James Durbin: Era 2.0

[midnightblues]

some Hummers

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Some little Hummers for you LDH :-)

[Miguel]

I've got every confidence he's familiar with the music of charlie parker and tychovsky and has apreiciated them and comes back to metal not from vapidness but from connection.

I recall James mentioning that he listened to and studied Hardcore Superstar from Sweden, but I don't recall any talk of Tchaikovsky.

[Tom22]

I've got every confidence he's familiar with the music of charlie parker and tychovsky and has apreiciated them and comes back to metal not from vapidness but from connection.

I recall James mentioning that he listened to and studied Hardcore Superstar from Sweden, but I don't recall any talk of Tchaikovsky.

Sorry for the spelling. Just a gut feeling I had at times , maybe in group numbers.... I think I pulled out Tchaikovsky because of how the British Ska band Madness played his music (and I think I posted their swan lake in another thread, not sure) in a rockabelli/ska way. Its just a matter of phrasing that gave me the gut impression. Same with the charlie parker comment I made. Once some of that stuff is in a musicians mind I've got to think it has subtle influences even within completely different genres. Almost every note a singer hits has a grace note used to approach it. Part of why any midi kind of computer generated music seems so plain and tasteless.

I think his "while my guitar gently weeps" particularly woke me up ... his riffs aren't just warmed over rocker stylizations, particularly in the rhythym he holds notes for, and what tones he runs through betwen landing syllables. I here a certain jazz influence there and not a typical blues phrasing either. Maybe I should have said Miles Davis not Parker of course they played together on some seminal stuff. But I dont' exactly mean any , but just a contrast with the blues and rock sound

Here is the long studio version. When I listen, I'm hearing the band playing all of these really cliche rock riffs (not saying they had the freedom to do what they wanted... it wasn't about them) but what durbin is doing really has some meditated musicallity to it.



Like i said, what i'm hearing differently is in the rhytym within his runs and the grace notes he chooses... I don't want to over think it.. I just hear it and there is a lot there for me.

Yet... I don't exactly know what my take-away is supposed to be.. but sometimes thats a problem I have with bop too. actually my provlem with that song isn't james but the way the lead guitar accompanies him.. in style.(and i'm not saying durbin is playin bop jazz.. just I hear a tinge that direc)

not much rhyme or reason to these particular clips but.



and Jimmy Hendrix on guitar in europe



listen to hendrix about 10:30 minutes in ... maybe I'm wrong. midnight is more expert at it, but what hendrix is doing there is a lot more bop than stadard r&b and even where rock went after hendrix.

I'm not saying James durbin is a genius yet or anything but just that he's listened to some music.

For what its worth I dig the hendrix stuff.. maybe it's got mor R&B or its just he's got someting wordless to say the way he juxtaposes things that means something to me. I can't say the same about parker though I intellectually like parkers contructs.

I wish James went more the way that While my guitar gently weeps goes.. but with a band with more edge to it. it could really be some interesting music.

James Durbin seems to go to more cliche sounds on recent recording that i've heard (not that i've heard them all.. maybe i should look?)when I've heard he has more in him.

[LovinDaHaley]

LDH you kill me...that's hilarious. Side note: those aren't hummingbirds

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Exactly! (that's my story and I'm sticking to it)

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Some little Hummers for you LDH :-)

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Ohhhh... so that's what a humminbird looks like.

PS. Thank you, and I LOVE that song!

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[Tusk]

Spoke too soon...it appears James has lost his lead guitar, Dylan Rose....
under curious circumstances it appears...
He was pretty solid for James too

[Outcast]

Spoke too soon...it appears James has lost his lead guitar, Dylan Rose....
under curious circumstances it appears...
He was pretty solid for James too

Yes Dylan Rose was fired and Tyler Molinaro (the bassist) quit:

Archer Nation @ArcherNation
I can't leave all the fans in the dark. This is unnecessary. I WAS "LET GO" AND TY STEPPED DOWN. Believe it. Cheers to the future.

We don't know who fired Dylan or why or why Tyler quit. Everyone is very upset about this including the guys themselves, a few of James tweets expressing his upset have been mysteriously deleted.

Dylan and Ty were the earliest members of the band and both are close friends of James from Santa Cruz, and both were groomsmen at his wedding. Dylan actually plays on a few of the recorded tracks: Higher Than Heaven, Outcast, Liberate & Crawling Home.

James tweeted the new lineup:

James Durbin ‏@DurbinRock
Quattro: @DurbinRock @JFabb @Indeloon85 @cassdillonmusic #2.0

Cass Dillon was hired to replace Tyler on bass, rather quickly and suspiciously as he's from NY where Wind-up is based. Blake Bunzel will now play lead guitar while James will play rhythm guitar, Jeff Fabb remains on drums.

[alpha7388]

Haley Reinhart is not impressed.

[Tusk]

I'd be surprised if Wind Up made demands to fire Dylan... I have to imagine things are going as well as they could have hoped for with James so I see no reason to 'rock the boat' with something like a firing....especially considering how close Dylan and James were.

Anywho... This happens with bands all the time.... Dave Mustaine departed from Metallica and look how that turned out...

Knowing James love for 'professional' wrestling, he should 'camp' this drama up ... build a mythology

Every band has a "mythology" so it could be played out in Vh1's Behind the Music

[Miguel]

Archer Nation @ArcherNation
I can't leave all the fans in the dark. This is unnecessary. I WAS "LET GO" AND TY STEPPED DOWN. Believe it.

Dylan and Ty were the earliest members of the band and both are close friends of James from Santa Cruz, and both were groomsmen at his wedding. Dylan actually plays on a few of the recorded tracks: Higher Than Heaven, Outcast, Liberate & Crawling Home.

Strikes me as odd. I thought the band was pretty tight - personally and performance-wise. I can only think of two reasons for this decision:

- Money. Someone else was cheaper
- Control. Management thought James' homeboys had too much influence over him

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TY tweeted:




He's going to be a hairstylist?

tyler molinaro ‏@TyMolinaro

Oh yeah, and @Indeloon85 has a new do (done by yours truly) #newdirections

10/30/11:

Jeff Fabb ‏@JFabb

Practice is over...now getting my hair did by the one and only Tyler Molinaro, bassist for James Durbin.

[john]

James Durbin ‏@DurbinRock
“@TyMolinaro: Sorry I'm late on announcements. I love everyone involved w/ @DurbinRock band, team, fans http://pic.twitter.com/DKAob2UJ” LOVE YOU TOO!