Steve Jones: “Punk is not going to be starting a band to sell steals”

At the end of 70 years, Steve Jones (Shepherd's Bush, London, 1955) never tires of playing once and again the songs that will make him famous with the Sex Pistols, which he said he will bring to the Cruïlla festival in Barcelona with the group's other original members, drummer Paul Cook and bassist Glen Matlock – substituting for his son. day pel malaguanyat Sid Vicious–, but with Frank Carter as a singer in songs by John Lydon. May the anti-system proclamations of some songs become a rock machine for all ages remain. Jones kindly answers your questions via videoconference and is not asking if Barcelona is affected by the heat wave and if it faces dry weather, but he remembers the tragic fires that anyone passing will have to Los Angeles, where he saw a pile of years.

It will be inevitable that the public will compare Frank Carter with John Lydon...

Frank is great. Tea 40 years, is much younger than us and provides much energy. He sings the songs brilliantly and is a great teacher of ceremonies, he loves to play among the public and in the moshpits.. . The last time I'm going to play with John will be 2008, and it won't be fun, while everyone is passing and it's not that bad at all. The entire band is in full gear, and there is no time to deal with this stage of the part.

I guess I didn't keep a relationship with Lydon...

No, actually, I haven't spoken since 2008, the last song we're going to play together, when we're going to perform in the Basque Country (they're going to participate in the Azkena festival).

She keeps criticizing them.

What a farem. I have no animosity towards John. Ens ho vam passar molt bé quan érem joves and tothom tea dret a la seva opined. The fact that diu is predictable, of course, I do not expect anything more than that you say something different than to criticize us. The only thing that has to life is experience, and I don't think the mate who was 19 years old. Cal follow endavant i créixer. D'això life goes, you can't stay the same, and only I can take care of myself, I can't be thinking about others.

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Are you still angry about when the Sex Pistols are going to start?

Ara is more interested in spending time and celebrating the album Never Mind the Bollocks, which has been going on for 50 years. It's nothing more than an escape to watch for an hour and a half, a time during which they don't have to worry about all the other sundays that happen, something that I think is very necessary for mateix.

The vital angoixa that he had always had is very present...

Yes, but history has always had despair, in every generation, and now it is not new. The only thing you can do for mateix is ​​to try to make it happen, that's my only concern. Let us have fun, and this is the one who is passing.

Those dozen songs have become great hits...

They are engaging songs, it is certain, but that was not the plan, they simply went there, and they liked them. Most of them are going to write before they have a recording contract. No vam fer gaires cançons, but those that vam fer are great.

Isn't it tiring to play the mateixes cançons so many times afterwards?

To be honest, in reality I'm not going to touch air either. Originally there were no concerts and we were not going to separate flights. Later, the tour and reunion of 1996 began, with some 70 concerts, and then some more concerts. We haven't played so much, we're not like the Rolling Stones, who make it easy for them to play the mateixes songs. That's why it's fun to touch them.

Malgrat l'edat, the band is in a good moment.

So, I realized that in September I will be 70 years old, soc a old Xaruc.

Seva music doesn't need ultra-fast solos, it's more rhythm and attitude, oi?

Well, I could fer shredding or any of these merdes if I tried, but I don't like it, I don't understand, just in the same way I don't want to be worth remembering. It's not the one I like, I like guitarists like Mick Ronson – who knows everything about having played with David Bowie – or Paul Kossoff – guitarist of Free –, especially people who have a good rhythm, it's the only one that interests me. De fet, no assajo mai.

Bid on the stage, play and is there?

Yes, it is here, and it is content with what you do. I don't have great technical talent, but I have good feeling .

Is this connected to current music? What escort?

I like many different groups, but the truth is that I don't play hard music, just plain old, and I like groups like Arctic Monkeys. Escort some instrumental music or simply soft music to relax me, like the reggae of the old school. When there was a radio program escorting a lot of new music because I wanted to discover new groups, but now no. Face I love music, but I don't listen to punk or metal or beef, I'm not interested. The truth is that music affects people too, and it is not known that it is pleasing to those who please young people.

The relationship with John Lydon “I haven't spoken since 2008, when we are going to play together for the last time, in the Basque Country”

After any tour, is there any possibility of recording new songs?

Let's focus on these concerts, so they stay for a few more. After seeing on som, i potser... no se sap mai. We may be able to write something, but it's just for the moment that we are passing through.

For many people, punk is going to be little more than an aesthetic fashion.

We're not a boy band , this is a downer. We were a group of debò, and by chance we had Malcolm McLaren and the new lady, Vivienne Westwood, as designers for her. From the band's point of view, it is clear that it is not a band of stolen goods. La Vivienne guanyava diners venent steal, but all the movement was fashion, image and songs. It was all folded, not just one thing in particular, with Jamie Reid and the illustrations. It was a combination of elements, but it was not designed to set up a gang and steal. All això are bestieses. We are a band of truth.

I hi ha gent que encara els ho retreu...

Well, there are a lot of people who are unhappy with the Internet and they like to spread shit. More the same. It is not the mateix to talk that fer, and when the people see to veure'ns that they passen molt bé, and we also notice them, and I am happy that the fans are stiguin passant bé, it is the only one that matters. If someone says something on the internet that is Romance, I won't say it again. Unfortunately, there are many people who have only seen the computer and have not even seen it before. It's a bogey. But now, now I like Instagram, there's only one compte... everything that happens is a waste of time, and since you've been there for an hour looking at who knows what, you don't feel like it.

It continues with the guitars and the guitar amplifiers, oi? Digital technology is not useful...

Exactly. I play with a white Gibson Les Paul and can use Marshall amplifiers, a pair of pedals, not gaires. In fact, there are only two guitars on tour, no more than 50, no time for these collonades, it's massively complicated. Furthermore, I wouldn't even know how to start with the digital pedals, you could use some effects pedals, wah-wah, a phaser and distortion, but nothing has happened.