All set, folks. I have uploaded all of the recordings, entered the lyrics into the database, uploaded album art, added the album to the jukebox playlists, etc. The only thing that isn't working currently is the big zip file with very large album art images for printing. It tak...
I have reached what seemed to be final mixes yesterday, but have since decided to rework the drum programs. The feedback that I have gotten thus far is good, but the thing that keeps coming up is realistic, but repetitive drum programs. Due to the nature of programmed drums, y...
I have spent the last couple of weeks recording and mixing a new album of new songs called SOUR GRAPES. The recordings utilize midi drums, bass, and keyboards with live guitars, vocals, and percussion. I am getting used to this new recording technique and tools. These recordin...
As you can see, the blog styles have not yet been updated with the new look from the main site, but it is coming soon. As with the MedinaLine.net site, the new design utilizes a more efficient menu bar image, so page load times should be decreased significantly. Also, there ar...
I have moved the old band page to http://medinaline.net/band/. http://medinaline.net is now up and running with a new visual scheme, running a parallel with http://thejamesmachine.com. The logo and buttons are still randomly generated images. There are 31 different image schem...
I received this great old suitcase as a gift to upgrade my digs. It looks like a coffin inside. So silky! It is not stinky in the least and only has a little stain in one of the corners. I think a hobo must have peed in there at some point thirty years ago or so. Back when thi...
I wrote another of my faux-poems last night, this one political in nature. That's not usually my MO. This one has taken off on Stumble Upon and has been delivered over 600 times in the last 18 hours or so. Nuts! Anyway, here you go. today we talked of politics,the way things a...
This conversational style,It's hard to get used to.I'm sitting on the edgeof the tubsmoking, drinking a cheapBelgian white,writing about what I'm doing.It's hardly poetic,as I'm hardly poetic,but it's all I can doto keep writing,but I doand that's something. That's everything....
Here is the latest in the ongoing pedal board suitcase evolution. I realized recently that some of the sounds I was going for, even with an array of four different distortions (two being amp-born) I still couldn't get that balls out thrash tone that I wanted from time to time....