John Jones Music

What a great week in Los Angeles. We’ve had unbelieveable weather. 70’s for days. Everything is green. The Jasmine is out. The Sycamores are two weeks into leafing. The air smells sweet. What more can you ask?

This past Friday, the 8th Annual Patrick J. Flanders II memorial charity golf tournament was played at Malibu Country Club. Raising awareness of the problem of Driving Under the Influence the event honors Patrick junior and all of our families and friends who have suffered the tragedy that drinking and driving causes.

After the tournament I performed Jealous Guy and Norwegian Wood with Herman on acoustic guitar and harmonies. We were followed by our AWAKE Community team leader, the brilliant Emily Richards on piano & vocal. Emily was wearing a neck brace covered by a scarf due to some overzealous head stands on the beach in La Jolla recently!

The 2010 Awake Community golf team – J.B. Jones, Dale Richards, Bob Jones & Mike Folkerds

The flowers at the back of the second green were beautiful. The camera cannot do it justice.

Woodbine & 16th, ESP Studios 1981

Click the photo to go to a page I put up some years ago of ESP Studios in Buttonville, Canada.

Along with Dee Long, Frank Watt, Noel, John Clarke, our families and many friends, we we managed to record and produce a lot of music between 1979 and 1985 in the old blacksmith shop, and when interest rates were over 20 percent, and the only game in town was Capitol Records of Canada.

The Rational Youth album Heredity that Dee produced with Tracy Howe, and a little help from me, was a beautiful and classic album, and still one of my favorites which I guess Tracy doesn’t like, and after which Dee and I moved to London, United Kingdom, and joined George Martin’s AIR Studios on Oxford Street.

The Pepall’s were in town last week from Toronto and Jack and I played golf with Bobby Jones at Los Angeles Country Club. The more famous and difficult North course is under renovation so we walked the beautiful South course. Both courses were designed by Herbert Fowler in 1920 with later modifications by George Thomas and Billy Bell.

Jones, Jones and Pepall with Century City behind

This is a screen shot photo from a nice chat I had with Nick and Simon from Tokyo the other day. They were together at Syn Studios creating music and looking forward to a drive in the country in an Audi R8 V10.

I’m still working on a little documentary of my trip to Tokyo last year…

Your’s truly with guitar creator Phillip Jarrell and guitar maestro Steve Postell at jjsongsalon #103

john jones home

Sir George Martin’s hand’s in cement at Guitar Center Hollywood

jj & Quincy Jones 2010.

john jones home

I forgot what it looked like. It was covered in Hollywood dust on the mantle.

Billings Artworks, Care & Feeding of your Grammy

Also see, Making the Grammy