Jonesy is such an underrated player. The dude just exudes rock and roll. The tone, the swagger, the unpretentious grab you by the ears tone, the rock solid riffage. And he got great! Every time he came back around he was better. He and Malcolm Young are two of my absolute heroes for those reasons.
@@evilsidsmonkey I suggest you look at mid seventies footage (videos and photos) of the pistols, he played numerous guitars. The white Les Paul is iconic, but it wasn’t played that much.
This is really well done. And Steve Jones's tone has always grabbed me by the ears and demanded my full attention! You've done a fine job. Good to see Stave gets proper recognition these days. It doesn't have to be complicated to kick ass! Balls and attitude!
I saw them at the Winterland last show. Steve jones played, killed it! I went out 2 days later and bought a LP Jr what I could afford. I was a kid and my older brother worked for the promoter BGP taking pictures....
Dagan, you've nailed that tone, sound, and feel better than any vid I've seen, apart from Steve himself. I hope you do a separate breakdown video for each Pistols track.
I was lucky enough my wife about 20 odd years ago won on EBay a white Les Paul signed dated and authenticated by Steve Jones dated from their first comeback tour in Finsbury Park in 1996, I believe it was originally offered as a prize in one of the UK guitar mags. Sadly it’s not a Custom just a Studio with gold hardware but it has turned that lovely cream yellow colour. I’d wanted a Gibson Les Paul since I was in my early teens in the late 70s always way beyond my price range so was well thrilled to get this particular Les Paul
@@BeesWaxMinder I didn't win the competition but a few years later the guitar was up for sale on Ebay so my wife bought it for me. I'd wanted a Gibson Les Paul for about 15 years always remember drooling over them in Tin Pan Alley and various guitar shops up London always out of my price range though
@@TheFairway8 that was good of her I love Denmark Street I remember entering that competition …I’m pretty sure it was in guitarist magazine (if it wasn’t it was in “guitar“)
Damn!! Holy damn!! I watched half way through and had to go straight to my bedroom and plug into my Marshall with the 4x12 with my Epiphone Sheraton 2009 and damn I loved every minute playing those power chord riffs!! I can see how much Steve jones inspired many punk/pop punk guitarists… Les Paul Custom was always my dream guitar growing up in alpine white and a Marshall.. Dude thank you for inspiring me to play because I’ve been down in a rut for a few weeks and watching you has brought me back!!
Thank you, THANK YOU, T H A N K Y O U!!! for making this video. I had so much rebellious anger as a teenager during the 80's, I probably would have gone to prison had I not discovered the Pistols and through them a way to express myself productively. Started my own punk band just to play the Pistols and the Furs. I only did vocals then, but I'm learning guitar now. I will be spending a lot of time with this video to learn from you, Dagan. What a wonderful contribution to UA-cam. Your enthusiasm is contagious. Thanks again!
Dude when you put silly thing in the intro I was thrilled 😂 I love the Sex Pistols and Steve Jones is one of my favorite guitarists. His story and how he came to play guitar is the reason why I started learning in the first place. And he came up with some pretty bad ass riffs and I love his little fill ins on the album
Wow - great timing; I learnt God save the Queen specifically for the jubilee, but that tone you got in such a simple ‘clean’ way - it’s stunning. Utterly inspiring video, I “must try harder”
Nice one, Dagan!! I turned 10 in 1977 and the Sex Pistols, the Buzzcocks and the Clash ruled my world!! My Dad worked at a TV/Radio station at the time and the older DJ's couldn't stand Punk so I was the inheritor of all that distorted goodness!! Soon Siouxsie and the Banshees entered my collection which by the time I was 13 in 1980 included Bauhaus, XTC and the Cure and well I guess you can see the trajectory I was on. Thanks again Mate, that was Fantastic!!
Dagan I'm from that era. Hard core punk 77. You've nailed it my son. Satellite....my favourite. PS the studio twin he used was moded For more mids. Dont ask me how. The Marshall's he used at Brixton were the CULT,S. and modified. Whilst owned by the Cult. He tuned down.... DONT FORGET THE PROFESSIONALS.. Just another dream.. 123 Action man... White light.. Ect.. Last word.. Dimond Head. Was formed After watching The pistols on tv.....what a legacy.
Nailed it. I've been a Sex Pistols fanatic for 45 years and it's always been mainly about Steve's guitar for me. I'm primarily a bass player but I play some guitar too and the only guy I've ever tried to properly get right is Steve Jones. I've picked up tips and stuff over the years, more recently and watching UA-cam stuff (lots of geezers out there in UA-cam land doing instructional vids and GETTING IT WRONG!) and what you have correctly realised is that what Steve lacked in technical ability he more than made up for in feel. That guy was just obviously in love with the noise he was making! So thanks for the video dude, I've picked up a few more tips from it, mainly with the Anarchy solo which I nearly got right but now, watching you, I reckon I can nail it.
It should be said that while I'm not from the UK, I always watch your videos. Dagan always looks like he's having a blast while so many people making videos look like they are bored out of their mind. You all at PMT need to make sure another company doesn't try to gobble him up.
