I remember them well - especially the noise

Chris do you have any of your material available on the web? Like SoundCloud or something like that? I'd love to listen to it. I always had a passing interest in this stuff but never the time to do much more than dabble with some lame PC software.

Nothing finished. That's my biggest problem. I come up with a great sound, or a few nice bars of something, but can't figure out where to go next, so then I make another great sound.

Here's something I did three weeks ago:
http://scuzzyeye.com/samples/building-2.mp3

And then last weekend (this one is not mastered, so it's kinda quiet, but crank it up on some big subs for a surprise):
http://scuzzyeye.com/samples/pulse-drums.mp3

This weekend I'm working on my house (not house music, just a house).

Has anyone heard anything about the studio monitors from axiom? I emailed., but never got a reply.

Thanks for sharing those Chris. They're pretty cool. Just keep at it and I'm sure you'll be able to piece it together into a completed project.

Chris, I do like those two samples. Please keep going with them, don't give up!

Definitely not giving up. I find what I like more is the mixing and mastering part of production (more technical than artistic, like most things I enjoy). But I don't know too many people who have multi-track recording that need finishing. So that's my drive, to get my projects to the point where I can do what I really like to do.

I do have a standing offer. If anyone has or knows a band that is has some tracks recorded, I'll mix and/or master them for free. If they don't like what they hear, the can throw the stuff out, and get someone else to do it. If they do like it, I just ask for a referral to other bands they know (who I'll also do for free, just trying to build a name). Quick turn around too, a week or less, from the day I receive the stems to do a full album.

Excellent offer.
Next Axiom gathering we need to put a band together. We know we have guitarists, banjo players, and drummers at our disposal. I bet there are others I am not thinking of or are out there in hiding. Mark can take our promo pics, Chris can produce, mix and master and Charles can do lyrics based on his dreams. Ummmmm, ya sure why not. Mary, you can be our hot lead singer. Every group needs one.

I wanna be the guy that dances on stage!

Heh. I played the two samples together (pretty much synchronized start) and found the resulting combo pretty interesting.