Jon Carin
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Background information | |
Genres | Pop Rock Alternative |
Years active | 1981–present |
Website | Official website |
Jon Carin (born October 21, 1964, in New York City, New York) is a producer, artist and musician best known for his association with Pink Floyd, and more specifically its guitarist David Gilmour and former member Roger Waters over the last twenty five years. In the early eighties, he gained fame as the front-man for the band Industry. During his time with Industry, the band had a breakthrough single "State of the Nation" in 1983 and was followed by the successful album Stranger to Stranger.
Jon Carin is ranked #38 on Digital Dreamdoor's list of "100 Greatest Rock Keyboardists of All Time."[1]
Biography
Carin was born in New York, As a teenager, Jon Carin started his professional musical career for the band Industry as their lead singer, keyboardist, and writer. In 1983, he was asked by Industry's producer Rhett Davies to work with Bryan Ferry for his Boys and Girls album. Later in 1985, he joined Bryan Ferry at Live Aid to perform and met Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.
That year, Jon Carin would collaborate as musician and writer for Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason album as a keyboardist and programmer. He is a writer for hit song "Learning to Fly" from that album, their first hit song since the departure of Roger Waters. He participated in the support tour for the album and appeared on the 1988 Pink Floyd double live album, Delicate Sound of Thunder. In 1992, Carin participated for the recording of the soundtrack for La Carrera Panamericana. In 1994, Jon Carin played keyboards, synthesizers, arranged and programmed for Pink Floyd's The Division Bell album. He also participated on The Division Bell support tour and was featured on the Pulse CD and DVD.
Carin performed with The Who, playing Quadrophenia in its entirety in the summer of 1996, at London's Hyde Park; this led on to an extensive tour throughout much of 1996/97. On August 16, 1998 he produced and played keyboards and drums for Pete Townshend for a concert to raise money for the Maryville Academy. In 1999, a CD of this concert was released that Carin produced.
Throughout the summers of the late 1990s and early 2000s, he was on tour with former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters for his In the Flesh tour. This makes him one of few musicians who has played with both Roger Waters and Pink Floyd after Waters' departure from the band. In October 2001, he performed with The Who at The Concert for New York City, a tribute concert to the lives lost on September 11. In January 2002, a recording of the tribute was released on CD and DVD.
He was with Pink Floyd at their reunion with Roger Waters on July 2, 2005 for Live 8 at Hyde Park. In 2005, A 3-disc DVD recording of The Who's 1996 performance of Quadrophenia was released. He played with David Gilmour in the 2006 tour in support of On an Island. From June 2006, he played on Roger Waters The Dark Side of the Moon Live tour, with dates in 2007 and 2008.
Carin has worked with Amnesty International, Greenpeace, 4 Seasons of Hope for fundraising events playing with Seal, Elvis Costello, The Chieftains, Spinal Tap, and many others.
He produced, wrote and arranged The Psychedelic Furs frontman Richard Butler's 2006 solo album called Richard Butler on Koch Records that was dedicated to his father, Dr. Arthur A. Carin. Carin played all of the instruments on the album, and produced and engineered the album as well.
Carin performed on keyboards, guitar and lead vocals with Roger Waters at the "Live Earth: The Concert for a Climate in Crisis" event on July 7, 2007 at Giants Stadium in New Jersey. He was also one of the performers on the Syd Barrett Tribute at the Barbican in London, performing with Roger Waters, the members of Pink Floyd (billed as Rick Wright, David Gilmour and Nick Mason) and Captain Sensible.
He is currently on tour with Roger Waters performing The Wall Live on keyboards, guitars and Lap Steel.
Selected discography
Industry
- State of the Nation (EP)
- Stranger to Stranger
Pink Floyd
- A Momentary Lapse of Reason
- Delicate Sound of Thunder
- Knebworth '90
- La Carrera Panamericana (soundtrack for the film)
- Shine On
- The Division Bell
- P*U*L*S*E
- Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd
- Oh, By The Way
Roger Waters
David Gilmour
- On an Island (Bonus DVD with AOL Sessions and Albert Hall footage)
- Remember That Night: Live at Royal Albert Hall (DVD)
- Live in Gdańsk
The Who
- The Concert for New York City [Disc 2, tracks 2–4] (2001)
- Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who [Track 14] (2008)
Pete Townshend
Richard Butler
Trashmonk
Dream Academy
Martha Wainwright
Bryan Ferry
- Boys and Girls
- Live Aid
- More Than This: the Best of Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music
Soul Asylum
- Candy From A Stranger
- Black Gold: The Best of Soul Asylum
The Psychedelic Furs
- Midnight To Midnight
- Pretty In Pink
- All Of This And Nothing
Gipsy Kings
David Broza
- Night Dawn, The Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Zandt
Taylor Barton
- Spiritual Gangster
Fields of the Nephilim
Kashmir
References
- ^ "100 Greatest Rock Keyboardists of All Time". digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com. NA. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
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