Well, It's been awhile and I'm sorry for the delay. On 12/21/07 my home and recording studio burned.

It was a total loss and I lost all my old friendly beasties.... my synths.

I had all that older gear and a ton af ethnic instruments I'd used thru the years.

All my archives of concerts and master reel to reels, dat's, ADATS, 701 pcm etc etc are vapor.

Luckily I had my released masters in a safe deposit box at the bank.

I forgot to back up my hard drives on my 9 macs and the externals, so I lost my recording/mastering and

the new attempts at recreating Ojas in the virtual world.

I now have a new sensitivity of what it is to got thru a major event such as this.

Although we may try not to be attached, it is what it is. My creative voice and structure of creating was gone.

It's been interesting rebuilding. I'm now in a new home, with a great room for my new studio.

I had no insurance on the music gear, ugh, but with many friends giving so much...

I have started again. My mastering ability has returned, and I am rebuiling my synth and guitar controllers.

They're has been a serch and find for some of my loopers and older synths, and some of my live abilities are back,

but my old analog and analog/digital monsters like my 2600 and Oberheim's are sorely missing.

The new virtual synth world has promise and I'm digging in with gusto, but it's not the same.

Change is good they say, and all does change, and I can almost now say it's okay. It's been 3/4 of a year aand I'm on terra firma again.

I was truly foatin' around for awhile wondering who or what I was anymore, ha...

I know many of you that know me or saw my shows in the past 25 years might say that's not much different than my usual, ha.

Anyway, my www site plans went away with my comps and the software, but I'm back.

I hope to revolutionize this site, and make the music fun to hear and download.

Come back and check in to see new sights and sounds. I'll put some pics in The Cave of the fire and the new place.

Peace, light, & love to all of you....

Onward thru the fog... ha

Steve McLinn - ojas music