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("TO KNOW ME IS TO LOVE ME") ST JAMES, I WAS BORN NAKED ON FEBRUARY 3, 1956 TO ARTHUR AND DONNA ST JAMES IN FLINT, MI.
I HAVE ONE BROTHER, JOHN AND ONE SISTER, NOW DECEASED, COLLEEN.
I HAD A GREAT CHILDHOOD, PLAYING ARMY, READING COMICS, AND WATCHING CLASSIC (AND NOT SO CLASSIC) HORROR FILMS ON TV - IN THE DAYS BEFORE CABLE AND HOME VIDEO. MY FAVORITE TV. SHOWS IN THOSE DAYS WERE FATHER KNOWS BEST, LEAVE IT TO BEAVER, COMBAT, THE RIFLEMAN, AND THEATER OF THRILLS HOSTED BY CHRISTOPHER COFFIN.
MY FAVORITE SHOWS TODAY NOTHING. WHEN I SAW THE BEATLES ON THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW IN 1964, THE WORLD OF MUSIC WAS SOMETHING THAT I WOULD BE INVOLVED IN FROM THAT POINT ON. NO LOOKING BACK.
MY PARENTS BOUGHT MY FIRST DRUM KIT FOR ME ON CHRISTMAS, 1966, BEING SELF TAUGHT I WOULD PRACTICE EACH NIGHT FOR ABOUT ˝ HOUR RUNNING BEATLES SONGS THROUGH MY HEAD AND TRYING TO IMITATE RINGO’S BEAT. I DID THIS OFF AND ON FOR ABOUT FIVE YEARS. MY FIRST BAND FORMED IN 1972, IT WAS CALLED MID-NITE AND CONSISTED OF BILL TOLL ON GUITAR AND RUSS RALEIGH ON BASS AND SAX AND MYSELF. WE BROKE UP IN 1974. LATTER THAT YEAR, RUSS AND I FORMED A GROUP CALLED VEHICLE WHICH CONSISTED OF 5 MEMBERS. THE GROUP LASTED UNTIL 1981. I TOOK A BREAK FOR A FEW MONTHS AND MARRIED NY WONDERFUL WIFE CATHY.
THREE OF THE GUYS FROM VEHICLE APPROACHED ME A FEW MONTHS LATER TO RE GROUP THIS TIME CALLING OUR SELVES THE ORPHANS, THIS GROUP STAYED TOGETHER UNTIL 1989 AND THEN FOLDED. MY NEXT GROUP CONSISTED OF FOUR MEMBERS, CALLING ITSELF IN-FLIGHT. THIS ONE STAYED TOGETHER FOR APPROXIMATELY 2-3 YEARS AND THEN DISSOLVED.
I MET JERRY AND DEBBIE WHEN I RECEIVED A CALL FROM THEM ASKING IF I COULD FILL IN FOR THERE ABSENT DRUMMER FOR AWHILE AFTER PLAYING A FEW GIGS WITH THEM, I WAS ASKED TO JOIN THEM WHICH I DID, EVENTUALLY TWO NEW MEMBERS WERE ADDED TO THE ROSTER AND SHORTLY AFTER THAT, MUSICAL DIFFERENCES AROUSE WHICH RESULTED IN MY DEPARTURE FOR TWO YEARS.
I ENJOYED THE BREAK FOR QUITE SOME TIME BUT AS THEY SAY MUSIC IS IN THE BLOOD AND I STARTED GETTING RESTLESS. AS IT TURNED OUT I FILLED IN WITH JERRY AND DEBBIE AGAIN A COUPLE OF TIMES. THIS TIME THEY HAD A NEW BASS PLAYER BY THE NAME OF RON PERRYMAN AS A RHYTHM SECTION, RON AND I JUST CLICKED. HE IS ONE OF THE SMOOTHEST AND MOST RELIABLE BASS PLAYERS I’VE HAD THE PLEASURE TO PERFORM AND RECORD WITH. AGAIN I WAS ASKED TO JOIN. I THOUGHT ABOUT IT FOR A COUPLE DAYS AND DECIDED TO GIVE IT A GO AGAIN.
OUR CURRENT RECORD CONSISTS OF OUR VERSIONS OF CLASSIC OLDIES AND ROCK. WE HOPE TO AGAIN ENTER THE HOLLOWED WALLS OF BROKEN RECORD STUDIOS NEXT YEAR 2004 AND RECORD ORIGINALS STAY TUNED MY GREATEST REWARD WOULD BE TO ACCOMPLISH SOME MUSICAL GOALS AND ACHIEVEMENTS THAT WOULD MAKE MY SON SEAN AND DAUGHTER SARAH PROUD OF THERE OLD MAN.
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