John Jones Music

By the grace of all things good and thankful, Mr Julian Lennon paid a swift, serious, soulful, sweet, and wonderful, visit, to East Gate, near Sherman Junction, Los Angeles, today, and laid some tracks for the Music is Hope Foundation project for Meninos do Morumbi, of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

John Jones and Julian Lennon after the session

It seems such a long time ago that we were celebrating my brother’s fourth birthday when the news came that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas! I was almost six, but the impact was huge on all of us, even those of us who were living in Ottawa, Canada at the time. And my Mother was just five days from delivering another son.

On a very cold morning in 2007, I visited Dallas, Texas. I parked the rental car as close to Dealey Plaza as I could. It was very confusing, but I got a parking meter a few blocks from the scene of the crime. Fortunately I did, because I might not have found any reference to Kennedy if I had landed in Dealey Plaza, where there is nothing but a very sad X in the middle of the westbound side of the road; the spot where the President of the United States was murdered on November 22, 1963.

The museum in the old School Book Depository has an effigy of Oswald in the top floor window. When you stand on the X and look up at that window, only 200 yards away, you can’t help but feel that something was terribly wrong with the investigation of the President’s murder.

Somehow these songs were never released outside of Japan. Sarah and Lost Without You were on the Japanese release of One Moment in Time in September 2001.

Both tracks were original song demos recorded in the UK between 1992 and 1993. Steve Ferrone added the drums at Record Plant in 1996 with Stuart Breed at the helm. Stuart mixed Sarah and most of the album at the Music Grinder studio in Hollywood. Sarah became my sister Sara’s song. We never found the original tape of Lost Without You, so Steve played along with my demo mix! Quite a workout!

1992 in Monaco Harbour in my Ray-Bans

Saying goodbye to friends in London, circa 1993

I was thrilled to see this interview with Terry Draper from a few years ago, talking about Klaatu.

Back in the late 1970’s we rehearsed at Shabby Road with our band Funn (Terry, Dee Long, John Bojicic, John Jones, Fred Coutts). We were having a great time until the floor collapsed into the lake! I don’t think we were the same band after that.

From JC (John Clarke) in Toronto: “Sad news I heard today…. Jack Kirkpatrick of Tele Tech in Markham, passed away on Monday Oct 28. I miss him already.”
We loved Jack. Those of us who have been a few hundred thousand in debt for recording equipment, know what it would have been like without a Jack Kirkpatrick to keep us alive, after the count! His support and encouragement came from his personal interest in our success! True love!

Jack talking about Daniel Lanois and then about the Aural Exciter in 2008.

Jack Kirkpatrick’s Tele-Tech Electronics is a fixture in the Toronto recording community and been a supplier of new and used Recording Equipment (and sage advice) for the past 54 years. After graduating from Ryerson as an Electronic Technologist Jack worked for A.V Roe on the Avro Arrow project before opening Tele- Tech in 1954 repairing Televisions and Tape recorders. Originally located on Avenue Road in Toronto it has moved twice, the first time to Etobicoke and then to Markham where it continues today.
In this time period Jack has seen almost every trend in modern recording come and go and has been a mentor and friend to many aspiring recordists, musicians and studio owners. Throughout all of this Jack has made time to stay current by studying Computer Science at York University and Cost Accounting at McMaster University, graduating in 1972 as a Cost Accountant.