James Chance and the Contortions

like, wah, wah, wah, wah, and I'd go, yeah, yeah, wah, wah, wah, wah.

It kind of sounded like a punk rock James Chance and the Contortions.

I don't know if you're familiar with them, but it was like very like, it was really good.

That's all I'm gonna say.

James...

James Black, James White and the Contortions or James White and the Blacks.

He had two different bands.

The Contortions had a sort of a novelty dance floor hit called Contort Yourself.

It's kind of sounded like James Brown, but all of it was very, but audiences hated this.

like hated it and it was like it was like you got to check this out it's the next big thing and like critics thought it was like very interesting because it was just so left of center but um that was the scene that we kind of parachuted into and i mean i must admit like we were so we actually had some songs in our show that were a little screamy, that were kind of sort of fit into that vibe a little bit.

Maybe that's code for not really knowing how to play that well.

Looking back, they remind me of The Contortions and the new wave groups in New York City.

It was noisy, it was kind of in tune, some of it was not really in tune, and they had that whole new wave ethic where it was just do it yourself.

They were yelping and dancing and honking on a saxophone, and it was so new wave.