November 28th, 2024 § Comments Off on Bits & Bobs Vol. 1 § permalink
An album of song demos written and recorded by John Jones at ESP Studios, Hollywood Dell, Hammerwood, AIR Studios and Toronto Sound Studios between 1976 and 1988.
May 31st, 2024 § Comments Off on The George Floyd Protests Aftermath. Los Angeles. May 31, 2020. § permalink
“Meet you at 3rd and Fairfax”!
I heard the protest coming along 3rd street. I jumped on my bicycle and headed towards them only to find people with bats and knives and police with bats and guns committing some serious violence against each other which frightened me to death and I raced home! All night the pops and bangs and helicopters and sirens rang on and on like in a war zone! Crazy scary!
The photos in the video were taken the next morning.
I awoke to complete silence and empty streets. I grabbed my bike and rode around and took snaps. Later the California National Guard and the cleanup crews arrived to clean everything up and erase any memory of the night!
The song “Dear John” was written as a letter to John Lennon in December 1999. I was working with Mick Fleetwood on a project where I had his drum stem and it inspired me to write the music. The words are a letter to John.
The Aftermath of the George Floyd Protests at 3rd & Fairfax, Los Angeles, May 2020.
May 18th, 2024 § Comments Off on Have we been wasting our lives on Social Media? § permalink
@Facebook has been around longer than the most inventive years in Popular Music History, which might have been between “A Hard Day’s Night” by the Beatles in 1964 and “Owner of a Lonely Heart” by Yes in 1984! Have we been wasting our lives on Social Media?
June 4th, 2023 § Comments Off on The Road to Meddazaland – Duran Duran § permalink
The Barbarella Pictures interviews with many of the musicians, producers, and engineers who worked in the studio with Duran Duran. @DuranDuran
The documentary was written, produced, filmed and edited by Carsten Windhorst and Gerard Hynes!
I’ll admit, this interview was my first foray out in public in nearly a year.
If I hadn’t found a parking meter on Sunset Boulevard I might have been a no-show.
Carsten and Gerard were brilliant and supportive! We are overdue a pint!
Enjoy!
Part 2 of the Barbarella Pictures interviews with some of the people who worked in the studio with Duran Duran. The documentary was written, produced, filmed and edited by Carsten Windhorst and Gerard Hynes.
Part 3 – An awesome album! Not my story. Good music!