@@corneliuscrewe677 Troublemaker still my favorite. Reminds me of a GF I had at that time, she was with me at his Palladium NY Eve show after the album came out haha.
You've pretty much nailed the sound mate! Brilliant review as always! I have the same white Epiphone LP custom and agree it's a superb looking and playing guitar, actually I prefer it to my Gibson LP Standard 120th Anniversary model.
There was a Bigsby on the LPC originally. It was removed & the one sticker covered the holes. There are picks of Syl playing it before Malcom got it & gave it to Steve. Steve had a sunburst LPC w/ a Bigsby & he hated it. But anyway. Nice playing sounds cool. During the '96 tour he was using the JCM 800's & a Danelectro Daddy 'O' for a Boost. Great pedal! Thanks for the post!!
The finest thing Steve did post Sex Pistol’s was the Neurotic Outsiders with Duff Mckagan, Matt Sorum and John Taylor from Duran Duran in my opinion. Well worth checking out! It definitely has a Pistols/Professionals vibe about it. Sadly like the Pistols he only made one proper album.
Hi from downunder, I was a punk in the 80s and a huge Pistols fan. I died my hair like Sids, amongst others but I heard that Steve Jones 'nicked' the Les Paul from a Bob Marley gig and striped it and put the pin up girls on it to help disguise it. The bass work was already done by Glenn Matlock before Sid joined the band. I was a big Sid fan but he was no musician. 🧷 🤘
Awesome! Yeah there’s pictures of Syl Sylvain in the New York Dolls with the guitar before the Pistols, when Malcolm McLaren used to manage them, there’s a lot of mystery around it but that’s the definitive history! Haha. Also the producers have confirmed that it was all Jonesy on bass, Glen helped write a few songs though. 👌
Actually most of the bass was re-recorded by Steve. If you listen to “Spunk”, the demo album released before Bollocks, the bass playing is way more busy (awesome actually), and That was Matlock
Thank u for taking the time to respond to my comments. The story I heard about his Les Paul sounds like Steve, taking the piss. Like your videos too, cheers. 🤘
Saw them on the Filthy Lucre Tour in '96 in Dallas. They were beyond great. Steve played what I'm sure was a copy of the pin-up girls Custom and a blue sparkle LP Custom. Also saw him well before play a New Years Eve show in LA at the Palladium in '89 after Fire and Gasoline came out, he played the pin-up girls Custom. He had really long hair but I think he was clean by then and again was great. I still have a '77 white (yellowed) LP Custom I bought used many years ago, Jones is the reason I bought it. I have never owned a Fender but I should get a Twin Reverb. I've thought about it before because of Bollocks (I thought it was stolen at a Faces show) and hearing you play the songs through one it's clearly the best sound. Great video. Never knew you were such a huge Pistols fan.
I was still doing Jimi Hendrix meets Michael Schenker solo's when Sex Pistols dropped their album. I learned it by heart immediately, started a punkband with some guys, most of our songs were Sex Pistols and Damned covers lol, then I was asked to join the only Dutch punkband that had a record deal, we recorded some great songs and did a lot of great gigs at a lot of great places, I barely played a solo for at least 1-2 years, not until I bought a 1975 Gibson Flying V in '79, it totally pissed off the singer so I quit the band. Then I heard Van Halen 1 and started learning new riffs and solo's again, man those were crazy days!!! Ps: Dagan if ya wanna talk ADHD, i'm all ears 🤣😂🤣
1977 ... The queens silver jubilee was a great time indeed. It was also the year Elvis (supposedly) died ,and the year I moved from harmonica to guitar. Peeps we're celebrating in the streets ,and coming together in a huge celebration, then came thatcher ,and messed it all up. I got into punk in 1976/77 ,and haven't looked back since. I was there ,and still am. I also have the new York dolls first album too m8 ,not to mention all the pistols records too ,even though they became everything they were against... (commercialism etc). So thanx for dragging up memories. Being a Geordie ,You need to check the toy dolls ,and try sum of olgas solos m8. Sum of them are tricky ,like we quit the cavalry !!!. Anyhoo ,I'm glad you hit a subject close to my heart ,and fondest regards to all back home in uk. (I moved to usa 21 years ago).
Dagan there's a few vids on UA-cam that attempt Jonesie's tone. A couple of 'em come close. But jeez mate you NAILED it. I salute you sir! And all your train spotter info is spot on. Just one small correction - the custom WAS used on NMTB. There is actually an interview with Steve that explains just Bodies and EMI had the black beauty and he can still tell the slight tonal difference between it and the custom, which was used on all the other tracks.
if i had seen this 10, 20, 30 , 40 years ago , i would have creamed myself. I was 16 in 1980 when i found the album NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS in the city library in Cedar Rapids Iowa. It changed my life then. Changed my taste in music. While me and my friends were listening to Rush, KISS, Nugent, Queen , Aersosmith. I felt i had FOUND something different. IT BLEW ME AWAY. My friends didnt get it, except one. We loved the PISTOLS. My first band, i taught them God Save the Queen. This is such a cool video. Classic Riffs.
