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)
February 6th, 2018 § Comments Off on Wrapped Around Your Finger – Dan Hill § permalink
My song from 1995, that Dan Hill improved and recorded for his long lost; I’m Doing Fine album of 1996.
Produced, engineered, performed, and written by John Jones and Dan Hill. With Steve Churchyard, Steve Ferrone, Richard Martinez, Michael Thompson and Stephen Marcussen.
February 5th, 2018 § Comments Off on Falling Angel – Duran Duran 25th § permalink
Falling Angel. One of the really great songs that I produced, engineered, programmed, and played guitar on, that didn’t make the final cut of Duran Duran’s Wedding album.
February 1st, 2018 § Comments Off on So Blind – Valentine § permalink
It started out as my 1992 Valentines day song, written in Paris, asking for forgiveness for being a man. It didn’t work.
And the brilliant Alan Frew/Glass Tiger recording with Steve Ferrone, Justin Clayton and Chris Garcia, recorded in the Dell, and at the Record Plant, Hollywood, and mixed on the Neve, and a flock of Fairchilds, by Steve Churchyard, Walter Turbitt and myself, at A & M Studios, Hollywood (Chaplin, Hansen), and mastered by Stephen Marcussen.
A Number 1 Hit Song of 1995 in Canada!
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.
