I had a brilliant (with quotey marks in the air) idea for a series of blog posts today. I will be breaking down a song to its basest form, documented by recordings made along the way, along with lyrics changes. The latter doesn't happen very often; most of the time it is just...
Over the Christmas break, my car, a 1993 Mazda MX-6 V6 broke down at my parents' house. The distributor was failing. We replaced the igniter, coil, distributor cap, & rotor with still no spark. Eventually, replacing the pickup got it back up and running. Total cost: about $500...
I went over to Tom's house last night to jam on drums with some of his friends. I had a great time. I haven't played drums in a long time, sadly. Most of the time, when I do play, it is just for recording purposes. I haven't sat down with other musicians in a long time. The ja...
I have made significant progress on integrating this WordPress blog script into the site. I just canceled my blogspot account. There are categories now, for those who may not find web development interesting, but like to hear about recording... or... because I wanted to catego...
I found out yesterday, near the end of the day that I actually had today off and the office was closed for New Years. Sweet. Merry New Year! I have been working this morning, transferring my blogspot account over to this locally installed and controlled WordPress script. Open...
It's funny how quickly I lose interest in the things I commit to. Not just a blog that no one will read, but a massive recording project that no one will listen to, relationships that fall from the clouds, exercise, smoking cessation... This was the first day of my vacation. I...
I spent all day yesterday working on a new old web site. I registered thejamesmachine.com. My first web site, years ago, was jamesmosheen.com. I let that die and registered medinaline.net and medinaline.com. Medina Line has been my personal site for years now, where photos, mu...
Another of my 'hobbies' is web authoring. I dare say 'design'. That's the part I suck at. Always function before form. I know how to do some cool little things and have spent way to much time figuring out ways of managing large amounts of data... My website, medinaline.net uti...
OK, so this is the latest in my ongoing quest to make my beautiful old Alvarez Strat copy stay in tune. It started in 1996, I purchased the Alvarez "Classic" sunburst guitar for $136 in a music shop in Greensburg, PA. I forget what the place is called. They had to custom order...
It has been a while since I successfully completed a song I was working on. Over the weekend, I tried a little experiment. I set up my drum mosheen, amp, and 8 track recorder and cut loose. I programmed a drum beat, played guitar, hit record and played some more. Stopped the r...