Garbage Days Revisited #88: The Joneses - "Keeping Up With The Joneses" (1986)
(Andy's Note - So this one's going to be a bit different from your standard Garbage Days Revisited. I'd planned to write something on early Sunset Strip scuzzmongers the Joneses for a while now and had already got this one scheduled in the diary when, out of the blue, I got an e-mail from the PR guy for the group's frontman Jeff Drake asking if I would be interested in an interview as he's got an autobiography coming out in the next few weeks and there are plans to do some reissues of the group's back catalogue coming up. Although I've occasionally borrowed stuff from interviews I've done in the past for GDR columns on here, most notably the one I did with Haggis for the Zodiac Mindwarp , Cult and Four Horsemen articles, it's now several years since I'd actually done one as part of a feature. However, this looked like an excellent opportunity to get back in the saddle and so I agreed to take Jeff up on the offer. Happy to say that he was an a...