{"id":1359,"date":"2009-02-05T23:48:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T06:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/02\/jonesys-jukebox-gone\/"},"modified":"2009-02-05T23:48:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T06:48:16","slug":"jonesys-jukebox-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/05\/jonesys-jukebox-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonesy’s Jukebox Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the LA Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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POP MUSIC<\/p>\n

‘Jonesy’s Jukebox’ runs out of nickels<\/h1>\n

The demise of Indie 103.1 leaves Sex Pistol Steve Jones, host of the unorthodox but beloved show, without a day job.<\/p>\n

By Geoff Boucher, February 4, 2009<\/p>\n

\"jonesy.jpg\"It’s come to this — a Sex Pistol drives a Prius. On a recent crisp afternoon, Steve Jones, the guitar architect of London punk in its primacy, zipped down Hollywood Boulevard in his shiny white hybrid Toyota, which is customized with a rooftop image of her majesty Queen Elizabeth, a safety pin jutting from her lip. And you thought punk rock was dead.<\/p>\n

Even with the distraction of nubile young tourists strolling up the Walk of Fame, Jones was in a melancholy mood. You see, like so many people in America these days, the 53-year-old rock star turned radio DJ is looking for a job.<\/p>\n

“It’s weird not to have somewhere to go,” Jones said. “And wherever I do go next won’t be the same, I know that.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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