i've just watched pistol (the pistols biopic) and jesus fuggin christ it was amazing, especially the casting i mean the guy who played johnny rotten completely nailed the character and the voice i absolutely recommend that series to anyone, even if you have never liked the pistols
@@mjh5437 Way to escalate an unintentional typo into rando heavy petting zoology nomenclature?🤔 Jesus H Christ, I forget the internet has recessively become a pretentiously lukewarm kiddie pool of self affirming cringe ever since the supple helicopter parented institutionalized shooter drill generation sprouted short and curlys and became irrelevantly self aware. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Ever see the Ramones live before Dee Dee left the band kid?! I have. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1983 on my 7th birthday. My mum's more punk than ye.🙄
In his autobiography Andy Blade of the band Eater says that Steve Jones'¹ early Les Paul was bought by Eaters guitarist Brian Chevette. This is the one used by Jones in 1975/76.
I got an epiphone les paul, and thanks to this I was able to get the tune I needed without having to buy the specific gear. I can't play nearly as good as the handsome fellow in this video, but pretty much the entirety of last year I've been trying to replicate songs from that one album watching dozens of different riffs and different peoples takes on the same song. When I got into the pistols I could barely play, now I'm honestly finally content with what I'm doing. I got me own playstyle, I can kind of competently play punk. Sure, its easy to hear that my playstyle is very pistols-inspired (except I can't play solos for shit) but I mean its enough for me. If I got a lead guitar to accompany it actually sounds sick
I love Epiphone guitars,and usually argue that they are absolutely close to the sound of Gibson, but Steve Jones (my favorite guitar player of all time) didn't play guitar, he played tone, and his tone is so specific that the Epiphone just can't reproduce it. Great video. And btw, there's a black p90 Epiphone Les Paul behind you.
The main difference is pickups in this case to Epiphone. Their probuckers are ever bit of a paf recreation as burst buckers. The Steve Jones Les Paul has 490T and 490R which are very different and more high output than the mid output paf style of the probuckers and burst buckers. The p90 in the background is a signature JJN old glory.
When I saw this guitar it brought in my mind the ESP EC-1000T Vintage Gold Satin that you playd some weeks ago at ESP's factory. Both are lovely guitars!
@@cornstar1253 I have a Revstar 320 and I did put a tube screamer in front on my Amplitube patch, it sounds good. A friend of mine has an original super reverb, that thing cranks volume!
Man great video you should defdo some lessons to play the whole pistols catalog also I have a Gibson jr I got one to play Johnny thunders an pistols tunes I’m using a boss katana mk 2 50 what would be the best settings to get jones tone ? Same idea as the fender amp?
What a treat, he's a real hero to me along with John Mcheogh, although the custom and Fender are the most authentic, the Marshall TSL has the body of the layered recording.
The JCM800s would be post-glory days work: solo work and/or reunions. Those amps were out in ‘77. The ‘90s JCM800s were modified by Harry Kolbe and were Billy Duffy’s.
Anyone that doesnt love the sound of the LP whether it be an Epiphone or a Gibson or a copy cant fully appreciate an iconic sound! Jus sayin! Thanks Dagan and PMT!
Great playing and sound. "Fire and Gasoline" was a great record too. I saw him playing live while he was touring that record. I think he was opening for The Cult. I also got to spend a good part of an evening with him at the Cathouse in L.A. I'm pretty sure he only hung out with me cause I had cigarettes and was gushing over his work. We parted ways that night when he noticed a girl seemed very interested in me and he asked me what I was doing hanging out with him when I could be hanging out with her. I took his advice but- in all honesty I would have rather hung out with him.
I loved this video. I first started playing after watching Play in a Day the Steve Jones Way on the Nevermind the Bollocks Rockumentary (Which I noticed you referenced a lot). I just used to watch it and copy his hand movements. The sound I've always wanted to recreate was his from that segment with the Marshall High Stack and a Burny. He even plays down half a step in that one I saw an article about the origninal Steve Jones custom because Steve actually sold it at one point. Jah Wobble from PIL thinks he owns it but Jones was presented with "The original" and he looked over it a few times saying "It'd been broken a few times" but the knocks wern't right on it so it wasn't the right one
awesome to hear some riffs from jonesys fire and gasoline lp jonesy was the best show/band ive ever seen live it was at the Ibeam in san francisco in 1991. jonesy shredded hard
1. Its SYLVAIN SYLVAIN. 2. YES it had a Bigsby put on by Syl, who took it off. 3. Both the '57 and the Custom were used on the album, its just that a photographer was there for one session when the' 57 was used. 4. Jones only used an SG on the 1978 NO ONE IS INNOCENT / BELSEN VOSSA GASSA session in Rio with Ronnie Biggs. 5. The original Joned guitar is in rough shape, the stickers have peeled off, and the holes where the Bigsby was mounted are exposed.
