Friday, June 19, 2009

Well, This Sucks


From The LA Times, earlier this year:
Jones joined the ranks of the unemployed on Jan. 17, when Indie 103.1, the scruffy but revered L.A. rock station, became a victim of a vicious downturn in advertising revenue. For five years, the Sex Pistol had been the gloriously unpolished voice of "Jonesy's Jukebox," an eccentric and unpredictable two-hour lunchtime show on which he played any obscure record he wanted, chatted up famous guests or just, well, whistled.
Read the rest here after your tears have dried.

6 comments:

Mike said...

I wonder if there are any of his old shows floating around on the internets.

Joe said...

Oh man, I thought you were going to say he was dead!!! He'll find something somewhere. Hopefully a bigger stage. Let's make him the next Bastardo!

Jay said...

They killed his old archives page, but hopefully SOMEBODY has some old shows somewhere.

One of his options is a show on Sirius. That would be a good fit, I think.

Wait a minute ... a Sex Pistol drives a Prius?!

Mike said...

I can think of at least one other old punk rocker who is driving around in a sensible cars these days.

Joe said...

I can think of two...

Jay said...

No Joe, if he were dead the title of the post would be SHIT. Have you learned nothing in three years?