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Sex & Drugs

Groupies and Junk!!!  Well, yes I had a lot of both girls and boys following me around like puppy dogs. and yes, I am afraid to say that I succumbed to their advances!!! I was literally FORCED to have sex with them!!!   I said NO, NO, NO! But they INSISTED!!!  I tried to keep my nose clean (Except for the sulphate!!!) but it was hard considering the way the young things threw themselves at me!  That happened to me years before when I was in London with Bowie for the Midnight Special taping. I was shocked at how brazen British youth were!  They would get drunk and say things like. *Hey, you wanna suck on my knob!!!* Or is that Nob???  Anyway, I thought they were talking about the newest flavour of pop sickles!  You know those ice bars you get at the little shops on the corner!  Or they would say, *I*m really randy, I need a nice wank.* I had no idea what the fuck they were saying, and I missed many opportunities!   I kept thinking to myself., *Wow. the name Randy is really popular in this country!*  *I wish the heating systems were!!!!* And I was freaked out by the word WANK!!! I thought it meant a glass of water! But I got really excited when one of them said that his mate was *leading me up the garden path!* I thought I was going to get a good banging with mother nature all around me!  And I thought taking the  piss, was a strange, sexual term for drinking urine! I thought the British had some strange customs indeed!!!  But I, of course, soon caught on!  Oh, and *shag*. In America,  is a rug! When one nice, drunken lad from Birmingham, offered to *give me a good shag*, I declined, saying a rug would be too much trouble getting in to my suitcase.  And I didn*t want to declare it on my customs slip going back in to New York.

Sid was extremely paranoid about being *possibly* Gay. Leee and Johnny would give him *pep* talks to give him more confidence.  Sid even approached me at a gig, asking me if I thought he was Gay!!! Very strange! I didn*t know if he was taking the piss, was coming on to me, or was being dead serious! I do know he had a lot of misgivings about his sexuality. And of course, Nancy zeroed in on all that and used it to her advantage! I actually liked Nancy to a degree. We always got along fine. I even let her borrow money for *food* several times. Sid Vicious followed Johnny and Leee around like a puppy dog. Leee even managed Sid*s band the Flowers Of Romance for a short period! 

JUNK  --  Johnny Thunders did NOT introduce junk to the kids in London! Everybody was either on sulphate or junk when I got there and Iggy was a known junky! Also, everyone knew about Lou Reed*s junk problem. And they all knew about the junk songs of the Velvet Underground. If anyone in London made junk cool, it was Iggy and Lou Reed, and that is also highly debatable!  And the Hippies learned it from Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful!!!  And the book by William Burroughs, called *Junky* was highly popular among the art punks!  And besides, it was Nancy Spungen who got Sid on junk! Then Sid made it super, cool for all the young punks! 

I think Johnny was just doing what he had always done since the New York Dolls.  So blaming that one on Johnny is stupid and moronic.  Someone doesn*t know their punk or rock history!!!  Talk is cheap but getting the facts right is spot on!  It is easy to just be lazy with your fact finding and settle for just making up stories about something you know nothing about!  I don*t know who made that one up but they should be ashamed of themselves!  May Johnny*s ghost come back to haunt them!!!  And anyway, good, clean, well behaved rockers are BORING!  I was never into junk, cause I was such a speed freak!  But it has certainly played its part in Rock and Roll Babylon!  And Lou Reed*s junky song, *Waiting For The Man* is a classic piece of rock history.  Too bad Lou had to die like that! He was so much  better when he shot junk and fucked transsexuals, anyway! Now that we have this wierd  *POD* person, going around impersonating him , we can only dream of the good ole days when he was sleazy white trash, and writing good songs!  Same goes for David Bowie! He was better when he was, snorting coke, shaving his pubic hair and fucking transvestites!  Now he is rich, old and BORING!!!  

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