Back in 1995, I was living in Tucson, AZ and working in a record store. The "senior" staff there had control of what music was played over the sound system and, aside from a number of industrial dance beat shifts a week, it was a great place to be forcibly introduced to new mu...
I mentioned my next project on Facebook a little while ago, so I decided to post an update here about it. Chad Hildebran, Asheville's premiere open mic stand up comedian and drummer and I have been practicing the songs for a few weeks now. It's all going well. We have 7 songs...
It feels like it's been a year in mixing, but finally it's done. Or I have given up. Or whatever. I'm pretty sure it sounds great. I've been enjoying listening to it while updating all the web sites and what not. The album art is, as promised, Night Of The Living Dead "themed"...
As you may have heard from Facebook updates, a couple of weeks ago, I took a week off from work to write and record a new album. I did the same thing with Sour Grapes two years ago (almost to the day) and was very pleased with the outcome. "Get to some place locked away and li...
The Yes, Mayhem album can be streamed and downloaded from the BandCamp site over at http://yesmayhem.com. These vocals only mixes are only available here at the James Machine. Long spaces have been trimmed out for easier listening. There are actually a couple of tracks in ther...
Finally, I'm getting around to posting about this. I still can't believe it's happened. The Yes, Mayhem album is now finished and is available for download (donations appreciated) at yesmayhem.com, which is a Band Camp site, as well as on this site on the Discography page. It...
The countdown is on to a finished Yes, Mayhem album. Read the full details over at Dan's blog.Yes, Mayhem blog The latest song that was written and completed in the chain, which I posted about before, is Whore Shoes (previously referred to as Whores Shoes and Hand Grenades). D...
Dan updated his blog a month or so ago, with some updates and in turn "released" another track from the Yes, Mayhem album. Neatomatter I have finished up my tracks, with a new song called Whores Shoes and Hand Grenades. The rest of the songs are instrumentals, so hopefully any...
Just because I haven't been posting random crap up in here doesn't mean I haven't been doing anything. I really haven't, but that's not to say I couldn't. I just mostly wasn't. However, over the many months, I actually have compiled a few new songs and recordings, which have j...
A couple of weeks ago, the rest of the Yes, Mayhem pseudo-band traveled to Seattle and played PAX 2009 in front of thousands of adoring fans without me as pseudo-band Metroid Metal. See the video below for much face melting: Dan mixed and arranged a couple of Yes, Mayhem songs...