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In the studio recording a lead vocal.

Project 11 production set up

A brief update on our progress on project 11. I give many thanks from the bottom of my heart to lord above and the kind and generous people who have made this possible

The last track on "Standing on the One". This song is an anthem that speaks of the decay of our great nation and the morality of the world as a whole. I felt then as I do now. By trying to fix our lives, the powers that be have enslaved the human race. It's a serious song and so Bill Wolfer was serious about creating the right approach to the song. He arranged a string section that was remnant ...

Carrie Lucas was the wife of Dick Griffy at Solar Records. She was also a fellow label mate dance music artist. She was a gifted songwriter and gave me the song "It's True" for my debut Solar/Constellation release "Standing on the One". "It's True" is one of my all-time favorite songs still today. She had recently released new music and I wanted to show my appreciation to her. She is one of the...

I had a request once by someone for the exact chords to Possessed By Love and how they were played on the recording, so I made this little tutorial. It's real simple, however, sometimes my self-taught approach and timing can be elusive. Enjoy!

So In Love with You. This song was written by the late, great Clifford Coulter - th-cam.com/video/MsxTfnp1Zzc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=_PwTM752G6lD-OQo - A dear friend of mine. Clifford was dear to me and a man who recognized my talent and helped me to make my first demo that landed me a record deal with Solar Records. He was a former Colunbia Records recording artist who started out playing guitar for Bi...

I was fresh out of the ARMY from Germany and playing the chit land circut in Eastside San Jose when I met the great Clifford Coulter. Coulter was a former Columbia Records recording artist. He started out playing guitar for Bill Withers but switched to keyboards to write songs and become a solo artist. Clifford was a brilliant player and the epidemy of East Bay Grease. He saw my talent and took...

"Are You Gonna Stay With Again", was born years before my deal with Solar Records. It was the first song I created on a sequencer. My friend in San Francisco, Gordan Smith, who would later become the synth player in my band JG & the Ride, taught me how to use a sequencer. I was 19 years old. It was during my time with Gordon that I would create a demo for this song which was on my artist demo t...

Producer Bill Wolfer wanted to make sure that there was some diversity in the songs of Standing On The One. So he settled on a pop song written by Marvin Morrow and Stephen Geyer. I wasn't used to recording other people's songs but I was not in charge so I did my best with it on the fly and it turned out pretty good. Especialy with, once again, the drumming of Rufus drummer John Robinson and gr...

The Standing on the One demo didn't quite go over so well with Solar President Dick Griffey. There was just something about the song that he didn't seem to like but, I don't think he could pinpoint then exactly what it was that he didn't like about the song. Fortunately, for me Jody Watley from Shalamar burst into the room near the end of the demo dancing and shouting "Heyyyy! What's that? That...

She Told me so was a co-write with Bill Wolfer. He was my 1st producer and so, I wrote lyrics that fit with what he had in mind for the song. He was a brilliant keyboardist having worked with The Jacksons, and Michael Jackson as well as programming synths for Stevie Wonder. His most notable work with Stevie was his programming of Stevie's large Moog, most likely the Moog system 35 for the strin...

We cut the entire Standing On the One album at Allen Zentz Studios in Hollywood. Allen Zentz had all Telefunken equipment, another name for super uber German engineered machines. I walked into the studio with my father for a session and Rick James was there. I had to get past him in the lobby to get to Studio B. He was mastering the Bustin' Out track. The mastering lab was adjacent to the lobby...

During the Wolf Project, Bill asked me if I'd sing a lead on a song that his wife wrote the lyrics for. called "Why Do You Do Me? I said of coarse and after working out some melody bugs, and creating a vamp vocal on the fly, the song was completed, I was on my way back to sleeping on my Dad's and wait for the phone to ring about my deal with Solar. The plane tickets seemed to come before the ph...

Jon Gibson So Shy

Jon Gibson - Wake Up

Jon Gibson sings Stevie Wonder's Overjoyed

Jon Gibson - Ready Gone (band rehearsal)

Jon Gibson - Interview in the studio

Jon Gibson - The Storyteller Preview

Amazing Grace Jazz Arrangement (Bernard Wright & Jon Gibson).wmv

Jon Gibson - Everybody Sing a Christmas Song