“I was looking at my watch thinking, ‘I’m so miserable doing this.’ That was the last time we did anything with the original lineup”: Steve Jones on why Frank Carter gave the Sex Pistols a new lease on life – and where things stand with John Lydon
Janelle Borg
created: Aug. 5, 2025, 3:42 p.m. | updated: Aug. 10, 2025, 11:33 p.m.
Steve Jones may have joined his old-guard bandmates – bassist Glen Matlock and drummer Paul Cook – on tour with the repackaged Sex Pistols alongside Frank Carter, the vocalist of Gallows and Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes.
“For the first time in a long time, I’m really enjoying doing Pistols songs again,” Jones tells Guitar World, explaining that this wasn't the case when the Pistols reunited with Lydon in 1996, and in the aughts.
I was looking at my watch after two songs, thinking, ‘I’m so fucking miserable doing this.’ That was the last time we did anything with the original lineup.
I’m 70, so I’m definitely not jumping into the crowd.
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