Don’t sit around thinking that when the chance to show your artistry finally comes around, and it’s the right people, that they are going to sit around waiting for you to bone up, Be ready, get there now. Be the best you can be. The time to shine will come, be ready when the time comes.

James Stone – Vocals, Guitar, writer
Tommy Souza – Drums and Percussions
Andy Ramos – Bass
Be ready when the time comes.
Don’t sit around thinking that when the chance to show your artistry finally comes around, and it’s the right people, that they are going to sit around waiting for you to bone up, Be ready, get there now. Be the best you can be. The time to shine will come, be ready when the time comes.
We recently, last year moved to Texas. I have our studio half done, the control room is done. Still need to add insulation, sheet rock, texture, and paint for the playing area. Can’t wait. Since I moved to Texas, seems I needed to bone up on some Stevie Ray Vaughn. So I’ve been working on Texas Flood, Pride and Joy, and some others. We have 3 CDs, but one still needs to play covers. We don’t like doing anything that we can’t do at least as well or better than the original or at least make it our own. On the 2nd CD, the orange one, same one that Your Eyes is on, we did a remake of 2 tunes, Sweet Melissa by the Allman Brothers and one of my favorites, Highway Song by Blackfoot, We like to play that as an encore tune at gigs.
3 Things I have learned this past year: 1. It’s hard to get to Texas (working on the words for this) it was an expensive and arduous move 1600 miles)
2. I love Texas, absolutely love it here, everything about it so far. My Dad’s side of the family is from West Texas, so in a way, it’s jusy coming back home.
3. Shows like AVA Radio are just one of the ways to market your music that every band should be open to. Things are happening for Madstone, little by little, and you have to market your music.
There’s a reason we’re here in Texas now, that we have the resources to build a really dang nice studio, the equipment we need, the trucks, trailers, everything. And Andy Ramos is on board, what a great find and fit for us and the strangest part is he lives less than 3 miles away. There was probably nobody else that can fit in with us within 50 miles we’ve come to find out. And he fits so well. We really just can’t wait for folks around here to find out who we are, who they have right here in Temple. We’ll be playing Austin shortly as well. As soon as this studio is done, we’ll be recording, like I said, there are at least 3 tunes to get down already, one is a remake of Down By The River that we absolutely rock. It’s hardly recognizable from the original Neil Young or Buddy Miles versions. Anyway, we’re looking forward to a great year.
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https://madstoneband.bandcamp.com/
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