Jon Monday

Jon Mon is a music market body most noted for his association with progressive folk guitarist John Fahey’s separate Takoma label. Mon got his begin in the business enterprise by owning a light firm in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Region, servicing major serves on the Fillmore Auditorium and around the neighborhood scene. He transferred down the coastline to Venice in 1970, where he had taken employment as the offers supervisor at Takoma. Over time, he became the label’s general supervisor, taking charge of the roster that included folk and blues performers like Fahey, Leo Kottke, Mike Bloomfield, and Canned High temperature. Monday also offered as a manufacturer, engineer, and record art director every once in awhile, working with performers like Fahey, Jim Kweskin, Maria Muldaur, and Loudon Wainwright III, amongst others. In 1979, Fahey marketed Takoma to the bigger Chrysalis label, and 2 yrs later Mon was marketed to movie director of advertising at Chrysalis, where he oversaw mainstream successes like Blondie, Toni Basil, Billy Idol, and Pat Benatar. Pursuing his stint at Chrysalis, Mon worked for many software businesses, and launched a fresh business in the ’90s known as MusicWriter, which provided sheet music and MIDI data files on the market via electronic shop kiosks.