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- Iha made bigger news when he joined the alternative rock supergroup A Perfect Circle in July 2003 in time for their Thirteenth Step club tour.
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Iha made bigger news when he joined the alternative rock supergroup A Perfect Circle in July 2003 in time for their Thirteenth Step club tour. He has since recorded on their 2004 album eMOTIVe as well as contributed remixes of Blue and Outsider, and is back with the band following its near 6-year long hiatus.
A Perfect Circle was originally conceived by Billy Howerdel, a former guitar technician for Nine Inch Nails, The Smashing Pumpkins, Fishbone and Tool. [2] Howerdel met singer Maynard James Keenan in 1992, when Tool was opening for Fishbone, and the two became friends. [3]
August 8, 2003. When former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha got an email a. month ago from A Perfect Circle’s Billy Howerdel asking if he’d. like to audition for the group, the last...
Nov 20, 2013 · Another key connection occurred when APC recruited former Smashing Pumpkin James Iha to replace guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, who had joined Queens of the Stone Age. Iha served with the band until their 2004 hiatus, and he returns in the current lineup.
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Iha was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Elk Grove High School in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, which he described as "a boring, middle-class suburb of Chicago." Iha received average grades in high school, and, after a successful two-year stint at a local junior college, he majored in graphic design at Loyola University Chicago before dropping...
In 1987 Iha, then the guitarist for theChicagoband Snake Train, metBilly Corganvia a friend. Corgan had already been telling people he was in a band called "Smashing Pumpkins," and decided to make it a real band with Iha. Iha later became romantically involved with the band's bassist D'arcy Wretzky, but the couple broke up just prior to the band's ...
2001-2004: A Perfect Circle, producing, Japan
Since the Pumpkins' breakup in 2000, Iha has pursued many projects. He continues to contribute to other artists' recordings, such as "Don't Be Sad" on Whiskeytown's Pneumonia released in 2001 and further guest appearances for bands Ivy and Fountains of Wayne, both of which he remained close to, appearing on virtually every release by both bands since 1997. Andy Chase of Ivy, and Adam Schlesinger of both Ivy and Fountains, appeared on most songs James produced or wrote for other artists. Schle...
2005–2007: Soundtracks, collaborations, remixes
In 2004, A Perfect Circle went on hiatus and James spent much of the year DJing exclusive parties in New York. Iha scored the Japanese film Linda, Linda, Linda, released in late summer of 2005. The same year he teamed with Schlesinger again to produce a duet cover of Bobby Darin's "Splish Splash" for the soundtrack to the Wayne Wang film Because of Winn-Dixie. The same year Iha contributed guitar to some tracks of Chino Moreno's band Team Sleep sophomore album, which has yet to be released. I...
Solo albums ·1998 –Let it Come Down ·2012 –Look to the Sky With Smashing Pumpkins ·1991 –Gish ·1991 –Lull ·1993 –Siamese Dream ·1994 –Pisces Iscariot ·1994 –Earphoria ·1995 –Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness ·1996 –The Aeroplane Flies High ·1998 –Adore ·2000 –Machina/The Machines Of God ·2000 –Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music ·...
Dec 20, 2012 · Since then, Iha has pursued a number of parallel musical ventures, most notably with his band A Perfect Circle, the rock ‘super group’ that he joined in 2003. Iha lives in Brooklyn, and when we talk it isn’t long since ‘super storm’ Sandy was in town.
Jul 10, 2003 · July 10, 2003. Former SMASHING PUMPKINS guitarist James Iha has officially joined A PERFECT CIRCLE, according to MTV.com. Although Iha didn't contribute to the band's new album, "Thirteenth...
