Fire And Gasoline Scottsboro AL

Fire And Gasoline

Steve Jones

MCA Records, 1989

REVIEW BY: Christopher Thelen

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 01/13/1997

When you were a member of the Sex Pistols, how do you put yourpast behind you?

If your name was Sid Vicious, you created an even worse futureby allegedly murdering your girlfriend and dying of a drug overdosebefore your trial could begin. If your name was Paul Cook, youformed a series of bands that failed to go anywhere your formerband did. If your name was Johnny Rotten, you began using your reallast name of Lydon again and formed the band Public Image, Ltd.,whose work sometimes was more brilliant than the Pistols.

And then there is Steve Jones. He tried to make a name forhimself by taking an anti-drug stance after cleaning up his act,and he recorded two solo albums, neither of which sold particularlywell. (When not touring with the reunited Pistols last year, Joneswas also a member of the Neurotic Outsiders.)

This is truly a shame in the case of the second album, Fire And Gasoline, which showed that Jones was not only acompetent guitar player, but a decent singer in his own right.