Jon Carin


Jon Carin is an American musician, singer, songwriter and producer. He has collaborated with acts including Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, The Who, Pete Townshend, Eddie Vedder, Neil Finn, Kate Bush and Richard Butler.

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 1983, being followed by the album Stranger to Stranger.
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, where he first played with Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.
1984,1985,1986 saw him play on many artist’s albums including The Psychedelic Furs - Midnight to Midnight & Pretty in Pink soundtrack, Corey Hart, Escape Club and many others.
In 1985, Carin collaborated with Gilmour in the sessions for what would become Pink Floyd's album A Momentary Lapse of Reason. He received credit as a songwriter for co-writing "Learning to Fly, based on a song of his. He contributed the keyboards and drum track for that song and many others on the album." He participated in the support tour for the album, performing alongside returning keyboardist Richard Wright, and appeared on the 1988 Pink Floyd double live album, Delicate Sound of Thunder. In 1992, Carin participated in the recording of the soundtrack for La Carrera Panamericana. Two years later, in 1994, Carin contributed keyboards to Pink Floyd's album The Division Bell ''. He also participated on the Division Bell tour and was featured on the Pulse CD and DVD.
Carin performed with the Who, playing Quadrophenia in its entirety in 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 late 1990s and early 2000s, Carin was on tour with former Pink Floyd bassist, Roger Waters, for his In the Flesh tour.
In October 2001, Carin 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 keyboards, Lap Steel guitar & vocals 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.
Carin 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 and Greenpeace 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 co-dedicated to Carin's late father and Butler's late father.
On May 10, 2007, Carin was one of the performers at the Syd Barrett tribute concert, "Madcap's Last Laugh", at the Barbican Centre in London, performing with Roger Waters and – separately – the members of Pink Floyd as well as with Captain Sensible. Two months later, 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.
Carin performed with Roger Waters and Eddie Vedder for the "12/12/12" Hurricane Sandy benefit concert.
Carin 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.
He then contributed to David Gilmour’s Rattle That Lock'' album, playing keyboards in 2015. Carin performed with Gilmour on his Rattle That Lock World Tour 2015–16.
In Autumn 2016, he performed with Roger Waters on a short tour of Mexico, then at Desert Trip in Coachella.
In 2018, he completed the 157-show Us + Them Tour with Roger Waters.
Carin was on tour with Roger Waters' in 2022 and 2023 on his This Is Not a Drill tour, including the 2 London shows performing Waters’ reimagined The Dark Side of the Moon Redux.

Selected discography

Industry
  • State of the Nation
  • Stranger to Stranger
Pink Floyd
  • A Momentary Lapse of Reason
  • Learning to Fly
  • On The Turning Away
  • Delicate Sound of Thunder
  • Knebworth '90
  • La Carrera Panamericana
  • 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
  • The Later Years 1987–2019
  • Live At Knebworth 1990
Roger Waters
David Gilmour
  • Colours Of Infinity
  • Ruby Wax - Ruby Takes A Trip! - Soundtrack
  • Arthur C. Clarke - Fractals: The Colors of Infinity - Soundtrack
  • On an Island
  • Remember That Night: Live at Royal Albert Hall
  • Live in Gdańsk
  • Rattle That Lock
  • Live at Pompeii
Live Aid
Bryan Ferry || "Sensation"
"Boys and Girls"
"Slave to Love"
"Jealous Guy"
The Who
Pete Townshend
Kate Bush
  • Before the Dawn
  • Little Shrew - Animation
Richard Butler
  • Richard Butler
Trashmonk
  • Mona Lisa Overdrive
Dream Academy
  • A Different Kind of Weather
  • Somewhere in the Sun... Best of the Dream Academy
  • The Morning Lasted All Day: A Retrospective
Martha Wainwright
  • Martha Wainwright
Bryan Ferry
  • Boys and Girls
  • Live Aid
  • More Than This: The Best of Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music
  • Street Life: 20 Great Hits
Bryan Ferry with Roxy Music
  • The Ultimate Collection
Soul Asylum
The Psychedelic Furs
  • Midnight to Midnight
  • Pretty in Pink
  • All of This and Nothing
  • Made of Rain
Gipsy Kings
  • Compas
  • ¡Volaré! The Very Best of the Gipsy Kings
Live
  • Secret Samadhi
David Broza
Fields of the Nephilim
  • Elizium
Kashmir
  • The Good Life
Peter Perrett
  • How The West Was Won
Corey Feldman
  • ''Angelic 2 the Core''