James gets an unexpected benefit from appearing on American Idol - Miguel - 07-20-2011
Idol Chatter has an interview with James Durbin wherin he states he isn't married to metal. There was also this:
Quote:His father, Willy, was a bass player in a Santa Cruz area band. Willy died of a drug overdose when James was nine. James admitted he had a few memories of his father but not many.
“Before all this Idol stuff,” Durbin said, “I had never really heard or seen any videos of him playing. Now people are coming from everywhere looking back at his stuff and saying, ‘Oh, my God, I have these pictures and these videos.’
“There’s this one lady who has all these tracks, all these live tracks and she had them mastered and sent them to me.
“Yes, it gave me cold chills to watch them. I got this one video of him, I can’t remember what the band was called, but they were the opener for another band playing at UCSC (UC Santa Cruz).
“And the band they were opening for … the bass player was Randy Jackson. I mentioned that to Randy and he remembered the gig.”
http://idol.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/12872/durbin-isnt-strictly-all-about-metal/?tc=ar
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