{"id":636,"date":"2010-11-09T21:19:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T21:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2010-11-09T21:19:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T21:19:20","slug":"howard-jones-the-howard-jones-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Howard Jones? THE Howard Jones? (part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I followed <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/?p=455\">Howard Jones&#8217; invitation to join his show at Indigo2 in London<\/a>. During this special concert he was supposed to play all 24 (!) songs of his first two albums &#8220;Humans Lib&#8221; and &#8220;Dream Into Action&#8221;. Some of these songs he had even never played before. Saturday night my wife and me went to the O2 arena and really: 2 V.I.P. tickets had been deposed at the box office. With these V.I.P. passes we were previleged to listen to a moderated sound check where Howard explained his gear, basically a Jupiter 8 and a Roland G8. He apologized that his Juno 60 disintegrated over the years. He even explained the story of the Simmons pads from &#8220;his friend Wolfgang from Germany&#8221; :-))))))<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20101106_howardjones2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I met Steve Watts in the audience, a former Simmons employee. We had some amicable email conversation before and I recognized him from his Simmons jacket. It is absolutely fantastic when nice online relationships become &#8220;real persons&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The concert itself was superb. Howard was accompanied by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonathan_Atkinson\">Jonathan Atkinson<\/a> on drums (Roland TD-20 plus the two Simmons pads) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/robbiebronnimann\">Robbie Bronnimann<\/a> who controlled Howard&#8217;s vocal effects, master of the midi environment and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ableton.com\">Ableton<\/a>. The sound was the best I have heard for a long long time. The venue was ideal, the sound programming, synths, TD-20, FX, everything was programmed with love and passion. Not to forget the songs which still worked after almost 3 decades. The show was rounded off by a multi media LCD show which run syncronous to the music. A very special experience.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20101106_howardjones1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the concert we had access to the after show party for the meet and greet, but on the one hand we were tired and strung out by two and a half hours of standing, on the other hand about 150 hungry fans were waiting for a picture with the main artist so rather I preferred to wait for another occasion instead of an unpersonal handshake in passing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20101106_howardjones3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I followed Howard Jones&#8217; invitation to join his show at Indigo2 in London. During this special concert he was supposed to play all 24 (!) songs of his first two albums &#8220;Humans Lib&#8221; and &#8220;Dream Into Action&#8221;. Some of these songs he had even never played before. Saturday night my wife and me went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}