I am James, I'm honored to announce that I am presently recording an original song with Big Brother and the Holding Company's extraordinary drummer Dave Getz.
This is a high point in my career, and it's impossible to describe what it's like to perform with someone who's music has influenced me so profoundly throughout my life. Let alone the fact he's one of the best drummers on the planet and a living legend!!!
The track we're working on is called 'Polka Dot Ned'. It will be available for download on MySpace in about a month. It was written by the inimitable Peggy Sprite and myself.....
Thanks for all your support.........I think you're all gonna dig this one!
And most of all, thank you, Dave. I know this took awhile and I appreciate this more than you could imagine!
James
Dave Getz of Big Brother & James
James
~ Influences ~
Jimi Hendrix, Blue Cheer, MC5, Grateful Dead, The Who, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Big Brother And The Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver, Country Joe & The Fish, Ravi Shankar, Sir Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet, The Kinks, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Jeff Beck, The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page, The Cream, The Amboy Dukes, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Canned Heat, Iron Butterfly, Damnation of Adam Blessing, James Gang, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Sun Ra, Archie Shepp, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Pharoah Sanders, Joe Pass, Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Django Reinhardt, Syd Barrett, Dave Brubeck, Astrid Gilberto, Jethro Tull, Dizzy Gillespie, Rory Gallagher, Abbie Hoffman, Owsley Stanley, Jack Keroauc, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Wavy Gravy, Ken Babbs, Janis Joplin, James Gurley, The Stooges, Any old bluesman or woman you'd care to mention, B.B.King, Albert King, Muddy Waters, Leadbelly, Howlin' Wolf, Big Mama Thornton, Link Wray, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Any of the Rockabillies, Little Richard, The Flamingoes, All the great fifties acts, Motown, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, Martha and the Vandellas, Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, Otis Redding, Stax, Spanky and Our Gang, The Mamas and Papas, The Turtles, The Beach Boys, The Four Seasons, The Easybeats, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Standells, Chocolate Watchband, All the cool 50's and 60's bands. Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Patsy Cline, Edgar Allan Poe, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Frieda Kahlo, Eudora Welty, Ghoulardi, and so many, many more than I could ever list here. And all of you!!
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