@@mjh5437 it is in Hawaii..... A woman has it. It is in bad shape. Heavily yellowed, the decals came off long ago and the shapes where they used to be can be seen. She offered it to Jones a few years ago for hundreds of thousands of dollars, but seeing the state of it, he wasnt interested.
Nice job... You forgot about a critical item to Jonesy sound Fender label orange painted GAUSS 12" speakers that were a custom option $$$ in those years. thanks
How did you daisy chain that Marshall into the Tone Master. I don't want to screw up my tone master deluxe reverb. Because I would love to pick up either that Jubilee or the new Saldona solid state amp
Dagan you nailed it. Will always be smug that I was a teenager in the mid-late 70s - littered with so many great bands and personalities. Feel sorry for the kids of today.
Punk Rock guitar players never get enough credit for sending so many of us on our own path in music.
I CERTAINLY with that! They could be described as "guitar ANTI-heros".
So true
Amen to that 🙏
Steve Jones is the reason I saved up for and bought a Gibson Black Beauty back in the 90s. Still have and love the guitar to this day.
The same reason I'm saving up for a vintage white Les Paul Custom. I done got the same stickers, just need the guitar. Just got a Fender Twin.
Jonesy is such an underrated player. The dude just exudes rock and roll. The tone, the swagger, the unpretentious grab you by the ears tone, the rock solid riffage. And he got great! Every time he came back around he was better. He and Malcolm Young are two of my absolute heroes for those reasons.
Mike I'm with you on that.
Been playing since 1980
Angus & Steve...
Best sound ever.
I like the guitar into amp.
And go RNR.
No pedals for lead...
To really get that Steve Jones sound, all your gear must be stolen!
😄😄😄
Okay...Well... That's why I've never been able to sound like him...I guess I'm gonna have to steal some gear 😄😄😄
Yeah and no his gutter was given to him buy Malcom manager of Sex Pistols and the New York dolls
@@evilsidsmonkey I suggest you look at mid seventies footage (videos and photos) of the pistols, he played numerous guitars. The white Les Paul is iconic, but it wasn’t played that much.
Brilliant 🤣🤣
This is really well done. And Steve Jones's tone has always grabbed me by the ears and demanded my full attention! You've done a fine job. Good to see Stave gets proper recognition these days. It doesn't have to be complicated to kick ass! Balls and attitude!
I saw them at the Winterland last show. Steve jones played, killed it! I went out 2 days later and bought a LP Jr what I could afford. I was a kid and my older brother worked for the promoter BGP taking pictures....
Dagan, you've nailed that tone, sound, and feel better than any vid I've seen, apart from Steve himself. I hope you do a separate breakdown video for each Pistols track.
I was lucky enough my wife about 20 odd years ago won on EBay a white Les Paul signed dated and authenticated by Steve Jones dated from their first comeback tour in Finsbury Park in 1996, I believe it was originally offered as a prize in one of the UK guitar mags. Sadly it’s not a Custom just a Studio with gold hardware but it has turned that lovely cream yellow colour.
I’d wanted a Gibson Les Paul since I was in my early teens in the late 70s always way beyond my price range so was well thrilled to get this particular Les Paul
I remember that competition!!
@@BeesWaxMinder I didn't win the competition but a few years later the guitar was up for sale on Ebay so my wife bought it for me.
I'd wanted a Gibson Les Paul for about 15 years always remember drooling over them in Tin Pan Alley and various guitar shops up London always out of my price range though
@@TheFairway8 that was good of her
I love Denmark Street
I remember entering that competition …I’m pretty sure it was in guitarist magazine (if it wasn’t it was in “guitar“)
@@BeesWaxMinderyou're right. I've got the magazine somewhere it was sent with the guitar as part of authentication, that's some memory you've got
@@TheFairway8 thanks!
That’s some guitar(&wife!!)you’ve got!
Steve Jones is a fantastic guitarist, and I have to say, You have managed to perfectly recreate His unique sound. Well done.
Steve Jones also my No 1 guitar hero. 2 reasons: made me realise quitar doesn't have to be complicated to be great; we share a name!
Damn!! Holy damn!! I watched half way through and had to go straight to my bedroom and plug into my Marshall with the 4x12 with my Epiphone Sheraton 2009 and damn I loved every minute playing those power chord riffs!! I can see how much Steve jones inspired many punk/pop punk guitarists… Les Paul Custom was always my dream guitar growing up in alpine white and a Marshall..
Dude thank you for inspiring me to play because I’ve been down in a rut for a few weeks and watching you has brought me back!!
Probably my favourite guitar tone on record.
It`s savage;never bettered.
This and Ed Kuepper from The Saints on the Stranded album
Yep. Can't be beat. On their reunion tours, his sound is massive.
Hell yeah! I also always really dug The Strokes guitar tone as well lol.
@@coryfoster4907 can’t say I agree
Finally someone got it right! Spot on. For the perfectionists, Steve put Gauss speakers in his Fender twin for NMTB's.
Jonesy is an unassuming legend, tone to die for.
