Jamshack Studios

29/11/2023

Come on down to Mad Mike's JamShack and git yo' axe fixed!

06/07/2023

My first project is complete! Yamaha Pacifica. Body repair and refinish with linseed oil, new Seymour Duncan pickups, fret levelling and recrown/polish, input jack upgrade, neck relief adjustment, nut slot depth adjustment, string height adjust, intonation adjust, pickup height adjust.
Very pleased with the results. She plays like butter and chirps like a birdie!

04/01/2021

Sorry folks. Not much going on these days. Hopefully back up in the spring.

Peace!

24/08/2020

Last one I promise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWcdZOPyHpQ&list=PLz6cAheObZci2TTOMyl-TYVAEN0sN2xKI&index=8

Track 8 from their sixth album “A Space In Time” released in 1971, copyright Chrysalis/Columbia Records. Their most successful, it featured their biggest hit...

24/08/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6-bLIogMR4&list=PLz6cAheObZci2TTOMyl-TYVAEN0sN2xKI&index=2&t=0s

Track 1 from their sixth album “A Space In Time” released in 1971, copyright Chrysalis/Columbia Records. Their most successful, it featured their biggest hit...

24/08/2020

Written in 1971. I ask you, what has changed? Really. Other than the technology - absolutely NOTHING! Humankind is still showing itself incompetent to steward the world it borrows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUsFm0BAu8

Ten Years After - I'd Love to Change the World Album: A Space in Time (1971) Ten Years After est un groupe de blues rock britannique fondé en 1966. Devenu mo...

12/08/2020

***Preach, Steve!!***
(For ALL of my music people)

Steve Lukather has some comments on the state of the recording business today. Steve was a founding member of Toto, has released solo LP's and is one of the most successful studio guitarists in history. He has been involved in thousands of records (if a Michael Jackson song has a guitar on it, it's Steve). Here is what he wrote:

"I just want to know something. ALL this pontificating about how Spotify and the like are the ’ answer ’ and how ’ the artists get paid’ etc. How much? Really? WHO keeps tabs and accounting?
Maybe I just don’t know. I don’t see any money and have A LOT of stuff out there over 35 years of making records.

Have you done the breakdown on what an artist get PER tune on iTunes? Pitiful. Now IF you are with a label its even worse cause they take a huge share of that. The breakdown after all is said and done for most it’s pennies.

TOO many people can make records. Period. No catalog artists are made these days. One hit wonders galore. Sad really.

Now record companies don’t give budgets like the old days when the great records were made cause they cost MONEY!! They want to make money for nothing and own you for life and a piece of EVERYTHING an artist does. You can sell a million and still OWE them! My 25 year old son has buddies who have platinum records living in a one room studio apartment…Broke.

Of course back ‘then’ rec. companies cared about MUSIC and nurturing artists for a LONG term career and long term money.
Sure they got the Lions share but then they invested, believed and promoted it so there was SOME justification.

Now its ’ Beats’ and how many facebook hits or Youtube hits you get .. ALL which either make NO money or short term dog-s**t money with no real way to account for it and truly suck for the most part.

What the f**k ? People want to be famous NOT good! It is TOO easy to play ‘pretend pop star’ now. With all the fakery and auto tune-time correction -cut and paste etc.. f**k most young people don’t know how to play a song from top to bottom in a studio in tune and in time and with feeling?? Rare
I am in the studios all the time and hear the stories from the producers and engineers.. and yet NO ONE cares that ’ so and so’ who sold a s**t load of records ( how much IS that these days? ) cant sing or play. They make ‘McRecords’ for people who don’t even really listen. It’s background music for people to either find a mate or shake their heads while texting or skyping or doing other things. Environmental noise for the multi-tasker.

Gone are the days of loving , dissecting, discussing the inner workings of ’AN ALBUM”… sitting in silence while it plays.. looking at the liner notes and the few photo’s IN the studio .. imagining what a magic place it music be to make such music…Gone. You need a f**king jewelers eye to read the credits IF one even cares. Most don’t. So if you keep blaming the ‘old antiquated artists’ who are the only REAL ones left.. who MAY make a great record once in awhile but may be overlooked cause the media chooses to care more about who is super gluing meat to their bodies and other ridiculous HYPE and bulls**t to get attention rather than LISTENING hard to the music being made we might be in a different place.

