John Jones News August 18, 1999

August 18,1999

David Leonard and JJ

My Times

This weeks Song of the Week is Dancing in the Moonlight.
It's a song about being fed up with life's trouble and strife and wanting to be with that special someone who takes you away from it all.
It was recorded around 1993 in Hammerwood, East Sussex, in the pool house.
The tape machine was a B16 16 track and it was mixed to a Panasonic DAT.
The Real Audio file was made in Pro Tools...
I was having a laugh with the "Rock and Roll" piano part. It reminded me of Kelly Jay and Crowbar...

We're into the finishing touches on Emily's mixes. Last week we did some final overdubs. We should be mastering by the end of August.

I'm opening for Emily at Genghis Cohen Cantina in Hollywood this Friday night, the 20th, at 8 PM.
It's a short 15 minute set. Please come out and see the show...!

I spent a few days at Star Struck Studio in Nashville mixing for Dan Hill with David Leonard.
The song was Seduces Me... Dan's version...it's a lot tougher than Celine's.
It was a great surprise to see David after so many years. We met in London in 1992 mixing songs for the Wedding Album. His unreleased mix of Ordinary World is still my favourite.
He mixed Drowning Man and None of the Above.
After the mix was completed Simon wanted to change the chorus lyrics in None of the Above.
We went back to Olympic and recalled David's vocal settings from his mix and layed the new vocals into David's Instrumental and Vocal only mixes and made the version on the album...
David is a brilliant engineer/mixer/producer/designer who has worked on more great records than just about anybody in the business. He did the latest Barenaked Ladies album...

For those of you who use a lot of patch chords...I took these pictures of David's patch bay at Star Struck - Wired

I came across this very elegant electric engine conversion of tonyc's Electric Porsche 914 .
My 914 usage fits the criteria Tony suggests to make a smog beater...

" By now, the annual congressional renewal of China's benefits is almost as much a rite of summer as the All-Star Game. Why pretend it is in doubt? Because this charade ultimately serves many interests. Members of Congress derive campaign contributions--and lobbyists, consultants and trade associations make money--by convincing American businesses that if they don't fork over huge sums, U.S. firms soon may lose forever the right to trade with China. And news organizations get to purvey a false atmosphere of suspense by suggesting conflict or impending doom. ."
Deny MFN to China? A Most Farcical Notion - Jim MannJuly 14,1999 LA Times