John Jones News September 13, 1999

September 13,1999

Walter moving back to London...summer of 1999.

My Times

In 1992 I met Walter Turbitt when he came to London to do a test mix for Duran Duran. We mixed Love Voodoo at Maison Rouge until Dave Richards sent his first mix of Too Much Information. That mix set the future tone for the album and Walter was out of a job!
Despite the hassle the band put him through, we hit it off as friends in those few short days and began playing golf and working on my demo's on the weekends.
One time he came down to Sussex and after playing golf at Lingfield Park he came back to the pool house where he stayed the night (no, we are not homosexual), and worked on this weeks Song of the Week : This Time.

Walter plays the loud electric and the funky keyboard hook in the chorus as well as having tried to make me stray from the melody in the outro. I was still writing the song.

At the time I was going through a sad breakup and I needed to feel that I was the one who was leaving...

Yes the Emily Richards album is finished and on it's way to the pressing plant!
Stephen Marcussen mastered the CD at A & M Mastering in Hollywood. I took the Pro Tools system to his studio and played the 24 bit, 48k files digitally into his own secret 24 bit converters. He did a wonderful job and left me feeling very happy with his kind words about the sound of the record. I hope you get a chance to buy it when it comes out next month...

In my continuing quest for The Lost Tapes of Mick Fleetwood I'll be rough mixing about 40 songs of Mick's solo material from 2" over the next few weeks that we found in one of the many vaults he's got tapes resting in.
All of the tracks will be transferred to Hard Disk for later finishing.
As we have 2 hours of music to choose from already, this batch should "fill our cup" as far as the Best of Volume 1 is concerned.
Over Christmas we'll make the decision as to what songs will be released first. There should be a single as we also have film of many of the recordings...stay tuned.

Here's a good music production links page - Ken's Audio Links

Last night on television I caught a few minutes of a group of Film and TV producers, directors and actors debating whether their medium's have contributed to the lawlessness in our societies. I didn't watch enough of it to hear their conclusion, but they seemed to think that they are not the problem and that schools and parents are the real culprits.

I would have thought that everyone is to blame, but surely the media win a special award for promoting some of the worst behavior that human beings have to offer.
They have to accept that if you show a child scene after scene where people are solving their problems blowing each others heads off that it might have a teeny influence on their acceptance of these types of solutions.
I mean, we're only human.
We learn from what we see. They are having a major influence on society with their so called artistic license. Just notice what happens in countries that didn't have TV and mass produced films and how they change when they do get to see them.

Their argument is that art imitates life, and while that may be true on some levels, it does not mean that all life is worth imitating.

I recently saw an interview with a local news reporter. She was asked why they show insane live police chases almost everyday in Los Angeles.
She said they're only showing them because "the public wants to see it", and "as broadcasters our duty is to the public".
Really?
Does she think that a child would benefit from seeing a van full of people crash and burn trying to outrun the law?

" When I watch TV and see those poor, starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean, I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all the flies and death and stuff." ."
Mariah Carey, quoted in Vox Magazine