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What a great performance by Alan Frew and band of Hold On, performing at Canadian Music Week 1995 Alan Frew – lead vocal Anthony Vanderburg – guitars Sam Reid – keyboards Rique Franks – backing vocals Kojo Ferguson – bass, backing vocals Mark Kelso – drums

A photo from the 90s with Anthony Vanderburgh, Steve Churchyard, Alan Frew, Mick Fleetwood and John Jones at the Record Plant, Los Angeles, working on Alan’s Hold On album.  

January 1995 in my treehouse in the Hollywood Dell, rehearsing for the Alan Frew House of Blues gig with Fleetwood Mac.

Thanks to the kindness of Ken Roberts we are able to visit the past and watch Alan, Anthony Vanderburgh, Richard Martinez and Dr Who, rehearse the Frew/Reid composition HOLD ON, in the Mondrian dressing room for the Fleetwood Mac shows at the House of Blues, Los Angeles, in January 1995.

With a wink and a nod, no doubt to escape the winter storms in the East, Alan Frew paid a visit to sunny California. Of course, it was also Grammy week, and Alan was here in Los Angeles connecting with Canadians and other aliens of extraordinary ability for a bit of musical mash. It’s been […]

EMI Canada has remastered Glass Tiger’s hits from the 1980s along with Alan Frew’s from the 90s for a new release; Then ..NOW ..Next The album includes two songs I produced in Hollywood with Alan in 1994; Healing Hands (with Micky Dolenz), and So Blind (written by me & Alan). Both songs were on Alan’s solo […]

Starting with Rational Youth’s #1 Song; Bang On, from 1895, and finishing with the first “million downloaded song on the internet,” by Emily Richards in 2000, John Jones has produced, co-produced, engineered, programmed, mixed, performed, written, and or, made tea for, some very important people. Rational Youth – Duran Duran – Alan Frew/Glass Tiger – […]

Yes, she did. It was my home, and the Treehouse studio. And just before her summer of 1994, we recorded Alan Frew’s, Hold on, and then after she left, we were doing this: Alan Frew Band (John Jones, Anthony Vanderburgh, Chris Garcia, Richard Martinez) in rehearsal for House of Blues with Fleetwood Mac in January […]

  A year ago today we were finishing off the lovely Peter Gabriel song, Don’t Give Up, featuring Alex Ligertwood and Emily Richards, for the Meninos do Morumbi & Friends album, that also features, Julian Lennon, Richie Kotzen, Alan Frew, Gary O, Terry McDermott, Gary Twinn, Gene Anderson, Barnett O’Hara, and yours truly. It’s not too late […]

Classic songs with  Brazilian beats performed with special  guests  Julian Lennon, Richie Kotzen, Alan Frew, Gary O, Alex Ligertwood, Emily Richards, Terry McDermott, Gary Twinn, Gene Anderson & Barnett O’Hara, produced by Grammy Award winner, John Jones.