January 27th, 2019 § Comments Off on January 3, 2000 – My Times § permalink
Panasonic DVD-A7
My Times
The biggest y2k glitch that no one is talking about is coping with writing 2000 or 00 on letters and cheques. I remember when 1984 seemed a long long way away.
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I have become interested in the new DVD Audio format. This is a file standard for music along with video and slide shows and text that allows us to work in the very high quality of 24 bits and 96k sample rate and higher and stores it on a DVD disc. The door is now open to record and mix in 5.1 surround sound. The disc has room for a regular stereo mix as well.
It may seem like an exaggeration but I have never heard anything sound so real before. The dynamics are almost better than real life. In future we will be able to experience a closeness to sound that will make listening to recordings of the sea rolling onto the rocks just like being there. The capabilities are astounding. Long live DVD Audio!
Once the problems with copying are solved the market will be flooded with re-mixes of everything from Orchestras to the Beatles. Even though most people are heralding the age of the mp3, DVD Audio will make an mp3 sound like a very outdated mono AM radio. Of course at the rate things are developing the internet might figure out a way to stream these massive files anyway!
In our continuing quest to answer the age old question: What is a Record Producer… this article – The Record Producer as Architect – is worth a read…
The last few weeks there has been a lot of hot air spilled about the homeless situation in New York City. As usual we are never told the whole story… This article; Why are People Homeless? is worth reading if you would like to know a little bit more about the problem.
One of the greatest new products about to hit the streets is the Eye Track from Olympus. At the moment you have to see it in Japanese but before long it’ll be at your corner store. Full screen high definition sunglasses with surround sound! Yikes!
Flowers of Evil is an album of electronic music, released in 1969, that was written, performed, recorded, mixed, and produced, by Ruth White, which she put to an English translation of Baudelaire’s poem’s. I have been working on preparing her many albums for re-release.
February 11th, 2018 § Comments Off on The Silver Wedding Album Anniversary § permalink
My parents – Dr. John and Mrs. Dorothy Jones
Over the past couple of weeks I have been overwhelmed remembering the time I spent working with Duran Duran (John, Nick, Simon, Warren & Sterling). Between 1988 and 1995 we recorded three albums together, starting with “Liberty” and ending with “Thank You”.
Today marks the 25th (Silver) Anniversary of the second L.P., the “Wedding Album”; no doubt our greatest achievement!
February 9th, 2018 § Comments Off on February 9, 1993 – Turning Me Inside Out § permalink
With the Wedding Album turning 25 on Sunday the 11th, I wondered what I was doing on February 9, 1993. Apparently, that was the day I wrote and recorded Turning Me Inside Out!
Here is the un-official video, with the Wedding Album’s Steve Ferrone, and Leeza Hoffman, filmed at the old Griffith Park Zoo in 1998.
Mixed by Stuart Breed – From One Moment in Time (1998 page)
The band performed at Radio City Music Hall last Friday night in New York.
I was fortunate to have worked with Fleetwood Mac in 1995 on their album Time, with Mick Fleetwood, John and Christine McVie, Dave Mason, Billy Burnette and Bekka Bramlett. There have also been other versions of FM over the decades. I wonder if they were invited to the MusicCares show?
Here is These Strange Times, the title track that I produced, engineered, performed and created in my Hollywood Hills studio with Mick Fleetwood, Ray Kennedy, Jimmy Hotz, and with help from Ken Allardyce at Ocean Way.
Jones, Kennedy, Fleetwood and Hotz in Ocean Way studio in 1995
Anaheim was founded in 1857 by German immigrants as the Anaheim Colony. The heim (home) by the Santa Ana river. By 1870 the area had “scores of vineyards” and 47 wineries. A grape disease in the 1880s forced farmers to switch to orange growing, which lasted until the mid 1950s. Which is also when Disneyland opened.
Ninety years ago, in 1928, Disney released its first major film with fully synchronized sound; Steamboat Willie. Look how far we have come?
January 18th, 2018 § Comments Off on The Hollywood Sign § permalink
The news about putting another sign on Mount Lee, on the Valley side, made me think of my song from my 1994 album, One Moment in Time –The Hollywood Sign.