Thank you, THANK YOU, T H A N K Y O U!!! for making this video. I had so much rebellious anger as a teenager during the 80's, I probably would have gone to prison had I not discovered the Pistols and through them a way to express myself productively. Started my own punk band just to play the Pistols and the Furs. I only did vocals then, but I'm learning guitar now. I will be spending a lot of time with this video to learn from you, Dagan. What a wonderful contribution to UA-cam. Your enthusiasm is contagious. Thanks again!
Jonesy’s the reason, reason, I started playing guitar too.
Great tone you’ve got there.
God save the Queen my son.
Dude when you put silly thing in the intro I was thrilled 😂 I love the Sex Pistols and Steve Jones is one of my favorite guitarists. His story and how he came to play guitar is the reason why I started learning in the first place. And he came up with some pretty bad ass riffs and I love his little fill ins on the album
Awesome! Yeah, Dagan often cites that as one of his all time favourite songs!
Wow - great timing; I learnt God save the Queen specifically for the jubilee, but that tone you got in such a simple ‘clean’ way - it’s stunning. Utterly inspiring video, I “must try harder”
Nice one, Dagan!! I turned 10 in 1977 and the Sex Pistols, the Buzzcocks and the Clash ruled my world!! My Dad worked at a TV/Radio station at the time and the older DJ's couldn't stand Punk so I was the inheritor of all that distorted goodness!! Soon Siouxsie and the Banshees entered my collection which by the time I was 13 in 1980 included Bauhaus, XTC and the Cure and well I guess you can see the trajectory I was on. Thanks again Mate, that was Fantastic!!
Also worth checking out is Andy Taylor's "Thunder" album from the 80s which I believe Jonesy played on.
He did indeed.
Yes he did
Love that album!
Yeah, I forgot about that.
Dagan
I'm from that era.
Hard core punk 77.
You've nailed it my son.
Satellite....my favourite.
PS the studio twin he used was moded
For more mids.
Dont ask me how.
The Marshall's he used at Brixton were the CULT,S.
and modified. Whilst owned by the Cult.
He tuned down....
DONT FORGET THE PROFESSIONALS..
Just another dream..
123
Action man...
White light..
Ect..
Last word..
Dimond Head. Was formed
After watching The pistols on tv.....what a legacy.
Great video, love this Pistols sound. I use my Epi LP special with swapped SD antiquity P90’s for dry high gain Punk and Hardcore sounds, works great!
Nailed it. I've been a Sex Pistols fanatic for 45 years and it's always been mainly about Steve's guitar for me. I'm primarily a bass player but I play some guitar too and the only guy I've ever tried to properly get right is Steve Jones. I've picked up tips and stuff over the years, more recently and watching UA-cam stuff (lots of geezers out there in UA-cam land doing instructional vids and GETTING IT WRONG!) and what you have correctly realised is that what Steve lacked in technical ability he more than made up for in feel. That guy was just obviously in love with the noise he was making! So thanks for the video dude, I've picked up a few more tips from it, mainly with the Anarchy solo which I nearly got right but now, watching you, I reckon I can nail it.
I love that you did this. Everyone always has a hard on for sid vicious. Cheers Dagan. 🤘
It should be said that while I'm not from the UK, I always watch your videos. Dagan always looks like he's having a blast while so many people making videos look like they are bored out of their mind. You all at PMT need to make sure another company doesn't try to gobble him up.
The intro to Bodies is still so menacing it sends shivers down my back.
Same with "Did You No Wrong."
Brilliant work Dagan. You should've thrown in some riffs off 'Mercy' though. A killer album. Anyway you did the Big Man proud. Thank you.
Yeah I wanted to, but thought I’d keep it solely Pistol based. Amazing album though, that’s my vinyl stuck to the wall! Haha
Fire and Gasoline had some great tracks, too.
@@DaganWilkin Great work Dagan . Have a listen to 76-77 box set with all the demos on ,they sound great .
@@corneliuscrewe677 Troublemaker still my favorite. Reminds me of a GF I had at that time, she was with me at his Palladium NY Eve show after the album came out haha.
Didn't expect this quality. Well done man 👌👏 bought NMTB at age 12 and never looked back, it's been 30 years and it still excites me
Man, love that you covered this. Loved The Pistols, seen them live and that guitar sound is awesome.
Got to do The Clash!
The Sig and the Tone Master nail the Jones tone straight out of the box.
Nice work, Sir
You've pretty much nailed the sound mate! Brilliant review as always! I have the same white Epiphone LP custom and agree it's a superb looking and playing guitar, actually I prefer it to my Gibson LP Standard 120th Anniversary model.
Now that you've done the Sex Pistols, why not do a The Clash Mick Jones/Joe Strummer gear guide
Because neither of them ever had even a half decent guitar sound 😁
Mick Jones is one of the most origin al songwriters ever….
@@grahambrook1548 is he aye? So what's that got to do with guitar setups/tones?
@@monsterpopMusicFactory Messa Boogie and guitar synths.
@@monsterpopMusicFactory ?
