Pistols fired up about honor

The news is still sinking in for Steve Jones: He and the other Sex Pistols are actually headed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

“It’s about as close as you can come to getting knighted in America,” says Jones, who these days is a disc jockey on Indie 103.1, the upstart L.A. rock station. “It’s amazing. Before when I said I didn’t care whether we got in -- well, I was just mad.”

Hall voters had passed over the Pistols for four years before deciding last week that the punk pioneers should be enshrined despite their skimpy discography; the British band imploded after releasing one complete album, the 1977 landmark “Never Mind the Bollocks ... Here’s the Sex Pistols” and some compilations, such as the memorably titled “The Great Rock ‘N’ Roll Swindle.” Their brief run was enough to create much of the template for punk rock as a concept.

Jones said he is turning his thoughts to performing at the induction dinner in New York in the spring and the not-small matter of picking someone to handle the induction speech -- and to deciding what to wear.

“I think we should go wearing tuxedos. What’s more punk than that? The swindle continues.”