January 23rd, 2013 § Comments Off on History Sings § permalink
Yes, Hitler Has Only Got One Ball by john jones, is available now on iTunes!
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From the upcoming album History Sings, and based on the famous Colonel Bogey March.
During World War II, British school boys sang “Hitler Has Only Got One Ball”, in defiance of Nazi propaganda. Seventy years after Hitler’s death, his “long-lost medical notes seem to confirm that the Nazi leader suffered from cryptorchidism, or an undescended right testicle.”
January 18th, 2013 § Comments Off on Steve Ferrone drum solo 1983 § permalink
Live in Japan 1983 with George Duke:
January 18th, 2013 § Comments Off on F’ing Awesome § permalink
To anyone who is offended; I’m sorry.
But I really felt this way on the afternoon of Saturday August 10, 2002.
It was the last track on my black n white album of a few years ago. No auto tune!
Here it is on itunes – F’ing Awesome
It works nicely as ringtone, by the way. If you can find it!
January 14th, 2013 § Comments Off on Bathurst the band… § permalink
My nephew Jeff plays drums in a band from Toronto called Bathurst.
January 6th, 2013 § Comments Off on Farm Fur Rehearsal at Drumroll 2005 § permalink
Farm Fur rehearsal at Drumroll – Dean Deleo, Miles Joseph, Robert Deleo, Steve Ferrone, Brian Auger. A film clip by John Jones ©2005.
January 6th, 2013 § Comments Off on Computer Music International § permalink
Everybodys Business Fairlight C.M.I 1983
Amazing video story from 1983 about old friend and fellow Fairlight alumni Rob Yale’s awesome company!
January 5th, 2013 § Comments Off on An Early Fairlight Song § permalink
Well, it wasn’t easy, but I found an old track from ESP Studios in Buttonville.
A 1981 Fairlight song of mine. Full of all the cliche Fairlight samples, and my live Kawai piano accompaniment.
January 4th, 2013 § Comments Off on Our Last Fairlight § permalink
Sometime in early 1987 Dee and I were well and truly not enamored with the Fairlight CMI III.
John Jones and Dee Long. Studio 5 at AIR Studios Oxford Street London, UK
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 and Performer software, not the Fairlight. The stereo was out of phase on the Fairlight! Can you say £60 THOUSAND POUNDS!
Malcolm Atkin and John Burgess and Sir George Martin wanted the Series III in AIR Studios. It was a great selling point. We complied.
Gerry Stellard and Dee Long - Studio 5 - AIR Studios
By the time we were buying our third S900, Akai were at our door offering their latest design, the S1000, for the two of us to create a sample library for. And that’s when we knew we had to give up the Fairlight for good!
All we really wanted was our Series IIX back! Please!
So we sold our Series III to JJ Jeczalik of the Art of Noise. I wonder if he still has it?
January 4th, 2013 § Comments Off on My Fairlight CMI App § permalink
I can’t tell you how profound it feels to write a bar with Page R on my iPhone!
Many years ago I was very upset when we traded out IIX for a Series III…How could I ever have imagined this?
Holy s*@t!