John Jones Music

It’s very sad to hear of the loss of Gerry Rafferty.

What a great song Baker Street was. It’s never lost it’s magic in all these years.

My most heartfelt wishes to one of the greatest men I have known in my life on his birthday today!
Happy Birthday Sir George Martin!

John Jones, Deana Smart and Sir George Martin in 1998 for the In My Life tour.

It was the 1980’s something or other, and we had a little reunion on Bayview avenue in Toronto of our old 70’s band. Beyond for short.

Bob Little, Dave Worth, John Jones, Jim Honeywell, Ken Basman, and Jeff Sacks holding the circa 70’s photo we were trying to recreate!

Bob Little, Dave Worth, John Jones, Jim Honeywell, Ken Basman, and Jeff Sacks

What can I say? “Call me Al”.

A Johnny Mercer song…Fabtastic!

Thanks to Richard Martinez for the link!

The dancing at the end “ain’t bad either!”.

RHYTHM ON THE RANGE (1936)

Martha Raye | Myspace Video

A part of me will always be in Buttonville, even if they don’t remember we were there from 1979 to 1985. The latest news is about the IMMINENT DEMISE of the Buttonville Airport.

No more bacon & eggs on a Sunday morning, watching the planes come and go. Those were the days!

My house, the Village Forge, and ESP Studios, looked like this in the early 80’s:

This is what it looks like today. Now you can buy gaz-o-line instead of an old chair or a hit record:

The buildings went across the street and became a school:

The information about the building’s history is wrong on the school website. Mindtech? I’ll have to let them know.

Spotted in Burbank. For sale in front of the shop:

Pulling out the past.

AIR Studios - Studio 5 with artwork in 1989

AIR Studios - Studio 5 and Studio 2's shared booth, in 1989

AIR Studios - Studio 5's Dee Long and John Jones, in 1989

It started out as the tape copy room. By 1986 it was a ‘state of the art’ Fairlight/MIDI studio on the fourth floor of the Burton building in Oxford Circus.

Dee Long at work, with Gerry Stellard, I think

John Jones and Dee Long in Studio 5 at AIR Studios with the Fairlight III.

The pictures are from a Sound Recording Magazine, Japan, July 1987, article about George Martin’s AIR Studios.

On a busy road in Morumbi, near the cemetery where he was buried, this portrait of Brazil’s fallen Grand Prix hero, Ayrton Senna, smiles at the passing traffic. “I am a Brasilian!”

Street art in Sao Paulo - Senna and John Jones

John Jones visiting Ayrton Senna's grave in Morumbi cemetery, Sao Paulo, Brasil