John Jones Music

A man of few words and many deeds, Mr Ken Roberts returned to the fold this month.

Ken is the “über” Audio-Visual geek from Hawthorne, California; home of the Beach Boys. He was executive producer on my One Moment in Time album.
Need I say more?

John, Ken Roberts and Richard Martinez in South Hollywood recently.

Another great Scot has passed away. Jack Bruce was a major influence on rock music with his groundbreaking songwriting, bass playing and singing, especially with bandmates Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker in their super-group The Cream.

I first heard Cream when my cousin visited us from Wales and brought their Disraeli Gears LP. He tried to draw the cover on my sister’s bedroom wall with crayons. Even though I was a Monkee fan at the time, I loved Sunshine of Your Love! When White Room was released, thousands of bands were formed around the world!

Here is a proper obituary of Jack Bruce in case you were getting tired of him being mentioned as Eric Clapton’s bass player (who also sang)!

And the YouTube of White Room.

Alan Frew is responsible for keeping me in L.A. from autumn 1993 until the spring of 1994.

By May we finished mixing his Hold On album and sent it off to Stephen Marcussen in Hollywood to be mastered.
After the last evening of mixing on the old Neve in the big room at A & M, I left California on a red eye for 2 months of recording with Duran Duran in the South of France…while I was there Alanis lived in my studio-house in the Hollywood Dell, yards from the home of Trigger.

This is our song, So Blind, from those Hollywood Hills sessions twenty years ago. Justin Clayton on guitar sweetening. Your’s truly on piano and at the helm with Walter Turbitt and Steve Churchyard, with Steve Ferrone on drums, Chris Garcia on bass!

It was a radio hit in Canada in 1995.

Bach meets the Blues!

John Jones and Steve Ferrone – From the black n white album by john jones