Jon Carin
American musician

Jon Carin

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21 October 1964(New York City, New York, U.S.A.)
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Jon Carin (born October 21, 1969) is a Grammy Award winning musician, singer, songwriter and producer who has been a longtime collaborator with the band Pink Floyd and the solo careers of David Gilmour and Roger Waters, The Who, Pete Townshend, Eddie Vedder, Kate Bush

Biography

As a teenager, Jon Carin started his professional musical career with the band Industry as their lead singer, keyboardist and songwriter. During his time with the band, they had a hit single with "State of the Nation" in 1982, being followed by the album Stranger to Stranger.

In 1982, 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, where he first played with Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.

That year, Carin would collaborate as a musician and writer on Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason album, being credited as a keyboardist and programmer. He is a co-writer of the song "Learning to Fly" from that album, their first hit song since the departure of Roger Waters. He then 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. Two years later, in 1994, Carin played most of the 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, which led 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, being produced by Carin.

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 performed with Pink Floyd at their reunion with Roger Waters on July 2, 2005, for Live 8 at Hyde Park. In 2005, a three-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 such organizations as Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and 4 Seasons of Hope for fundraising events, playing with Seal, Elvis Costello, the Chieftains, Spinal Tap, and many others.

In 2006, Carin worked on the self-titled solo album by The Psychedelic Furs' frontman Richard Butler. He wrote, arranged and played all of the instrumental parts, as well as producing and engineering the album. The album was dedicated to Carin's father.

Carin performed on keyboards, guitar and lead vocals with Roger Waters at the Live Earth 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 has also programmed the sounds for The Rascals reunion shows in Port Chester, New York, the Capitol Theatre in December 2012.

Carin performed with Roger Waters and Eddie Vedder for the "12/12/12" Hurricane Sandy benefit concert.

He performed with Roger Waters tour "The Wall 2010–2013 Live" on keyboards, guitars, lap steel, and programming.

In 2014, Carin performed in Kate Bush's Before the Dawn concert series at Hammersmith Apollo, her first live shows in 35 years.

Carin performed with David Gilmour on his Rattle That Lock World Tour 2015–16.

In 2016, he performed with Roger Waters on a short tour of Mexico, then at Desert Trip in Coachella.

He is currently on tour with Roger Waters on his Us & Them world tour.

Selected discography

Industry

  • State of the Nation (EP)
  • Stranger to Stranger.

Pink Floyd

  • A Momentary Lapse of Reason
  • Learning to Fly (Pink Floyd song)
  • Delicate Sound of Thunder
  • Knebworth '90
  • La Carrera Panamericana (soundtrack for the film)
  • Shine On
  • The Division Bell
  • Pulse
  • Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd
  • Oh, By The Way
  • The Best of Pink Floyd: A Foot in the Door
  • The Division Bell 20th Anniversary Box Set*
  • The Endless River

Roger Waters

  • In the Flesh Live
  • Flickering Flame: The Solo Years Vol. 1
  • Live Earth
  • 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief
  • Roger Waters the Wall

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
  • Rattle That Lock

The Who

  • The Concert for New York City [Disc 2, tracks 2–4] (2001)
  • Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who [Track 14] (2008)
  • Tommy and Quadrophenia Live

Pete Townshend

  • A Benefit for Maryville Academy
  • Lifehouse

Kate Bush

  • Before the Dawn (Kate Bush concert series)

Richard Butler

  • Richard Butler

Trashmonk

  • Mona Lisa Overdrive

Dream Academy

  • A Different Kind of Weather
  • Somewhere in the Sun... Best of the Dream Academy

Martha Wainwright

  • 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

  • Compas

David Broza

  • Night Dawn, The Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Zandt

Fields of the Nephilim

  • Elizium

Kashmir

  • The Good Life

Peter Perrett

  • How The West Was Won

Corey Feldman

  • "Angelic 2 the Core"