Lydon is decidedly not a fan.
It is understood that Lydon’s disdain for Danny Boyle’s Pistol began when he realised he wasn’t receiving any royalties for the show. He called the decision not to cut him in “The most disrespectful xxxx I’ve ever had to endure. I mean, they went to the point to hire an actor to play me, but what’s the actor working on?” he said. “Certainly not my character. It can’t go anywhere else [but court].”
It’s on the time internet. It must be true.
Steely Dan was the anti-punk band. They were all about high production quality and great sound. They still had some sneakily subversive and cynical lyrics.
The British version of Steely Dan was Supertramp. Well, sort of.
I admit to still putting on Superchunk’s “No Pocky for Kitty” when cleaning the house…
Billy Idol had Steve on his Sirius show over the winter, and Schteve was on and on about how much he 'roiked' The Killers and these punk-revival bands.
Then he tried to embarrass Billy with a fake anecdote about how Billy came to have the shocking, straight-up blond hair. Idol shot him down with the exact story: how his girlfriends had aimed for blue, and ended up buying "platinum blue" -- girlfriends WHO HAD BEEN RECOMMENDED TO BILLY BY STEVE -- and had been spiking their hair a la Vivienne Westwood.
And to square the circle, Steve's “Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol” has led to Danny Boyle's "Pistol" on FX/Hulu/Disney, which has been boring as fooking hell...
“Not as bad as liking Kenny G. or Yanni or the Dave Matthews band.”
Kenny is a scratch golfer who generates lots of bucks for charities. I’m told Frank Beard can hold his own on the links as well.
Yeah, I’ve seen him play at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am a couple times. Guy can play golf.
Also saw him in L.A. (back when his last name was still Gorelick) with the Jeff Lorber Fusion Band. Good (albeit limited) instrumentalist. Fine for that style. But he realized commercial success was all but impossible in that genre, and decided to rebrand himself “G” and create his own style — “adult contemporary” or “smooth” or whatever. Not my thing at all obviously, but he sure hit the right chord with a mass audience — middle aged women needing to de-stress.
Jazz musicians criticized him for selling out, but I’m guessing most of it was out of envy — he may be the richest (formerly) jazz musician ever.
Once you grow up, the Rebel Without a Clue crap is just noise.
Great. Now I have to look that up.
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