Comments on: Interview with Steve Jones

By: Mike E.

Mike E. — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:07:25 +0000

Drew – Thanks for writing in, I appreciate your comments. I’d get a kick out reading the DOA interview sometime.

Justin – Thanks again for writing in, and when I get writer’s block you’ve helped me jog some odd memory that I’ve buried away. – Mike E.

By: Drew Lush

Drew Lush — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:25:46 +0000

Mike I need to concur with Justin here. That was one detailed and thourough interview. But, half that battle is the one being interviewed. Back in my college days I had a chance to interview Joey Shithead and talk about a great guy. In the 20 minutes I spent with him (very cool humble dude BTW), he gave me so much material I couldn’t keep track and he does that in every town.

Great read once again, thanks for the painstaking details and bringing to light travesties that often (too often) get ignored.

Funny in a way, when I was reading that interview I was listening to the “Beach Blvd.” comp. Stepmothers not being on it I know, but still that moment in time when LA punk still had a very cool innocence to its scene.

Your friend Drew

By: justin

justin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:56:19 +0000

I don’t know what it is Mike but these interviews of your kick ass. I guess it could be several things like the fact that you don’t interview meatheads, the well thought out questions you ask, and your passion for music. Steve comes across as a really cool guy, seems like those early scenesters tend to be that way. I only know the Stepmothers from the Rodney comp and that wasn’t one of my favorite tunes. Need to do some more searching and give some of that stuff a spin. Thanx as always dude.

By: Jay Thurston

Jay Thurston — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:53:12 +0000

This is cool.

By: Mike E.

Mike E. — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:09:51 +0000

Thanks for writing in . . . everybody. I’m with Scott on this, The Stepmothers, and Steve Jones were responsible for some really great songs, that were for lack of a better term a part of the soundtrack to my youth. But information on them was always few, and far between. So, as a youngster I always said if I could ever track down Steve I would put together something a bit more “meaty.” Hopefully, we did that.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:34:18 +0000

Robbie, Dude, I WAS championing the very legit nature of your activities! You brought a scene to record, and therefore to life for the rest of the planet, including the first one, F-Word, and you put out our records and helped launch my career(s). I’m your biggest fan, you punk rock impresario pirate!
Nothing but love, bro.
And hey, if anyone, like you, me or Jay makes some money, one day, from our time in those trenches, that’d be poetic justice, after all the blood, sweat and tears we shed then and there…

By: Robbie Fields

Robbie Fields — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:09:22 +0000

I love Steve Jones but if anybody was the hustler it was him!
But I like the pirate attribute he gives me, other than it detracts from the very legit nature of my activities.
What made the Stepmothers unique among the Posh Boy bands of that era was that I did not produce them or even champion them. That was all Jay Lansford’s doing, as he worked for me and I would allow him to use studio time when I was out of the country. I’d come back and there would be heaps of these fabulous masters that were always too good for the market.
But I always did my best for Steve and someday we’ll all make a penny or two from those recordings, as Steve knows full well there was no money to rip off from the meager sales back in the day.
All that said, it’s great to continue to collaborate with him to this day and it does send shivers down my spince to hear him sing.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:59:42 +0000

Good stuff, Steve Jones is someone who I don’t think I’ve ever read anything about which seems ridiculous considering some of the music he’s been involved with.

By: Jay Thurston

Jay Thurston — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:51:17 +0000

Great interview!!!!!! It is really sad to think that people actually forget about the D.I.Y aspect of life and start loving the radio crap music. I try to listen to the radio and it….still sucks! Oh well,to each their own, I suppose. I was at that Bruce Springsteen concert in ’85…and fortunately realized how much I hated it and left after the 3rd long, drawn out, horn filled song. Thanks again Mike…great interview. Stepmothers forever!!!!