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James Black

About Me

I've been playing guitar for 23 years starting when I was 7 years old and for the last 14 years I have been playing and writing with the band Finger Eleven. I have had the fortune of travelling all over the world making music with my best friends and during that time I have developed quite a collection of ecclectic material written in my bedroom, in hotel bathrooms on tour buses and in filthy dressing rooms. There is no sense to be made from one song to the next except that they are all from the same brain on different days; a truly telling barometer of how different things can be from one minute to the next. Generally all the sounds on these recordings are made by me using guitars, a keyboard and whatever other stringed instruments I could get a noise out of. It was all recorded with multi track recording machines starting with a Boss BR-8 and eventually graduating to a home ProTools system. Occasionally one or two of my bandmates has thrown their skills into the pot and hopefully as things progress more and more of the talented musical friends I've made along the way will pop up in these experiments. With these songs I've drawn on my love for all music ranging from Progressive to Country to Classical to Disco/Dance to Rock and even some things that are without category.Part 1 - the Telephone

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Member Since: 4/18/2006
Band Website: This is it baby!
Band Members: James Black : Voice, Guitar, Keyboard, Banjo, Violin, Slide, Bass, Drums, Drum Machine, Harmonica, Recorder and Kitchen Sink.
Influences: Everything...from the letter B to lunar rock samples to under water caves, even you...I dare you not to influence me. I just dare you.
Sounds Like: Sounds like Ween stole Syd Barrett's drugs and gave them to Brian Wilson's nurse maid, who slipped them into his warm milk at night, then taped him singing Muppet songs into his pillow as he dreamt of being strangled by Kenny Loggins.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

MissileToe.

I thought I'd make a few seasonal changes on the space so here's a song and short film. Enjoy.
Posted by on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:44:00 GMT

The Queen wants to see my beard.

I must admit that the photos have slowed down in recent days. Things keep popping up and I miss my chance to take one, plus I've beenusing my tripod for some film I've been shooting so it's no longer...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:58:00 GMT

MySpace : the Song : the Movie........"A Modern Miracle!!!!!"

For all you non believers out there I have a tale for you....Jesus stole my socks!.....then turned them into a video for the MySpace song. He truly does work in mysterious ways. A bonified modern mir...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:16:00 GMT

Private Video.

I put up another video clip the other day and was wondering why nobody had watched it. It turns out it was selected for PRIVATE viewings only. So here......NOW!...... THE VIDEO CLIP THEY DIDN'T WANT...
Posted by on Mon, 01 May 2006 11:55:00 GMT

Beardless.

I'm going to attempt a sequence of photos documenting my beard growth. I've tried it once before, some of you may have seen it in the Finger website or on YouTube, but this time I hope to be a little...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:16:00 GMT

Day 2.

I put up a small peice of artwork last night, the first of many I hope, It's just a matter of scanning the peices into my computer. Getting them from this world to the digital world. I guess TRON ha...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:33:00 GMT

The Belly of the Blog

This is a first for me. I have heard about this alleged creature, the Blog, for years but am only now confronting it. I have been busy working on my band (Finger Eleven)'s new album and during the p...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:31:00 GMT