I was lucky enough to be producing this dude back in the 00’s. James Albin is a cat!
And Steve Ferrone on drums, and Sean Halley on lead guitar!
I’ll look for the recording details on this one…in the meantime, enjoy the video! (is that Peter Zimble on guitar?)
Somebody’s Fool, James Albin
January 1st, 2014 § Comments Off on Somebody’s Fool, James Albin § permalink
It was twenty, thirty, forty…old john jones demos on Soundcloud
December 27th, 2013 § Comments Off on It was twenty, thirty, forty…old john jones demos on Soundcloud § permalink
John Jones Music on Soundcloud
1 – Hide Your Love Away – December 24, 1993. The Dell, Hollywood.
2 – No More War II – 1985. With Dee Long. Fairlight at ESP in Buttonville.
3 – Are You Well – 1980. Fairlight at ESP in Buttonville.
4 – Second Stand – 1976 – With Steve Vaughan & Cam Hawkins at Toronto Sound.
The Light (lyric video)
December 19th, 2013 § Comments Off on The Light (lyric video) § permalink
Snowflake has just released a lovely new song, with a cool lyric video called The Light.
Julian in the house!
November 27th, 2013 § Comments Off on Julian in the house! § permalink
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
Kennedy Day 2007; john jones in Dallas
November 22nd, 2013 § Comments Off on Kennedy Day 2007; john jones in Dallas § permalink
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.
Two New Singles from John Jones
November 15th, 2013 § Comments Off on Two New Singles from John Jones § permalink
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
Klaatu’s Terry Draper interview from Swamp Manor
November 5th, 2013 § Comments Off on Klaatu’s Terry Draper interview from Swamp Manor § permalink
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.
Jack Kirkpatrick
November 4th, 2013 § Comments Off on Jack Kirkpatrick § permalink
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.
Burning the Ground – Duran Duran
October 31st, 2013 § Comments Off on Burning the Ground – Duran Duran § permalink
What a great experience it was to make this track! It is one of the best I have been privileged to work on!
The original phone call came from Nick Rhodes, who suggested that we get the 2″ master tapes from EMI, for all of Duran Duran’s hit songs, and then sample/record the vocal and instrumental hooks, and then use those hooks to make a catchy promo-song for their upcoming Decade CD (greatest hits)
At the time, we were recording the Liberty album with Chris Kimsey and Chris Potter at Olympic Studio in Barnes. I was sorely missed over at AIR Studios in Oxford Circus where Dee Long was holding fort. But we couldn’t have asked for a better project or client than Duran Duran, so we got the list from EMI and ordered the two inch tapes of all the hits, and Dee got to work over in Studio 5, sampling and setting up the sounds across the keyboard for us to jam with!
It’s fair to say that Dee did this in a most musical way, which helped me come up with the basic track, which then grew with the input of Nick, Simon, and then the awesome bass playing of John Taylor, who knew instantly what he had to do to bring the whole picture together and make the song and the track gel!
All we had to do after that was steal Chris Potter away from the Liberty sessions long enough to get it mixed! Voila!
Sterling Campbell and Warren Cuccurullo in last frames.
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Goodbye Lou.
October 27th, 2013 § Comments Off on Goodbye Lou. § permalink
Lou Reed left a deep mark on all who heard his music. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends. He had many sides to his great talent. I missed the Velvet Underground the first time, but Lou’s Transformer album was a huge hit at my junior high school in 1972!
I never met Lou, but I did help John Cale with his sample-sounds for their Songs For Drella album in 1989.
Lou singing to Drella:
With Duran Duran we did covers of Femme Fatale and Perfect Day for the Wedding and Thank You album’s.
Nick Rhodes posted this message about Lou Reed