James Durbin: Era 2.0

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Bridesmaids dance to James Durbin's "Higher Than Heaven" at a wedding reception:



I don't recall James' own wedding being this complicated.

LOL, that was funny.

Nope as Haley herself can confirm James' own wedding wasn't that complicated. He did get to do a duet with Geoff Tate that night, that was rad.

That was f--king awesome!

really really awesome..

that band is insane and I've always felt Durbin really understood music but chose to go some different ways with his knowledge and artistry than I'd prefer. but

the rtyhyms and way his vocals and the two guitars, the bass and that awesome drummer just entirely "rocked" (that is truly rock to me) against each other was something.

I'd go drive to Santa Cruz to hear that band play once and see what else they've got!

Aww, posts like this make me all gooey inside.

They really did turn this Xmas classic into something fresh and took it up quite a few notches on the fun meter.

The drummer is a beast and one hell of a showman. His name is Jeff Fabb and he's one of the best metal drummers in the biz. The guitarist is Blake Bunzel, both are former members of the metal band In This Moment. Blake is actually a rhythm guitarist but appears to be playing lead on this track. I'm not entirely sure but if that's the case I'm really impressed and severely underestimated his abilities. When James was touring Blake was mostly in Dylan Rosenberg's (James' former lead guitarist) shadow.

James played bass on this track as he longer has a bassist. I'm impressed with the job he did on bass here, as to my knowledge he never played bass before this. His father was a bassist so I'm not surprised he picked it up so quickly, he has a knack of mastering new things really quickly. I don't know if James will hire replacements for Dylan and Tyler before he tours again, he hasn't addressed the issue yet, but this trio seems to be strong enough on their own so it might not be necessary.

I'm really excited to hear what they've been cooking up, and can't wait for them to get back on the road, new YouTube vids of new songs, yippee!!!

PS: It's now a free download on Amazon mp3: http://www.amazon.com/gp/r.html?R=2NUXVY...pe_vfe_dt1

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James did a Ustream chat with fans the other day with Cricket and Mauve Music. I missed it but I found this recap by another fan at MJs:

The Ustream chat with James was great, he was at home with Heidi and Hunter and they made an appearance towards the end. The webcam wouldn't work so we couldn't see him and he was ticked off about that and said it felt awkward, like he was doing a radio interview. He answered some questions about the new album, collabs, ect. and a lot of questions about music he likes and wrestling related questions. There was plenty of humour too, and I almost died laughing a few times such as:

Hunter (screaming): "I love my daddy"
James: "And I love my Hunter. You smell."

James (in answer to a question): "Hunter has sat on Santa's lap 2 times. Two different Santas."
Heidi: "The same Santa, two different locations."
Hunter: "...Two different Santas."

Oops James! LOL!

When asked if the new album will be "more metal" he said it will have more aspects of metal as he and the band are writing most of it. So glad James is going in a heavier direction, yes! He said they've recorded about 20 songs so far and that he'd like to get another 10 or 15 more done. He said he might perform on Idol again, it depends on a lot of stuff that I can't remember right now. He said he and Chris Rene talked about collaborating but that it probably won't happen soon as "too many things have to happen first." He said the one female artist he'd like to collaborate with is P!nk, saying that she's one of the few artists that retains some moral standard (not sure I agree with him but whatevs). He says he hasn't collaborated with anyone yet but that he might do so later, he doesn't know. He said it'd be sweet to tour with Greenday, that it's his dream to perform at Rock am Ring and that he'd like to do Rock on the Range again. He said he was at Pixar for both personal reasons and for business "my own personal business". Can't wait to find out more about that! He also said that he'd like to do at least one song for the WWE, and is in fact hoping to have a few songs on the new album that would be suitable for them to use. That's everything important I can think of off the top of my head, it was a fun and informative chat.

...Oh one more thing I forgot to mention, he said there'll be bonus tracks on the new album.

http://www.mjsbigblog.com/idol-headlines...dition.htm

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Another StageIt show goody! More new tunes to sample:

http://www.stageit.com/james_durbin/welc...2013/17428

[john]

Another StageIt show goody! More new tunes to sample:

http://www.stageit.com/james_durbin/welc...2013/17428

StageIt seems to be a useful venue for these struggling artists.

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Definitely.

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James and Chris Rene will appear at the home opener tonight of the Santa Cruz Warriors in conjunction with the Grind Out Hunger organization.

James will be singing the National Anthem.

http://grindouthunger.org/2012/12/22/san...rwarriors/

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And here's James singing the NA, once again he slayed it:

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Tomorrow is gonna be RAD!! Stageit show is coming to ya!! Practiced my set. Very excited to play some of these songs for you all. Its just gonna be me and my guitar. Got some old stuff, some new stuff, and this will be the first and last time that I play "Everything Burns" FYI..Got about 12 rockin songs for you!! Rockin your New Year!!

JD+

https://www.facebook.com/DurbinRock

[Miguel]

James' StageIt show begins in less than an hour.

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I couldn't watch it but got the set list:

Love is All I Have (new)
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Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis (this was apparently a hoot, he was in full character)
Right Behind You (with a Mumford & Sons arragement)
Everything Burns (first time he's ever performed this song)
We All Go Marching On (new)
The Kill - 30 Seconds to Mars
Higher Than Heaven (with a new ending)
Crawling Home
Enemies Like You (new)
We Would Have Loved You Anyway (new - a song he wrote about suicide)
Try - Pink
Santa Cruz (new)

I hope someone recorded this and they upload it to YouTube, everyone is raving about the whole thing and that he's become really good on guitar.