John Jones Music

Follow the link to this months McLeans magazine story written by Dan Hill about his song Sometimes When We Touch.

If you squint you can see the Celine Dion Grammy photo with Dan, Rick Nowels, me and Rick Hahn from 1997 in New York.

And this beautiful new song video.

jj song salon

Another great Monday night was had by all this week. Thanks to everyone!

Bruce Garnitz, Arianna Solare, Kid Theodore, Sebastian Sage, Elizaveta, Josh Kane, Steve Postell, Oz Noy, Kim Crain, Richard Martinez, Davinci, Amber, Roberto and Mike! (did I forget you?) And Life on Wilshire.

Kim Crain, Mike Gray, Steve P and jj

2010 started with a visit to Anaheim for the largest music store on earth known as the NAMM show. Anaheim was founded by German immigrants next to the Santa Ana river in Southern California in the 1850’s. Today it’s better known as the home of another old German invention, Disneyland. (more on that at a later date)

If you thought the rock and roll roadie look was confined to touring band employees you would have been mighty surprised to find yourself at a multi-age Roadie Convention. You could swear Gene Simmons just walked past you for the 10th time.

What a freak show!

Happy Birthday to Sean Halley (right) of Digidesign, seen here with jj and Derek from GC Pro and Jeremy Stappard of Apogee (not shown).

Along the way i ran into Steve Cooke & son, and the lovely Sandra. (Steve is playing at the Hollywood Renaisance on Thursday the 21st of January (tomorrow)).

The main event was Sabian Live at the Sheraton. After decent sets from Chad Smith and Terry Bozzio, Steve Ferrone took to the stage with music director and guitar legend Steve Postell and a host of special guests including Jeff Pevar, Lee Sklar, Bernard Fowler, Alex Ligertwood and many others. A very funky time was had by all! Here is a video from this great show:

Richard Martinez and yours truly were able to find a seat at stage left with Sabian wonderwoman Shirleen thanks to our host Chris Stankee.

I’ll leave the final word to Richard.

This is a really really nice Ferrari 599 GTB.

Last week I had a chance to drive it briefly on about 1 mile of very smooth and gently curving black top.

Bragging that i had been driven around Brands Hatch by Jackie Stewart caused my host to select “Race” mode on the steering wheel.

On my first try with the gear paddles, while changing to 2nd gear, I hit the window washers!

This car has unbelievable acceleration and braking! It felt like a rocket! I had to feather the throttle pedal and the brake pedal, they were ultra sensitive.

On my way back to the office I managed to give it a bit of a blast and accelerated up to 3rd gear before doing some very hard braking with a pounding heart!

I love the reverse button!

photo by richard martinez

And the feeling lasted for most of the rest of the day! Thanks for that!