The New Medusa Tee Shirt has finally arrived...

The long awaited tee shirt from Medusa has finally made it to Numero's website and an awesome looking shirt at that. A definitely good choice for a Sunday go to meeting shirt. Grab your bible and your goat's head tee shirt and head on down to pray for forgiveness for all your sins. Especially the sin for not owning a great shirt like this.

Got a good handle on Black Wizard 2

Okay, so we finally worked out a structure for Black Wizard 2. All of the verses and choruses are in their proper places. Now comes the tweeking. No, not twerking, tweeking. Massaging the song getting it right where you want it.
The one thing that is a major issue is the complexity of the parts do not yield time for daydreaming.
You drift for a second and the timing of the song requires goes to hell. And I am sure that I am not the only musician who drifts off listening to how the song is being played, making sure the parts sound good between the members of the band. But you drift once and bam, you missed your odd timing part that you were so proud of creating.

Brain lock at 8:30pm Brain unlock 12:30am

So the frustration was settling in late in the evening because Donna and I are writing Black Wizard 2 to go on the follow up to First Step Beyond and by 8:30 pm the brain shutdown and we couldn't remember the beginning. So eventually out of frustration I said F@*? it. Donna played quietly in the background as I balanced my checkbook and then at midnight we went upstairs started drinking our sleeping time tea and she looks at me and sings the beginning part with perfect aplomb. So here we are at 12:30, downstairs in our dungeon of despair, where the ghosts dance and the devil comes out to play and satan has his way and the Black Wizard will reign terror again.

Medusa is Alive

It was February 1, 2012 when Donna got the call. The voice asked her if she was Donna Brown. She said yes. You were in a band called Medusa back in the early 70's. She said who is this. I am Rob Sevier from Numero Group in Chicago and I have your 45 and it sounds great. Donna said wait a minute, don't tell me your a producer and you want to produce us. Rob continued to talk about how much he liked our music and that he is an archival specialist who brings old bands back to life, which is exactly what he did for Medusa. We were slipping into obscurity when he basically said not so fast.
I am about to turn you guys upside down. And that is exactly what he did. And that's okay by me because life can sometimes be ungratifying and get really weird. Case in point, a week after the phone call Donna went in for wrist surgery which has not really healed that well over the last year.
We then lost our sheltie Jack to congestive heart failure, and then a couple of days after that Donna had gotten bitten on the arm by the neighbors dog. The job situation also was going in the toilet, but that's another post. So with all of the bull*#$@, the album has breathed new life into us all.

The re-learning of First Step Beyond

This has been an interesting journey trying to re-learn First Step Beyond.Tuning was an issue back then since we did not own a tuner. Nobody wrote down the chords, or maybe we did and they are lost. Anyway we are working to figure it out. And the songs are sounding quite good if you ask me. In the song Strangulation Pete wrote of Black Spiders on the walls of your mind. More like cobwebs on the walls of your mind. But we will trudge on wearily and we will prevail.