Spotlight – Darrell Nutt

Spotlight on the wonderfully talented musicians who performed on The Jones Thing’s upcoming album “Ephemeral Oddities”

Darrell Nutt – drums and percussion
Fort Myers, Florida – drummer and producer and so much more

After I had assembled enough demos that I wanted to flesh out, I started looking for a drummer who could record his own tracks. I spent about 3 weeks reviewing over 50 drummers – they had to be top-notch, because to me, the drums are the most important part of any song to me. Without the rhythm and the groove you’ve got nothing. The difficulty was finding someone who could play all sorts of styles, while having a keen ear for the songs themselves. Some could swing but not rock, others could jam but anything other than 4/4 time signatures sounded off. I finally found Darrell and just threw him all of the unfinished demos and said have at it, do your thing. Within a week I had tons of drums, expertly tracked. Songs like ‘Theme for a Buddy Detective Show’ really show of his chops while ‘Paper Taken by the Wind’ highlight his originality and creativity. He can do it all and do it perfect while writing parts for the sake of the song.

Learn more about the bad-assness that is Darrell Nut
https://www.defmediagroup.com/bio

and check out his band, The Moots – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymhR_oN0-9E&list=PLdPGBpt3RC_QT0wWCX6TzI3SaD-sA5GH-

Spotlight – The Legendary Rich Gilbert

Spotlight on the wonderfully talented musicians who performed on The Jones Thing’s upcoming album “Ephemeral Oddities”

The Legendary Rich Gilbert – Electric Guitar on ‘Awakend from Cryosleep’, ‘What God Believes’, ‘The High Life’ and ‘The Subconcious Disease’
Pedal Steel on ‘Big Bag’ and ‘The Subconcious Disease’
Nashville, TN

As I was starting to flesh out parts to several of the songs I said to myself, “These really call for a Rich Gilbert guitar part” like on those Frank Black and the Catholic albums. Raw and etherial at the same time. And after a few failed attempts to find someone who understood what I wanted, I thought, “I wonder if Rich himself would be interested.” Sure enough, he offered to record on his website and I reached out to him. In a few weeks I had tons of guitars for each of the five tunes I thought could use his magic. I quickly arranged and edited a few of the tracks, but on many of the songs, I couldn’t bear to lose even one of the tracks he recorded. His understanding, brilliance and strong playing are just amazing and I couldn’t be happier with the result.

Learn more about the Legendary Rich Gilbert and buy all of his albums here:
https://www.thelegendaryrichgilbert.com/

Spotlight – Steven Cracknell

Spotlight on the wonderfully talented musicians who performed on The Jones Thing’s upcoming album “Ephemeral Oddities”

Steven Cracknell – trumpet and trombones on “Intro Wankery” and “The Hapless Oaf”
Leicester, England – musician and producer

I recruited and compensated several different brass players but couldn’t get the right bouncy/happy vibe until I found Steven. He suggested adding trumpets on top of trombones to give each tune a little more sparkle.

Hire Steven directly –
https://soundbetter.com/profiles/57073-golden-mile-studio

Spotlight – Matthew Fry

Spotlight on the wonderfully talented musicians who performed on The Jones Thing’s upcoming album “Ephemeral Oddities”

Matthew Fry – electric bass guitar
South Wales – bassist, songwriter

My timing is shit these days and the bass guitar is my favorite and most important instrument next to drums. I really needed someone who could take a lot of melodic and interesting parts and play them the way they were intended. Matthew can really do it all, never over-playing but always right there and perfect. He played all sorts of bass guitars on the album, on a majority of the tracks.

Learn more about Matthew here
https://www.matthewfrybass.com/

Spotlight – Max Eider

Spotlight on the wonderfully talented musicians who performed on The Jones Thing’s upcoming album “Ephemeral Oddities”

Max Eider – guitar solo on “The Hapless Oaf”
England – guitarist and songwriter

As mentioned in a previous post, Max was one of my favorite musicians growing up, performing solo and as part of The Jazz Butcher with other notables like David J of Bauhaus. His incredible playing is something to behold, but his songs, humor and personality are what set him apart. I contacted him on a ‘I wonder if it would be at all possible to have one of my heroes play’ whim and yes he agreed – providing a solo that sound like it was intended to be there from the beginning.

View some of his new solo videos –
https://www.youtube.com/user/tundraducks/videos

Visit Max’s website to learn more about him
http://www.maxeider.com/

And go purchase his entire catalog right now!
https://tundraducks.bandcamp.com/

William Jacobsen

Spotlight – William Jacobsen

Spotlight on the wonderfully talented musicians who performed on The Jones Thing’s upcoming album “Ephemeral Oddities”

William Jacobsen – guitar solo on “Dance Her Way to Hell (1984 Mix)”
Norwegian guitarist and composer

The last/bonus track on the album is a parody of mid-eighties pop hits. Overtly synthesized everything with repetitive programmed drums, I felt like I needed at least one real musician to perform an Eddie Van Halen-esque solo. William took it seriously and created the perfect solo adding insane shreddy-ness at the very end of his part.

Check out his guitar solo cover of Avenged Sevenfold’s “Natural Born Killer”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqgjT8vM-24