John Jones Music

The Morrison Hotel sure know how to throw a great party! It was unbelievable to see so many old friends at the Sunset Marquis! There were hundreds of guests in the Gallery, the bar, around the pool, and in every walkway of the famed Rock and Roll hotel. Many more photos of the guests are at […]

I went to Alan Sides’ Oceanway Recording Studios in Hollywood last week to listen to some Jack Puig mixes for the new Tetsuya Komuro album that Nick Wood is producing. We also dropped off a new track that we are producing for Nick’s upcoming solo album. Jack’s room is full of amazing gear: Many years […]

EMI Canada has remastered Glass Tiger’s hits from the 1980s along with Alan Frew’s from the 90s for a new release; Then ..NOW ..Next The album includes two songs I produced in Hollywood with Alan in 1994; Healing Hands (with Micky Dolenz), and So Blind (written by me & Alan). Both songs were on Alan’s solo […]

It was really cool walking into the great old Hollywood studio where the Beach Boys recorded part of Pet Sounds, and where we recorded Fleetwood Mac tracks in the 1990’s. I really loved recording the drums for These Strange Times with Ken Allardyce many moons ago in this room. A couple of weeks ago we had […]

Fleetwood Mac

What can I say? I had to have something to follow Bang On. I wrote this song to John Lennon at Christmas 1999. It was hard to believe that it had been 19 years since his murder. The recording arrangement and dynamic of Dear John were based on Mick Fleetwood’s drum track. He was playing […]

John Jones, ‘JJ’, is a musician, programmer, songwriter, composer, arranger, sound engineer, producer, and recording artist, known for working with Duran Duran, Celine Dion, Dan Hill, Alan Frew, Fleetwood Mac, Stephen Steve Ferrone, Dee Long, Emily Richards, Sir George Martin, and many others. This is the planet log (plog) of john jones music. All opinions […]