Howard Jones

[cork]

Howard to reissue Warner albums?

"We are just finishing negotiations with Warner Bros. to license my albums back off them. So when that is sorted we plan to reissue everything!"
http://www.howardjones.com/forum.html

[weirdo]

nice to know, just hope they do a good job of remastering the albums and include many rare tracks on the 2nd cd's

[moni]

Yes i read that a few months ago great news[:)]

[omar]

Dream Into Action was re-issued in Japan a few years back i think . Don't know if it was remastered or not ? Anyway I'd like to see 2cd reissues with all the 12" mixes,b -sides and unreleased stuff if any.

[budaniel]

of course they are, because I JUST this week bought the 12" singles of Pearl in the Shell and Total Conditioning because they were the only 12" versions I didn't have in full because they're edited on the 12" remix CD. Hopefully they'll do a Thompson Twins treatment and give us two discs with everything from each album.

[pinkyblue82]

I could have used this news one week ago as I just finally broke down and bought the 12" Album CD on Ebay for $37. Lovely.

[omar]

I bought my cd of the 12' album at a used record store for $8.99. It was scratch free!!!

[budaniel]

that was a STEAL. That CD used to sell for over 100 dollars!!!

[pinkyblue82]

Thanks budaniel, I feel better. It's apparenty minty mint in every way. We'll see.

[roc51]

This is good news. Hope he can do a SIGHT & SOUND remastered singles collection with all the singles on disc 1 and the videos on the DVD. Maybe a special 2-CD/DVD set with the 2nd disc being the best of the remixes/rarities. That would be nice.

[ApolloZero]

Thomas Dolby blogged about his dream of Howard Jones

Last night I dreamed I hired Howard Jones for a keyboard session at a big studio (Abbey Rd? Real World?) We were getting ready for him and setting up all my old keyboards—the Fairlight, the PPG. I was worried because they had been in storage for so long. Someone came in and said ‘Howard’s juicers are here–where should be put them?’ (For some reason I knew his ‘juicers’ were not electric blenders, they were people to make his fruit juice.) I hooked up the PPG Wave 2.2 and played a chord. It was a long backwards sample that I could not make out. Then I looked at its little LED screen and all the text was back to front. At first I thought this was because its patches were garbled after all this time. Then I realised it does that when you play a backwards sample—it’s a little German in-joke.

Eventually Howard arrived. He was very friendly and looked great, in fact just like 1983. But we were both wearing identical green corduroy jackets. This was embarassing but being English neither of us felt able to mention it. Then I woke up.

[omar]

I read that too. Have Thomas and Howard ever recorded together? I think they performed together live once back in the 80s.

[Sean]

Funny how we always think about Thomas Dolby when we hear of Howard Jones and vice versa although I don't think they've ever collaborated on anything. As soon as I saw the Thomas Dolby cd/dvd release, I thought about HJ. Roc51 is right on with his post. Let's hope it happens.

[schwenko]

[quote][i]Originally posted by omar[/i]
<br>I read that too. Have Thomas and Howard ever recorded together? I think they performed together live once back in the 80s.
[/quote]

On a Grammy awards show? With Herbie Hancock? IIRC

[Seriousin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGzWqAc16l0