![]() ![]() James scuffled on the periphery of the music business for many years before breaking through, watching friends become famous, making money however he could (including drug smuggling from India and Colombia) and periodically ending up in jail. Some of the women James reported liaisons with: Linda Blair (The Exorcist), Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas), Catherine Bach (The Dukes of Hazzard TV show), Ola Ray (the video for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”), Iman (the supermodel), Teena Marie (his protégée), Jan Gaye (the wife of his friend and mentor, Marvin Gaye). The Kind of Girls You Don’t Take Home to Mother armed forces caught up with James for going AWOL and threw him in the brig.Ģ. They got signed to Motown and were ready to release a single - but it got shelved when the U.S. He also became friendly with Joni Mitchell (they would stay up all night listening to jazz), and she recommended Neil Young, who joined James in a band called the Mynah Birds. “A trio of three other white guys saw what was happening and came running to my aid.” Two of those three: Garth Hudson and Levon Helm, then playing backup for Ronnie Hawkins, later Bob Dylan collaborators in the Band. But as soon as he got into Toronto, three drunk white guys tried to beat him up for going AWOL. James dodged the Vietnam War draft by heading across the Canadian border from his hometown of Buffalo, New York. ![]()
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