James W Harris
I sing and play all the instruments. Playing punk-style music since 1973. Influences include Stooges, Velvet Underground, New York Dolls, Suicide, Ramones, Lest
5
songs
63
plays
Sleeper Hold Sleeper Hold
I Want You I Want You
Band/artist history
Started playing punk-style music in 1973, with drummer Bob Swygert and later bassist Chuck Barber. Knowing virtually nothing about music or instruments, we played with near-total technical incompetence using amazingly bad equipment (tiny almost inaudible garage-sale amps that gave literally no distortion, a guitar that could not stay in tune, a bass that sounded like pieces of wood slammed together, etc.). This Georgia-based band only played two "concerts" -- each in 1973 or 1974, to an audience of just one person, at our rehearsal space -- but if those count as "shows" -- and granted, that's a very tenuous argument -- then we were surely one of the first, if not the first, punk bands in Georgia.
In 1979, I was living in Alabama. With Chuck Barber on bass and Lloyd Malone on drums, we played as Last Exit at one concert at Auburn University, drawing a huge, stunned, and incredulous crowd. As far as I know, that makes us the first overtly punk rock band in Alabama.
More about our musical history, for the curious, including pictures, is at my web page: www.AmazingTemple.com .Your musical influences
Stooges, Velvet Underground, New York Dolls, Suicide, Ramones, Sun Ra, Lester Bangs, in general 60s and 70s punk.What equipment do you use?
1965 Gibson Melody Maker, 1966 Fender Mustang, Boss BR-1180 recording studio.Anything else?
My home on the Web, the Amazing Temple of Miracles (www.AmazingTemple.com) has more info on my music, films, art, likes and dislikes, stuff like that.
Whoever you are, thanks for checking my music out!Contact
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