User:Docjames
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James Wellington Beal(Born May 9th, 1990 in Hickory, North Carolina, United States of America) I'm the drummer for the new wave-Latino, hardcore, electronica band Death and Immortality with Funky Soul Senoritas. James Beal also works on a side project called Comic Heroes which is more of a fun sunroom band.
I'm currently working on a secret project that has no name yet.
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[edit] Bio
[edit] Early Life
The small town of Hickory, North Carolina is where I was born and raised. He has said that his main influence to get started in music was when I and my dad would "hit 100 going down some road, with Limp Bizkit or Rage Against the Machine blaring!" Due to a job change in the family, I was forced to move to the small ghetto town of Stone Mountain, Georgia. Here I resolved to play music and took a year to learn the alto saxophone. This I say "was a waste of life". Obviously this was the beginning of something great. After another job change in the family, I moved to the rich suburbia of Fayetteville, GA on the outskirts of Atlanta. This is where my magic of drumming began.
[edit] Fayetteville
Picking up my stepdad's bass guitar (a Fender Jazz bass it is reported), I began to learn some bass, but I was not satisfied with the bass and he also felt like this wasn't his 'thing'. My mother bought my stepdad a drumset for Christmas in the winter of 2004. Beal's stepdad hardly played and I began to teach myself some things. Eventually he landed a gig to record on the all rockcore-screamo-sissies rock album "History of Emo Rock : Pt. III - a Hint of Screamo, Wow Life is a Pool of Sorrow". This made me millions of $$$ and now I'm living lavishly at my home in Fayetteville, Georgia.
[edit] Influences
[edit] Geoffrey Pecoraro
He is considered around the world to be the coolest man alive. His nickname "Sexual Chocolate" was derived from an incident that made the melanin in his skin darken and his sexual appetite rise thus the name "Sexual Chocolate" came about. Geoffrey has won numerous awards.
[edit] Rush
Of course Neil Peart comes to mind when you hear my amazing abilites, and I've said in many interviews with people like, the King of England, the Pope, and MTV, that Neil Peart's amazing percussion and lryical work is what made me what I am today.
[edit] Weezer
On some old albums, many of the songs are actually Weezer covers that have been modified to fit my fast pace style of playing. "Weezer was a great band to pracitce to, wow they are cool."[1]
[edit] Coheed and Cambria
Coheed and Cambria, one of the biggest names in new wave, electronica rock; is another one of my influences. "They are so, like, totally, rocking OMG OMGOMG!!!1!" was what I wrote in an internet interview.[2 I really like the diverse stlye of Coheed's drummer Josh Eppard. "I really like his diverse style."
[edit] Gear
[edit] CB drums
Maxx drumset
-14in Ludwig Suprasonic w/ Remo Ambassador coated head
-12in CB drums Tom-tom w/ Remo clear head
-13in CB drums Tom-tom w/ Remo clear head
-14in CB drums Floor-tom (not mounted) w/ Remo clear head
-22in CB drums Bass/ Kickdrum w/ Evans EMAD clear batter head and Maxx resonant head
[edit] Sabian
Cymbals
-121/2in Sabian high-hats
-16in Sabian B8 crash
-18in Sabian XS20 medium thin crash
-20in Sabian XS20 rock ride
-18in Sabian XS20 China
[edit] Gibraltar
Pedal(s)
-Gibraltar Intruder, Double Bass pedal
[edit] Sticks
Sticks/misc.
-Switches from Vic Firth to Zildjian, but always uses nylon tipped, skinny ones.
[edit] Studio albums
| Date of Release | Title | Label | Ranking- Local | Free(F) or Cost(C) |
| March 2004 | First Come, First Server by the 1337 Death Squad-1 | Kingwoo' | 603 | F |
| January 2005 | History of Emo Rock : Pt. III - a Hint of Screamo, Wow Life is a Pool of Sorrow | Tantrum | n/a | F |
| March 2006 | Side Project - Comic Heroes | Improvised Recording | n/a | F |
