LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 27, 2019…HAPPY SEVENTY FIFTH BIRTHDAY TO GUITARIST AND PRODUCER MICK JONES. JONES IS BEST KNOWN AS THE LEAD GUITARIST AND CO-FOUNDER OF FOREIGNER. IN 1976 HE FORMED FOREIGNER WITH IAN MCDONALD AND RECRUITED SINGER LOU GRAM FOR THE GROUP. JONES CO-PRODUCED ALL OF THE BAND’S ALBUMS AND CO-WROTE MOST OF THE SONGS WITH LOU GRAMM. JONES IS THE ONLY REMAINING FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE GROUP AND IS THE ONLY PERSON TO PLAY ON EVERY SINGLE OF THE BAND’S ALBUMS. PRIOR TO FOREIGNER, JONES WAS A MEMBER OF ‘SPOOKY TOOTH’ AND WAS A MUCH IN DEMAND SESSION PLAYER PLAYING WITH THE ‘LESLIE WEST BAND’ AND APPEARING ON RECORDS FOR PETER FRAMPTON AND GEORGE HARRISON. JONES ALSO PRODUCED ALBUMS FOR OTHER GROUPS, INCLUDING VAN HALEN’S ‘5150’ BAD COMPANY’S ‘FAME AND FORTUNE’ BILLY JOEL’S ‘STORM FRONT’ AND THE CULT’S ‘BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL.’
THIS IS GREAT VIDEO FROM A 1981 TELEVISED CONCERT IN GERMANY(FANTASTIC QUALITY)
photo thanks-Magnus Rönnstedt
