John Jones Music

Sometime in early 1987 Dee and I were well and truly not enamored with the Fairlight CMI III. It made us £30,000 pounds more in debt when we moved to AIR Studios, and that was after trading in our Series IIX. And by that time we were mostly using Akai S900’s with our Apple Mac SE […]

The link to SYCO’s Fairlight demonstration from the early 1980’s was so wonderful. These machines were really awesome! We got ours at ESP in 1981. Dee Long had to cut his hair and shave his beard to get it! It was a Series II. Later we upgraded to the IIX and then the Series III. And […]

Nothing could be finer than to be in California in the springtime. Two old friends from AIR Studios on Oxford Street, London, find themselves having a pleasant afternoon at Rancho Park, in the Cheviot Hills of West Los Angeles, 20 years later. Who would have thought?  

A part of me will always be in Buttonville, even if they don’t remember we were there from 1979 to 1985. The latest news is about the IMMINENT DEMISE of the Buttonville Airport. No more bacon & eggs on a Sunday morning, watching the planes come and go. Those were the days! My house, the […]

And when this plays, I think about the awesome fun we had doing it. Dee Long sampled the parts at AIR Studios, Oxford Street. We jammed them into this song, and Chris Potter mixed it, at Olympic Studio in Barnes.

Here is a list of all of my news articles from 2016: January • Happy 90th Birthday Sir George Martin! • Heredity – Rational Youth album – Spotify • Jones soft rock songs from black n white album – Spotify • Jones Assorted Rock Songs – Spotify • Under Milk Wood, 1988, Sir George Martin production at AIR Studios • Etat D’Esprit – John Jacques Jones […]

I had an emotional, amazing, and fantastic, week in London, for the Sir George Martin APRS luncheon in Kensington. Faces from the past were in full attendance! It was a beautiful lunch, hosted by Paul Gambaccini, that was followed by a warm evening, across the street, at the Prince of Wales pub, and finally at […]

On the occasion of the celebration of the birthday of my long time friend and partner; a toast to Dee’s compassion, empathy, and genius! Happy Birthday Sir Dee Long!  

Dee Long and I began building the new Fairlight/Midi room at AIR Studios in 1985, with Malcolm Atkin, Dave Harries, John Goldstraw and Henk. The technical department were soon busy with Rupert Neve, adding 16 channel’s of his Focusrite 101 strips to the Neve A8971 custom console that he had made in 1981 for Studio […]

It was really great to bend an elbow last weekend with Steve Orchard, an old friend from our days at AIR Studios on Oxford Street! Steve was in town working at Hansen Studio, the former A&M, the former Red Skelton, Kling, and of course originally, the Charlie Chaplin studio. I didn’t get a chance to tell him that the […]