Carbon/Silicon's Mick Jones and Tony James Talk Ferris Bueller, Fascism; Plus Watch Three Live Songs

"The great thing about the Internet is they don't know we're really old," joked Mick Jones, hanging backstage before a recent gig with his latest band, the file-sharing-friendly Carbon/Silicon. Click above to watch the onetime Clash guitarist and his Carbon/Silicon bandmate Tony James (formerly of Generation X) quote Ferris Bueller, explain how they've made it in the business for so long ("keep taking your medication") and discuss how the spirit of Seventies punk lives on today. "Music is a great way of raising debate," Jones says. "[Kids today] look back at the cool days, and some of those cool things were really good, like stand up against fascism."

Plus, here are three live performances from the Carbon/Silicon show at New York's Highline Ballroom:

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Song Stories

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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