There was a Bigsby on the LPC originally. It was removed & the one sticker covered the holes. There are picks of Syl playing it before Malcom got it & gave it to Steve. Steve had a sunburst LPC w/ a Bigsby & he hated it. But anyway. Nice playing sounds cool. During the '96 tour he was using the JCM 800's & a Danelectro Daddy 'O' for a Boost. Great pedal! Thanks for the post!!
Steve and Angus were my main reasons for playing guitar. You got Steves sound and feel pretty good.
What microphone and interface did you record this with? It's incredible.
The finest thing Steve did post Sex Pistol’s was the Neurotic Outsiders with Duff Mckagan, Matt Sorum and John Taylor from Duran Duran in my opinion. Well worth checking out! It definitely has a Pistols/Professionals vibe about it. Sadly like the Pistols he only made one proper album.
Killer tone re-creation! The only things missing are the crackle and pops of vinyl and the hiss of a dubbed cassette. spot on! Cheers
LIke button smashed. Steve Jones is the guvnor. Always will be!
I Remember trying the white Gibson of Steve in Denmark Street in 82.. What a moment for a froggy!! 🇫🇷
Thanks for this. Really great work on a very underrated guitarist.
Hi from downunder, I was a punk in the 80s and a huge Pistols fan. I died my hair like Sids, amongst others but I heard that Steve Jones 'nicked' the Les Paul from a Bob Marley gig and striped it and put the pin up girls on it to help disguise it. The bass work was already done by Glenn Matlock before Sid joined the band. I was a big Sid fan but he was no musician. 🧷 🤘
Awesome! Yeah there’s pictures of Syl Sylvain in the New York Dolls with the guitar before the Pistols, when Malcolm McLaren used to manage them, there’s a lot of mystery around it but that’s the definitive history! Haha. Also the producers have confirmed that it was all Jonesy on bass, Glen helped write a few songs though. 👌
Actually most of the bass was re-recorded by Steve. If you listen to “Spunk”, the demo album released before Bollocks, the bass playing is way more busy (awesome actually), and That was Matlock
Thank u for taking the time to respond to my comments. The story I heard about his Les Paul sounds like Steve, taking the piss. Like your videos too, cheers. 🤘
I think it was actually the Twin Reverb that was nicked from Bob Marley...
Saw them on the Filthy Lucre Tour in '96 in Dallas. They were beyond great. Steve played what I'm sure was a copy of the pin-up girls Custom and a blue sparkle LP Custom. Also saw him well before play a New Years Eve show in LA at the Palladium in '89 after Fire and Gasoline came out, he played the pin-up girls Custom. He had really long hair but I think he was clean by then and again was great. I still have a '77 white (yellowed) LP Custom I bought used many years ago, Jones is the reason I bought it. I have never owned a Fender but I should get a Twin Reverb. I've thought about it before because of Bollocks (I thought it was stolen at a Faces show) and hearing you play the songs through one it's clearly the best sound. Great video. Never knew you were such a huge Pistols fan.
Nice piece of "authentic anarchy" on the right there.
You're also sort of going full circle with it, video-wise. Neat touch.
I was still doing Jimi Hendrix meets Michael Schenker solo's when Sex Pistols dropped their album. I learned it by heart immediately, started a punkband with some guys, most of our songs were Sex Pistols and Damned covers lol, then I was asked to join the only Dutch punkband that had a record deal, we recorded some great songs and did a lot of great gigs at a lot of great places, I barely played a solo for at least 1-2 years, not until I bought a 1975 Gibson Flying V in '79, it totally pissed off the singer so I quit the band. Then I heard Van Halen 1 and started learning new riffs and solo's again, man those were crazy days!!!
Ps: Dagan if ya wanna talk ADHD, i'm all ears 🤣😂🤣
Absolutely superb! Jonesy getting the well earned respect today that we’ve known he’s deserved for forty odd years…. cos I’m an old get.
Fantastic video!! Very complete!!
What electric guitar strings used Steve Jones in the Les Paul Custom 0.10 or 0.11? Thanks.-
Great video. Love Jonesy especially Fire and Gasoline album and Instinct album he did with Iggy Pop.
1977 ... The queens silver jubilee was a great time indeed. It was also the year Elvis (supposedly) died ,and the year I moved from harmonica to guitar. Peeps we're celebrating in the streets ,and coming together in a huge celebration, then came thatcher ,and messed it all up. I got into punk in 1976/77 ,and haven't looked back since. I was there ,and still am. I also have the new York dolls first album too m8 ,not to mention all the pistols records too ,even though they became everything they were against... (commercialism etc). So thanx for dragging up memories. Being a Geordie ,You need to check the toy dolls ,and try sum of olgas solos m8. Sum of them are tricky ,like we quit the cavalry !!!. Anyhoo ,I'm glad you hit a subject close to my heart ,and fondest regards to all back home in uk. (I moved to usa 21 years ago).
