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Nov 13, 2023 · Watch and listen as Jim Pons gives first-hand accounts of playing bass with the Turtles and Frank Zappa before working his way up the ladder with the New Yor...
The band in 1968. From left: Jim Pons, Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman, Al Nichol, John Barbata. "Sound Asleep" and "The Story of Rock and Roll", the first two singles in 1968, stalled somewhere in the middle of the top 100. The band's fortunes changed when Chip Douglas returned to work with them in the studio.
Nov 13, 2023 · Jim Pons is a bassist, singer and author. In the ‘60s, he founded The Leaves, a very successful band in California, after which he served as bass player for the Turtles, from 1967 to 1970. Jim also played with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, including that fateful night in Montreux, Switzerland, when, during the band’s performance ...
Mar 26, 2017 · This presented a new challenge for Jim as he was a self-taught musician, and Zappa wrote complex “avant garde” music in the style of the great classical composers he loved. Jim adapted, and Frank even sang “Hey Pons” on “Flower Punk,” the Mothers’ version of “Hey Joe.” Pons played the part of God in “Billy the Mountain.”
Jim Pons Follow Artist + While he's hardly a well-known figure (though he did play on some hit records), Jim Pons' career is a reflection of the changes undergone by Los Angeles rock itself in the 1960s and early '70s, taking…
Feb 29, 2016 · After some asking around, my friend John Cody offered to connect me to Jim Pons, who is a wonderful example of this kind of career transition. Jim is a bass player and vocalist, and was part of three major bands in the 1960s and early 1970s – the Leaves, the Turtles, and the Mothers of Invention.
Mar 11, 2016 · Interview with Jim Pons March 11, 2016 March 13, 2016 / Fiona McQuarrie I interviewed Jim Pons – bass player/vocalist with the Leaves, the Turtles, and the Mothers of Invention – for my blog All About Work .
