#9 HOWARD JONES DREAM
Mar. 20th, 2010 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogAnd now, Thomas Dolby – whom you may remember from the 1980s – relays possibly the greatest celebrity dream ever:
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.
FUN FACT: These days, Dolby is also a high-tech businessman. He’s founded a number of start-ups like Beatnik, which makes audio engines for mobile devices (which is what makes the MP3s on yr mobile phone sound decent) I know this because the magazine I work for covers stuff like this. I’m hoping this will someday enable me to actually meet him.
If not, I’ll settle for Dave Dederer of The Presidents Of The United States Of America (whom you may remember from the 1990s) – he's vice president of business development at Melodeo, which runs a mobile music service called nuTsie.
Dream on,
This is dF
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.
FUN FACT: These days, Dolby is also a high-tech businessman. He’s founded a number of start-ups like Beatnik, which makes audio engines for mobile devices (which is what makes the MP3s on yr mobile phone sound decent) I know this because the magazine I work for covers stuff like this. I’m hoping this will someday enable me to actually meet him.
If not, I’ll settle for Dave Dederer of The Presidents Of The United States Of America (whom you may remember from the 1990s) – he's vice president of business development at Melodeo, which runs a mobile music service called nuTsie.
Dream on,
This is dF
