Classic Rock

Ayron Jones

“I can be cocky and brash and arrogant; I try to make sure that guy stays on the stage.”

AyronJones never knew his parents, but he thinks about them a lot. “They never saw me play guitar,” he tells us at the Royal Albert Hall, where he’ll open for Daughtry later.

“So I carry them with me as I go out there.” Formerly a child of Seattle’s foster-care system, Jones began playing guitar in bars at 19, and turned heads in 2021 with chart-topping single Tours with the Rolling Stones and Guns N’ Roses ensued, lifting him into rock’s new elite. Now 36

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