Site Status, Updates & Restoration Progress
This page is exactly what it says. The updates are shown in reverse chronological order.
August 30th, 2023
– YIKES. YIKES. YIKES. YIKES. YIKES. YIKES TO INFINITY.
– Added release pages for I, II, Return of the Dream Canteen and Unlimited Love.
– Added feature images/thumbnails to the listings on the Red Hot Chili Peppers page. Only three more listings with missing images to go!
– Cleaned up the database and removed a lot of redundant crappola.
– Updated the gallery and adjacent add-ons to their newest versions.
March 31st, 2021
– Pages that did not work due to the theme update removing my custom templates are back. Phew, sorry about that!
– The internet album download page links to itself, instead of linking to the as-is page with information on the said release. This is being worked on. It’s a redirection issue.
December 02nd, 2020
The site look and feel is gradually being modified to resemble its classic 2012-2019 design, yet keeping the accessibility requirements and mobile-first approach in mind. Still looking for a banner/header!
November 21st, 2020
Paintings and drawings page has been restored.
November 20th, 2020
Most recent releases can be seen in the sidebar again.
November 15th, 2020
The gallery has been restored.
November 13th, 2020
– Erroneous HTML on the internet album page has been fixed and now all twenty tracks are accessible.
– Audio interviews page has been cleaned up, since the mp3 player used no longer works. Please, note that the links to help with transcripts are valid, but those to existing transcripts are not. And I have no idea who was supposed to transcribe the Zane Lowe interview, what year was that etc – so that one may still be up for transcription. I need to check for its existence.
– Remains of the download counter have been removed from all pages in the audio section, but the subpages of Live: Solo and Live: with RHCP. Those have been taken offline until fixed, as well.
– Press archive has been restored and is slowly being reorganised, as all the taxonomies for the type had to be converted and output has to be sorted by two criteria: year of publishing and what it is (interview or another article, transcript, old blog post, review of a release, letter or a note, or whatever unsorted thing. Each of the nearly 500 items is now being recategorised, but their URLs will remain the same. It’s just that it will take a couple of days for them to be accessible from the front-end again. The items that are not reviews or magazine articles will appear on the subpages before the latter two do. Then again, reviews appear on release subpages only, which is not to say that they do not have to be recategorised.
– The Letters page in the above section has been renamed to Letters and Notes.
– An entry for Excalibur (Instrumentals) has been added to the solo releases page.
– Images have been re-added to all entries on the Guest appearances page. Since they will also be used as page headers for individual entries, I am in the process of finding the largest versions possible. For the items I own, I am adding scans of the CD or LP inlays that concern John as well.
– The entry for Warpaint’s Exquisite Corpse EP was, in addition to the above, updated with the final cover art as the image used was something that had nothing to do with it. O_O
– The typo in the name of the Johnny Cash boxset was fixed: Unearthed, instead of “Unhearted”. Several other formatting issues, inaccuracies etc. were fixed.
– Free Music page has been taken offline for reorganisation purposes.
– Tweaks were made to the navigation menu.
– A database clean-up has been performed in order for the website to work faster. This has not been an issue since we have moved from S**vage, but still.
November 12th, 2020
– Interview for Giornale della musica was added to the press archive.
– Trickfinger II was added to solo releases.
– Guest appearances have been updated with the one on Dewa Budjana’s album Manahdini and the most recent one with Omar Rodriguez Lopez, on ORL’s Arañas en La Sombra. The latter sat in drafts for more than four years. Oops.
– Discography pages for the Black Knights, guest appearances, Filmography, soundtracks, bibliography and collaborations are operational again. Images coming up very soon. Actual entries, well, sometime – depending on the category.
– Images have already been added to the listings of solo releases, collaborations and JF-produced Black Knights albums and one-off songs.
– Page with other artists’ covers of John’s songs has been completely restored and updated with the newer cover art for Carissa’s Wierd unreleased tracks compilation. And that was not a typo.
– Images for most news posts from 2019, 2018, 2017 and up to mid-2016 have been recovered. Now they don’t look wonky.
– The oddly-named “Volunteer Checklist” page is now Help & Contribute. And once I have an idea of what I was doing last time around, who submitted what etc, the information on it will be correct. Give me a couple of millennia.
– Pages for two out of three non-documentary and non-RHCP films John was in, Desert in Shape and Stuff are fully operational and accessible from the Filmography listing. The only exception to this is being able to actually watch Stuff since Flash video was deprecated and I am looking for a better solution.
November 10th, 2020:
– It case it was never specified, everything in the Audio section works. If a player opens for a file, just do whatever is commonly done to download it. For example, right-click and save on Windows.
– The magazine articles page is functional, too. But it outputs only the years for the time being as the current solution I use to output items related to specific categories and terms does not function right and displays no results, whatsoever. This is currently being worked on, as it will practically render everything on the site accessible again within mere hours.
– In addition to the above, placeholders for 2018, 2019 and 2020 listings have been added.
– The page for cancelled events was updated with information on that one year where everything was cancelled. Oh, look, the floor is made of floor.
– The page for cover songs was updated with missing information. Namely, there was a The Germs tribute involving John, Josh and Flea at the end of 2000 and it IS in the gigs database, but there was no information of who else was there and which songs were played. D’oh!
– Temporary entry listings have been added for the 1997 Nuttstalk tour, 2001 shows, 2004 shows, other solo shows and misc. live appearances. Keep in mind that some of the entries contain broken code and random nonsense, while some might even be completely blank.
– A very random review by yours truly has been added – John’s cameo with Mike Watt and the Missingmen in Vienna, December 06th, 2006. He opened for his own band and some people had no idea who he was – quite funny.
November 09th, 2020:
– All images were restored on the following pages: references in popular culture, paintings and drawings, tattoos, speed dealer moms and other bands and projects.
– The songs list works again.
-Release entries have been added for Maya, A3t1ip, Look Down See Us, She Smiles Because She Presses the Button and Lyng Shake.
– Thumbnails have been added/re-added for all of the above, Poem and To Record Only Water For Ten Days.
– Basic song entries have been added for Poem, Lyng Shake and A3t1ip.
– The name “other bands and projects” has been changed to “live-only cover bands” and it will be broken in two pages, as the notes about Three Amoebas and Kimono Kult are to be moved elsewhere.
– Gallery has been disabled until its contents are fully online again.
November 08th, 2020:
– Our move from Servage to world-famous DreamHost has been completed.
– The site is operational and much faster because the server works as intended.
– The gallery will be back in a cuouple of days, max. one week.
– The video section was disabled until further notice.
– Feedburner issue seems to have resolved on its own.
October 27th, 2020:
– This page was created (duh).
– Server settings temporarily adjusted as good as it was possible, so some stuff can be done before our move to a different host.
– Feedburner has issues, it displays a bizarrely small subscriber count.
– Updating the song and release database has been marked high priority.
– A new, spam-proof email address was added to the side widgets.
The photo used in this article is my dog, Judi, with various Red Hot Chili Peppers stuff back in December 2012 – just in case you’re wondering!
