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Jon Monday (born 1947 in San Jose, California) is an American producer and distributor of CDs and DVDs across an eclectic range of material such as Swami Prabhavananda, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Huston Smith, Chalmers Johnson, and Charles Bukowski. Monday directed and co-produced with Jennifer Douglas the feature-length documentary ''Save KLSD: Media Consolidation and Local Radio''.〔(IMDB Entry for Save KLSD )〕 He is also President of Benchmark Recordings, which owns and distributes the early catalog of The Fabulous Thunderbirds CDs and a live recording of Mike Bloomfield. ==Career== Monday got his start in multimedia through his own psychedelic light-show company in the Bay Area in the sixties, providing visuals for concerts by Country Joe and the Fish, Janis Joplin's Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Steve Miller's Blues Band at local Berkeley, California venues and The Fillmore in San Francisco. In 1970, Monday was hired by John Fahey at Takoma Records in Santa Monica, becoming promotion director in 1975, and later general manager. working with guitar artists such as Leo Kottke, John Fahey, Mike Bloomfield, and Peter Lang. Eventually, he became Takoma's Vice President and General Manager, and also provided art direction, engineering, and/or produced albums by such artists as George Winston, Norman Blake,〔(AllMusic.com Norman Blake )〕 Peter Rowan,〔(Allmusic.com Peter Rowan )〕 Jim Kweskin,〔(AllMusic.com Jim Kwesken )〕 Maria Muldaur,〔(AllMusic.com Maria Muldaur )〕 Loudon Wainwright III,〔(AllMusic.com Laudon Wainwright )〕 and Joseph Byrd.〔(AllMusic.com Joseph Byrd )〕 In 1979, Fahey sold Takoma Records to a new company formed by music business attorney Bill Coben, veteran producer/manager Denny Bruce, and Chrysalis Records. Monday continued with the new company as General Manager.〔(Billboard Magazine June 2, 1979 )〕 During that time, Takoma signed and released albums by The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Canned Heat, and T-Bone Burnett. In 1982, Monday was appointed sales manager for Chrysalis Visual Programming Division, headquartered in Los Angeles. Eventually Monday was brought into Chrysalis Records as its Director of Marketing,〔(Billboard Magazine Dec. 11, 1982 )〕 working with Blondie, Jethro Tull, Huey Lewis, Pat Benatar, Billy Idol, and Toni Basil.〔(Allmusic.com Bio )〕 In 1984, Monday relocated to Silicon Valley and had a 2nd career as an executive in various software and high-tech companies. He also held senior management positions or consulted with major 3rd party video game publishers, such as Epyx, Eidos Interactive, and Capcom. He was also Vice President of PlayNet, working with founder Nolan Bushnell. Monday was co-founder (with music research pioneer Larry Heller) and president of MusicWriter Inc., a Californian company that developed the NoteStation, a point-of-sale kiosk for printing sheet music for sale to customers in music stores.〔(Billboard Magazine May 7, 1994 )〕 In addition to printing sheet music, the NoteStation was able to produce MIDI disks containing selected music. In 1994, NoteStation kiosks were in 175 stores in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Monday retired and moved to the San Diego area in 2004 and launched two labels:〔Fallbrook Village News, June 2, 2005, Page B-13〕 mondayMEDIA and GemsTone; producing, directing, and distributing original and archival material. In 2006 Monday brought together many notable recording artists and produced ''The Revenge of Blind Joe Death: The John Fahey Tribute Album'', which was released on the Takoma Records label, distributed by Fantasy Records. Participating artists included, George Winston, Michael Gulezian, Alex de Grassi, Country Joe McDonald, Peter Lang, Stefan Grossman, Rick Ruskin, and Canned Fish (a one-time collaboration between Canned Heat members Adolfo de la Parra ("Fito") and Larry Taylor, and Country Joe and the Fish member Barry "The Fish" Melton).〔(Allmusic.com Fahey Tribute Album )〕 In 2012 Monday released the feature-length documentary ''Save KLSD: Media Consolidation and Radio'' and is currently working on an authorized biographical documentary about the life, career, and impact of world religions scholar Huston Smith. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jon Monday」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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