John Jones News September 3, 2001

September 3, 2001

Oracabessa, Jamaica - early 1960's

My Times

August 20 was the 6th Birthday of this News Page.
Where has the time gone?

This week's song is Beat The Same Heart.

It's a song about Equality and Brotherhood and was written during the OJ Simpson Trial...

Beat The Same Heart
Recorded and Mixed 1996 in Hollywood on ADAT
The MIDI recorder was Notator on an Atari 1040 ST.
JJ playing all the instruments and vocals.

I've been busy with various Album and TV Music projects as well as a few too many golf games since I last wrote.

At the end of July I was in Toronto producing 5 Songs for Christina Paoletta along with Steve Revington at Lydian Sound where John Bailey tracked guitar,bass,drums and keys, and then at Prisma Sound overdubbing and editing on a very nice Pro Tools rig in a beautiful studio run by ESP alumni John Clark.

These are both great studios with fantastic staff that I would highly recommend to everyone.

I also sat in on a showcase gig with Emily and her band playing Organ at Genghis Cohen in Hollywood.
The Song was Just Kissed My Baby...

Just because we live on land doesn't mean we don't have to care about our brothers in the sea. As usual, the US Military has decided that we are more important than creatures that swim....

They have been developing, testing, and probably using, a dangerous Sonar device to detect Submarines that emits a violently loud sound that is causing sea animals to commit suicide on the beach while at the very least causes hemorrhaging (bleeding!) not to mention scaring the crap out of anything within a few miles of the 235 decibel 3.5-7.5 kHz racket!

Whales and Sound

"The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) says these injuries are survivable-and they are, but only with hospitalization. And whales don't have that option..."Earthwatch"