and on the page, Jones doesn’t have a partic- ular standout moment. “Not really, I mean, playing with Bob Dylan was fun,’ he says. “I wish I could have played with Elvis Presley. That would have been fun.” Elvis was only part of the American ap- peal for Jones. He found Los Angeles was the warm opposite of the environment that made him famous. “All right, when I came from England, and I was a mess, L.A. to me was like, I’ve never experienced anything like it with the sunshine and the ocean, and the wide open spaces and the glamour of Holly- wood,” he says. “And it was like going to some other planet. It was, you know, com- ing from where I came from — dingy, rainy, damp, London at the time — it was like, oh man, this is amazing. I got to move here.” The City of Angels has certainly lived up to his expectations. (“I’ve been here 36 years,” Jones says. “If it hadn’t, I don’t know what I’m doing here.”) Looking back now, especially through a closer view at McLaren and Westwood, it seems as though there was a lucid, con- scious strategy and certainty that the Sex Pistols were going to be massively influen- tial, as the originators of more than a music genre, but the soundtrack to a movement that, as Jones noted, comprised fashion and philosophy. But Jones just wanted to play guitar and have some fun. “We were all very young, and we were THE DALLAS OBSERVER RESTAURANT GUIDE Your Best Resource for Dining, Takeout, & Delivery Recommendations having a great time, and you didn’t live for the future, you lived in the moment,” he says, “when you’re 19, 20 years old, and it was a great time to be alive and it was amazing. It really was, looking back on it. Yeah, you forget when you’re that young … you’re fearless when you’re that young. You don’t know shit but you also feel … I think rock and roll is a young man’s game, per- sonally I don’t want to be playing at my age at 66. Whenever I see bands … old … I think they look kind of stupid.” Then again, Steely Dan is still touring. “That’s different,” Jones says, raising the Restaurateurs - You can now communicate directly with staff to request updates! dallasobserver.com/guide/ dallas-restaurants SCAN HERE OR VISIT point that Steely Dan is far more mellow. “I mean the guy, [singer Donald] Fagen, sits down on the piano. He’s not jumping around like a lunatic.” Jones was an executive producer on Pis- tol, but he says he wasn’t nit-picky about de- tails such as casting. “I let it all go, man,” he says. “I’m a big be- liever of, you know, staying out of the pro- cess, especially when you got someone like Danny Boyle at the helm, you know.” The lethal romance between Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen has become its own legend, and even her unsolved death by stabbing and Vicious’ fatal overdose soon after have not detracted from the group’s legacy. Jones never worried that it would. “No, no. It is what it is, and Sid was in the band, Nancy came along, it was a dark cloud,” he says. “It was all part of it, it was the truth. It’s not like we’re making stuff up. I wasn’t a fan of him when he started doing heroin and that whole situation, plus he couldn’t play — he looked great, and it’s just one of them things, you know?” PROFESSIONAL TATTOO SUPPLY FOR PROS ONLY Call for your appointment or design commissions today! HAND BUILT NOT BOUGHT. COME ON DOWN! FRANKLINS TATTOO AND SUPPLY 469-904-2665 • 4910 COLUMBIA AVE, DALLAS, TX 75214 BEST KRATOM IN TEXAS! WE CARRY CBD! CURRENT STORE HOURS: MON-THUR 10AM - 10PM FRI & SAT 10Am - 11pm • SUN 12pm - 10pm THE BEST SELECTION & PRICES OF SMOKING ACCESSORIES AND MORE IN DFW! puffnstuffsmokeshop.com 23 dallasobserver.com CLASSIFIED | MUSIC | DISH | CULTURE | UNFAIR PARK | CONTENTS DALLAS OBSERVER JULY 14–20, 2022 WE ARE OPEN!
