John Jones Music

By April 6, 1994, Alan and I were heading to the Record Plant to start mixing his solo album, “Hold On.”

What a great performance by Alan Frew and band of Hold On, performing at Canadian Music Week 1995 Alan Frew – lead vocal Anthony Vanderburg – guitars Sam Reid – keyboards Rique Franks – backing vocals Kojo Ferguson – bass, backing vocals Mark Kelso – drums

A photo from the 90s with Anthony Vanderburgh, Steve Churchyard, Alan Frew, Mick Fleetwood and John Jones at the Record Plant, Los Angeles, working on Alan’s Hold On album.  

January 1995 in my treehouse in the Hollywood Dell, rehearsing for the Alan Frew House of Blues gig with Fleetwood Mac.

Thanks to the kindness of Ken Roberts we are able to visit the past and watch Alan, Anthony Vanderburgh, Richard Martinez and Dr Who, rehearse the Frew/Reid composition HOLD ON, in the Mondrian dressing room for the Fleetwood Mac shows at the House of Blues, Los Angeles, in January 1995.

With a wink and a nod, no doubt to escape the winter storms in the East, Alan Frew paid a visit to sunny California. Of course, it was also Grammy week, and Alan was here in Los Angeles connecting with Canadians and other aliens of extraordinary ability for a bit of musical mash. It’s been […]

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 started out as my 1992 Valentines day song, written in Paris, asking for forgiveness for being a man. It didn’t work. And the brilliant Alan Frew/Glass Tiger recording with Steve Ferrone, Justin Clayton and Chris Garcia, recorded in the Dell, and at the Record Plant, Hollywood, and mixed on the Neve, and a flock […]

Songs I wrote and recorded, from the final weeks of Wedding album production, through Alan Frew’s Hold On (recorded in L.A.), and DD’s Thank You (Battersea, Antibes, Los Angeles), that take me back to those days when I was commuting between Hammerwood and Battersea. They are a warm reminder of how much Simon, Nick, John, […]

From Rational Youth’s #1 Song; Bang On, from 1985, to the first “million downloaded song on the internet,” by Emily Richards in 2000, John Jones has produced, co-produced, engineered, programmed, mixed, performed, written, and or, made tea for, some very important people. Rational Youth – Duran Duran – Alan Frew/Glass Tiger – John Jones – […]