Awesome video thanks for this, I love Steve Jones guitar tone & riffs always love to see him getting the props he deserves 👊🏻
Dagan there's a few vids on UA-cam that attempt Jonesie's tone. A couple of 'em come close. But jeez mate you NAILED it. I salute you sir! And all your train spotter info is spot on. Just one small correction - the custom WAS used on NMTB. There is actually an interview with Steve that explains just Bodies and EMI had the black beauty and he can still tell the slight tonal difference between it and the custom, which was used on all the other tracks.
if i had seen this 10, 20, 30 , 40 years ago , i would have creamed myself. I was 16 in 1980 when i found the album NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS in the city library in Cedar Rapids Iowa. It changed my life then. Changed my taste in music. While me and my friends were listening to Rush, KISS, Nugent, Queen , Aersosmith. I felt i had FOUND something different. IT BLEW ME AWAY. My friends didnt get it, except one. We loved the PISTOLS. My first band, i taught them God Save the Queen. This is such a cool video. Classic Riffs.
This is magnificent. You have made me so happy. I heard about the P90 on Bollox Album. You confirmed it. You rule. 😎😊♥️
Hey man I just finished watching the first 4 episodes of The Pistols on Disney!
Probably the best I have seen on UA-cam. Awsom bro
EMI is mine favourite too, I didn't know it was played like that, what a great sound!
Aw man you played that medley at the start like a massive fan. Brilliant
i've just watched pistol (the pistols biopic) and jesus fuggin christ it was amazing, especially the casting i mean the guy who played johnny rotten completely nailed the character and the voice i absolutely recommend that series to anyone, even if you have never liked the pistols
Great playing! Nice tone! Love Sex Pistols! Its nice to hear Phaser on Anarchy In The UK, didnt know about this pedal.
I grew up on Jonesy's riffs from Never Mind the Bollocks! Little 80's troublemaker I was : )
Great stuff Dagan!
*BOLLOCKS* ffs!!
@@mjh5437 feel better? 🙄
@@EasyHeat Yes....."Bullocks" are male baby cows.
@@mjh5437 Way to escalate an unintentional typo into rando heavy petting zoology nomenclature?🤔
Jesus H Christ, I forget the internet has recessively become a pretentiously lukewarm kiddie pool of self affirming cringe ever since the supple helicopter parented institutionalized shooter drill generation sprouted short and curlys and became irrelevantly self aware. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ever see the Ramones live before Dee Dee left the band kid?!
I have. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
1983 on my 7th birthday.
My mum's more punk than ye.🙄
I realize you do the best videos. Never annoying, excellent playing. Thanks !! 👑👑👑
I don’t have a Les Paul Custom Custom but my Gibson SG Junior did alright. Angry little guitar. I had that same giddy smile playing those riffs.
In his autobiography Andy Blade of the band Eater says that Steve Jones'¹ early Les Paul was bought by Eaters guitarist Brian Chevette. This is the one used by Jones in 1975/76.
I got an epiphone les paul, and thanks to this I was able to get the tune I needed without having to buy the specific gear. I can't play nearly as good as the handsome fellow in this video, but pretty much the entirety of last year I've been trying to replicate songs from that one album watching dozens of different riffs and different peoples takes on the same song. When I got into the pistols I could barely play, now I'm honestly finally content with what I'm doing. I got me own playstyle, I can kind of competently play punk. Sure, its easy to hear that my playstyle is very pistols-inspired (except I can't play solos for shit) but I mean its enough for me. If I got a lead guitar to accompany it actually sounds sick
I love Epiphone guitars,and usually argue that they are absolutely close to the sound of Gibson, but Steve Jones (my favorite guitar player of all time) didn't play guitar, he played tone, and his tone is so specific that the Epiphone just can't reproduce it. Great video. And btw, there's a black p90 Epiphone Les Paul behind you.
The main difference is pickups in this case to Epiphone. Their probuckers are ever bit of a paf recreation as burst buckers.
The Steve Jones Les Paul has 490T and 490R which are very different and more high output than the mid output paf style of the probuckers and burst buckers.
The p90 in the background is a signature JJN old glory.
Ah ok! I love the 490r 498t's, that's why the 90s Les Paul studios were so sought after when I was a kid. perfect for punk rock
hi! nice job mate. a question: where did steve got that black beauty and that firebird? cheers
When I saw this guitar it brought in my mind the ESP EC-1000T Vintage Gold Satin that you playd some weeks ago at ESP's factory.
Both are lovely guitars!
Half hour of pure Pistols pleasure
Awesome video as usual! I went straight to my Amplitube 5 and dialed in a tone, I'm not usually a Fender guy but that rocked with the LP!
A Delux Reverb amp is amazing with an overdrive pedal and an LP.
@@cornstar1253 I have a Revstar 320 and I did put a tube screamer in front on my Amplitube patch, it sounds good. A friend of mine has an original super reverb, that thing cranks volume!
Thany you for this outstanding video. My favorite band. My favorite guitar tone!
I was surprised to learn that Jonesy didn't record NMTB with that white Les Paul. He recorded using a black LP with P90's.
Pretty Vacant one the best guitar and drum intros ever Steve always like to hear to talk about the old days nice guy
I agree. It sends shivers down my spine.
