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I like a lot of different kinds of music. I like strong projects, big music.

James Iha

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James Iha
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 26
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Guitarist
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Chicago
Illinois
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I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
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After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.
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I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.
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Composing is just another exciting thing. It's as exciting as being in a band. It's kind of like joining a new band for three months.
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I'm happy doing different things. Being in a band is great, but being in a band can be difficult sometimes.
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Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.
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And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.
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I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a great thing.
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I like the challenges of doing different things. It keeps things fresh for me.
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The music industry is not what it used to be. Being in a good band is great, and I've been lucky to be in great bands. I've done solo stuff, and that's been great. I also produce rock bands and I do co-writes, where I write with different singers in bands and songwriters.
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The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.
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It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.
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It's great working with directors and with somebody else's vision.
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So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.
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But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am.
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All the bands I've played with have had dynamic front men.
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We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.
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Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.
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All of the music works on its own, but it doesn't really make as much sense without the picture.
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I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice.
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