james chance the contorions
youngEINSTEIN
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anybody know something about this dude? maybe NY strutters? a friend was telling me to check him out. peace, stein. . .
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thanks ya'll. peace, stein . . .
James Chance
I have the one WITHOUT the female on the front for trade - PM me if ya interested...cheerz...M Rez
I have the one WITHOUT the female on the front for trade - PM me if ya interested...cheerz...M Rez
and . Great scene of him with Defunkt in Dowtown 81.
Sweeeeeeet
Hated his early NYC audiences because they didn't dance as hard as the folks he knew back in his hometown of Milwaukee, WI.
There is great live footage of him and his band in the movie downtown81. It stars Basquiat and he wanders from club to club in New York checking out all these ill no wave bands. Worth checking out.
when he was dancing, what was it like? Was he all thrashed out to JB or something?
speaking of jb...on james chance's third record "sax maniac" he does a song called "sax machine" which is no doubt a jb reference.
his version of "king heroin" off that live in europe thing is off the hook...
That's cool they did shit with Defunkt, i just picked up their two first records on Hannibal and I like them a lot.
Isn't he just a straight up alcoholic that will play a gig every so often? I read recently that at the height of no wave back in the day, he broke a bottle on a pregnant girl's head. This girl just so happened to be Robert Christgau's girlfriend, and Robert Christgau beat the shit out of James White.
(note: Robert Christgau is a music critic for the Village Voice.)
Sonic Youth did a track called "I Killed Christgau With My Big Fucking Dick" for a Forced Exposure comp back in the late 80's...never heard got to hear it, though.