Wow I didn’t see that coming, you made my day! Can you do the ramones, the clash, mcr or blink 182?
blink 182🤮💩
Is that a pun ?
MCR would be cool, though they don't make the Phant-o-Matic anymore.
@@carlosgarciaruiz1102 no
@@efthymioskotsotas8220 i didn't see it coming is an album from Steve Jones 🤣
Amazing video!!! I’m not sure if I understood right, so he doesn’t have his original 74’ Les Paul from Sylvain sylvain?
He doesn’t! Apparently he knows who has it, but they wanted to sell it back to him so he sacked it off. Or so I’ve heard! Ha! - Dagan
Same. Saw Sex Pistols in 1996 and been playing guitar since. P90s through a Fender apparently.
I thought I was the only one who listened to "Mercy" relentlessly when it came out.
The Custom just sounds thicker and fuller than the others. Great Vid.
5:28 lmao my mum and dad were at that bob marley gig in Hammersmith
Man great video you should defdo some lessons to play the whole pistols catalog also I have a Gibson jr I got one to play Johnny thunders an pistols tunes I’m using a boss katana mk 2 50 what would be the best settings to get jones tone ? Same idea as the fender amp?
What a treat, he's a real hero to me along with John Mcheogh, although the custom and Fender are the most authentic, the Marshall TSL has the body of the layered recording.
2 very different guitarist. Good choice
The JCM800s would be post-glory days work: solo work and/or reunions. Those amps were out in ‘77.
The ‘90s JCM800s were modified by Harry Kolbe and were Billy Duffy’s.
Anyone that doesnt love the sound of the LP whether it be an Epiphone or a Gibson or a copy cant fully appreciate an iconic sound! Jus sayin! Thanks Dagan and PMT!
Great playing and sound.
"Fire and Gasoline" was a great record too. I saw him playing live while he was touring that record. I think he was opening for The Cult. I also got to spend a good part of an evening with him at the Cathouse in L.A. I'm pretty sure he only hung out with me cause I had cigarettes and was gushing over his work. We parted ways that night when he noticed a girl seemed very interested in me and he asked me what I was doing hanging out with him when I could be hanging out with her. I took his advice but- in all honesty I would have rather hung out with him.
I loved this video. I first started playing after watching Play in a Day the Steve Jones Way on the Nevermind the Bollocks Rockumentary (Which I noticed you referenced a lot). I just used to watch it and copy his hand movements. The sound I've always wanted to recreate was his from that segment with the Marshall High Stack and a Burny. He even plays down half a step in that one
I saw an article about the origninal Steve Jones custom because Steve actually sold it at one point. Jah Wobble from PIL thinks he owns it but Jones was presented with "The original" and he looked over it a few times saying "It'd been broken a few times" but the knocks wern't right on it so it wasn't the right one
The FINEST demo of my favorite band ever! Everything else is tame in comparison 😎‼️🔥🎸
Johnny Thunders would be a goodie.
He should do the New York dolls in general
Yes!!!!
Hell yes!
awesome to hear some riffs from jonesys fire and gasoline lp
jonesy was the best show/band ive ever seen live it was at the Ibeam in san francisco in 1991.
jonesy shredded hard
1. Its SYLVAIN SYLVAIN.
2. YES it had a Bigsby put on by Syl, who took it off.
3. Both the '57 and the Custom were used on the album, its just that a photographer was there for one session when the' 57 was used.
4. Jones only used an SG on the 1978 NO ONE IS INNOCENT / BELSEN VOSSA GASSA session in Rio with Ronnie Biggs.
5. The original Joned guitar is in rough shape, the stickers have peeled off, and the holes where the Bigsby was mounted are exposed.
Where is the original now?
@@mjh5437 it is in Hawaii..... A woman has it. It is in bad shape. Heavily yellowed, the decals came off long ago and the shapes where they used to be can be seen. She offered it to Jones a few years ago for hundreds of thousands of dollars, but seeing the state of it, he wasnt interested.
Damn near spot-on tone and playing
I’m so pleased you know it’s a cranked Fender Twin
Still the best video on UA-cam. Cheers
What is the white (possibly Boss) pedal on the floor next to the MXR? Tuner? - 8.40 into the vid
Just a Boss Tuner, not specific to the video. 👍
wow...so much correct info about the band and of course steve...great job man!
Nice class about how to get that tone. Thanks Dagan!
Solid state and digital have come a long way. Much further than I would have ever expected.
Please keep doing these videos.
Greatest band IMO , & my favorite guitar player Jonesy
Steve was a master arranger of music. Esp considering bollocks was his first time, etc.
Nice job... You forgot about a critical item to Jonesy sound Fender label orange painted GAUSS 12" speakers that were a custom option $$$ in those years. thanks
How did you daisy chain that Marshall into the Tone Master. I don't want to screw up my tone master deluxe reverb. Because I would love to pick up either that Jubilee or the new Saldona solid state amp
Dagan you nailed it. Will always be smug that I was a teenager in the mid-late 70s - littered with so many great bands and personalities. Feel sorry for the kids of today.