Rehearsals took place in early 1980, and Jones recorded the guitars parts on three songs of the album Kaleidoscope. Siouxsie and the Banshees thought for a while to engage Jones after the departure of two of their original members. Jones performed alongside Sex Pistols bandmate Paul Cook on Johnny Thunders's solo album So Alone. They released a self-titled album in 1984. Jones was also a member of Chequered Past (led by Michael Des Barres) from 1982 to 1985. They declined an opening spot offer on tour for The Clash, and broke up. While The Professionals did return to America in the Spring of 1982 after recovery, Jones (and Myers') drug problems further hampered the band's prospects. The band's American tour to promote the album was cut short when band members Paul Cook, Paul Myers, and Ray McVeigh were injured in a car accident.
They released four singles, recorded a self-titled LP that was shelved until 1990, and released I Didn't See It Coming in November 1981. When the Sex Pistols were interviewed by Bill Grundy on the Today show on 1 December 1976, Jones openly swore at Grundy after being goaded to do so, causing much controversy and elevating the band's profile.Īfter the Sex Pistols broke up in 1978, Jones and drummer Paul Cook co-founded The Professionals. Jones became well known among fans for his "hanky on the head", and his perm.
ĭue to the inability of Sid Vicious to perform to a satisfactory standard in the studio Jones also played the bass guitar parts on Never Mind the Bollocks, the sole exception being "Anarchy in the UK", recorded whilst Glen Matlock was still in the band.Ĭurrently Jones also uses Hamer Sunburst double-cut guitars, and prefers the White Les Paul Custom as his primary guitar, as stated in the Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock Sex Pistols video. According to Filth and the Fury, he had also stolen equipment from a truck parked behind the Hammersmith Odeon where David Bowie was playing, when he and his fellow Sex Pistols members posed as road crew members, stealing amplifiers and other equipment.īill Price, the engineer on Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols called Jones one of the tightest guitar players he has ever worked with, this is due to his "chuggy" playing in the studio as Price had described it with very little sustain and echo, which required overdubs to hide. His usual guitar was a cream coloured Gibson Les Paul Custom which Malcolm McLaren had acquired from Sylvain Sylvain of the New York Dolls. He had allegedly only been playing for three months before his first Sex Pistols gig, and has said that practicing under the influence of black beauties helped him focus well on learning the instrument. Jones is a self-taught guitar player, primarily playing Gibson Les Paul electric guitars in his early years. In 1975, Jones went on to co-found Sex Pistols with Paul Cook, Glen Matlock, and later, John Lydon. After dropping Wally Nightingale in the mid 1970s, the band was known as The Swankers. The Strand were a precursor to the Sex Pistols, and it's where Jones first learned to play guitar. Jones co-founded The Strand (named after a Roxy Music song) with Paul Cook and Wally Nightingale in the early 1970s.
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