Question to Jim Jones: "Why are you on so many of these recordings?" / Answer: "I had a car."

No, not this Jim Jones


This weirdo Jim Jones died 30 years ago


Sadly Jim Jones, Pere Ubu's guitarist, died this past February 26th. Pere Ubu is up there as one of my favorite avant garde rock groups (This heat, the fall, the pop group ... ) Jim Jones was a substantial impetus with Pere Ubu as well as with the rest of the Cleveland scene. Everything you find on the web about this guy says he had an extensive knowledge of music and got along with ev-er-y-bod-y. Mike Decapite wrote a nice post of Jim Jones on Ted Baron's blog here.



This is a pretty good interview detailing Jim Jones' thoughts on tenacity, Cleveland and Jackson Browne.:

"America was being Captain & Tennille'd, Jackson Browne'd and Silver Convention'd to death... and loving it! We admired experimental bands like Roxy Music and Germany's CAN. Our determination was to expand upon the rich areas pioneered by bands such as The Stooges, Velvet Underground, Capt. Beefheart, MC5 & Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd. Bands that NEVER got played on commercial radio. Music that aknowledged the presence of emotions other than those associated with teen love. Music of substance & mind. Music that existed for its own sake, on its own terms."



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MUSICMUSICMUSIC DOWLOAD

PERE UBU - MISS YOU

PERE UBU - DON'T WORRY

FOREIGN BODIES - EMERALD NECKLACE
Jim formed a two-man experimental rock group with Ubu roadie Pat Ryan. This song .... just takes me places and I want to listen to it forever and ever. I am not high.