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Smashing Pumpkins Electric Mistress3/24/2021
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Iha recorded on the track The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde in a duet with singer Kazu Makino (of Blonde Redhead ) on the US edition of the album. He is best known as a guitarist and co-founder of the alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. Among his musical projects of recent years, Iha has been a permanent fixture of A Perfect Circle. He was most recently a member of Tinted Windows, a 1960s1970s inspired group with members of Cheap Trick, Fountains of Wayne, and Hanson. He co-owned Scratchie Records, an independent record label, with Adam Schlesinger, and from 1999-2012 owned a recording studio with Schlesinger and Andy Chase of Ivy called Stratosphere Sound. 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 out to dedicate himself to the Smashing Pumpkins. Iha designs and consults for his mens clothing brand Vaporize, a collaboration with the Japanese label Beams since 2001. Corgan had already been telling people he was in a band called Smashing Pumpkins, and decided to make it a real band with Iha. After a brief feud between the two, Iha sustained a friendly and close relationship with Wretzky, 5 citing her as a best friend. He co-wrote with Billy Corgan I Am One on Gish, Soma and Mayonaise on Siamese Dream, Plume on Pisces Iscariot and Farewell and Goodnight on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. ![]() ![]() His humor was encapsulated in his use of the catchphrase, Ive seen a million faces, and Ive rocked them all, originally from the Bon Jovi song Wanted Dead or Alive. One music video was produced from this album, for the song Be Strong Now, which was released as a four-track single. He revealed that he and Corgan had not spoken in around ten years, but that he did speak to Wretzky once in a while. Iha played a third show with the band in their hometown of Chicago at the Civic Opera house on April 14, 2016. In 2017, reunion rumors were leaked through various sources, and in 2018, Iha was spotted with Corgan, Chamberlin, and current Smashing Pumpkins guitarist Jeff Schroeder in the studio and at a photo shoot, confirming his return to the band. He continues to contribute to other artists recordings, such as Dont 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, recorded on most songs James produced or wrote for other artists. Schlesinger first recorded on Ihas song on The Bells by the Smashing Pumpkins. 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. He collaborated on and produced two tracks with Japanese musician Chara for her 2001 album Madrigal called Boku ni Utsushite and Skirt. The latter was accompanied by a music video featuring Iha as a hunter in a forest. With the help of longtime friend and manager Isao Izutsu, Iha started the clothing label Vaporize (f.k.a. Vapor) in 2001, and recorded Never Ever, his first solo song since the Smashing Pumpkins demise, for Vaporizes first runway show. 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 second album, which has yet to be released.
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