James Levesque

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James Levesque is best known as the high energy bass player from surf punk legends Agent Orange. Levesque was the bass player for the touring punk band from 1979-1988, along with original members Mike Palm and Scott Miller. Levesque's songwriting and artistic influences on the bands most notable releases (Living in Darkness, This is the Voice) helped create the explosive music scene in Orange County, California in the early 1980's. The melodic guitar driven surf punk with vocal harmonies influenced bands such as Nirvana, Bad Religion, The Offspring and Green Day.

Agent Orange is considered to be the originator of "skate rock" after their music was used in the Vision Skateboard video "Skate Visions" that crowned them Kings of the skater bands. The video spawned many imitators and is the best-selling skateboard music video of all time.

Levesque is a BMI affiliated songwriter and co-writer of such punk classics as Everything Turns Grey, Living in Darkness, Voices in the Night, and In Your Dreams Tonight.

Levesque is currently a music and entertainment publicist residing in Beverly Hills, California.