When we were kids ( yes I will be 108 this year) there were only a handful or artists and they WERE great cause they HAD to be.
You could choose not to like some but outside the teenage fodder most deserved their success and NO ONE sounded alike ! No one!
We live in a McWorld that moves way too fast and now even the drugs suck. I mean when I was young and got high I never got naked foaming at the mouth and tried to eat someone’s face off.

Time to put on Dark Side of the Moon and chill. Have a nice day and may real music come back and fill our ears. ( there IS some great stuff but you know what I mean ..)
REAL music played by REAL musicians. They ARE out there.
They just don’t get a lot of press anymore, or at all.”

Luke
(Steve Lukather)

10/08/2020

Good news for musicians in Oshawa. Another live venue!

The Music Hall in Oshawa is coming back, but it will be at a new location and will have a new name. In June, the venue's owner said they hadn't been able to

27/07/2020

22/07/2020

Mind blown!

20/07/2020

Luna Lee takes the gayageum—a traditional Korean folk instrument—then adds pedals and technical bravado to nail the Hendrix classic.

07/07/2020

Just discovered these guys. What ya'll think?

I love the native roots in this music.

https://youtu.be/4EABDkDLC08

Provided to YouTube by Believe SAS All Night · Digging Roots For the Light ℗ Digging Roots Released on: 2014-06-17 Author: Rr. Composer: Rr. Auto-generated b...

21/06/2020

Ry again. This band is so tight!

Last one I promise!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEUIZWyieAk

"The Prodigal Son", Ry' Cooder's first new solo release in six years, is available now! Buy or stream now here: http://found.ee/RYtps Directed by Jeff Coffma...

21/06/2020

Another one from the RY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5TKrA9opxc

Nice solo performance from a concert in Hamburg 1977. I enjoy Ry Cooder. He is really the best slide guitar player in the world.

21/06/2020

I love Ry Cooder. Naked emotion and raw talent. Spends most of his time outside of the box.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=MGKENjR5sIU

This is for my Sister Kathy Rubio.

29/05/2020

True CLASS right theyuh! The Blues Brothers is still one of my favourite albums.

https://youtu.be/u7ogK_unbqM

From the 1980's film The Blues Brothers. Full version videomix by alekosg.

05/05/2020

04/05/2020

By Ray Materick

20/04/2020

Anyone?

15/04/2020

This is a big part of the roots of modern music. The African influence in blues, folk, Americana, rock, rap and any "from the people" genre is undeniable, and it runs deep. I often wonder where the music scene would be today without the influence from the Africans brought to North America through the slave trade. Would we still be minueting around to chamber music like a bunch of pansies with big white wigs and frilly blouses?

Thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVPLIuBy9CY&feature=youtu.be

Dedicated to the people of Baro. Please share. Life has a rhythm, it's constantly moving. The word for rhythm ( used by the Malinke tribes ) is FOLI. It is a...

28/02/2020

My newest baby. Really starting to like this thing. She's a rocker!

26/02/2020

Dave Shephard (Shep).

24/02/2020

Crushing another track in the "shack".

23/02/2020

Chilling at the "shack"

23/02/2020

Guy Sylvestre laying down some tracks. Guy is an incredibly talented singer songwriter, plays multiple instruments including bass, drums and keys. Visit his Youtube page for some samples of his work recorded here at the Jamshack! (OOPS, still under construction lol)

23/02/2020

Hey! Welcome to the JamShack Studios! We're a home-based music recording, mixing, mastering and production studio located in Pembroke Ontario. Our product is broadcast-ready music that is ready for which ever venue you desire be it CD, YouTube, Facebook, iTunes and other music sharing sites. We specialize in rock, country, folk and blues but can cover all genres.

- Recording Engineer formally trained by the Audio Institute of America
- Very reasonable rates and professional results.
- 25+ years experience recording audio
- excellent quality recording equipment ensures an excellent quality product.

PM me (Mike Manser) for more information.