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Together with the sex pistols, buzzcocks and The Clash, The Damned were one of the great four of the early British punk movement. The London quartet around singer Dave Vanian and the clown ski guitarists CPT. Sensitive stood in 1976 with her debut single “New Rose” (which of course turned out to be “neurose”) for an ultra -fast guitar sound.
The rhythm drivers of The Damned were drummer Christopher “Rat Scabies” Millar and the Stoian Bassmann Brian James. As was announced on Thursday evening (March 6th) on James’ Facebook account, the rocker died at the age of 70. There is no information on the cause of death, in the said post it only says that he was “peaceful from us” with the family.
As was the case for the chaotic early years of punk, the original Damned decomposed from the end of 1977 after the second album “Music for Pleasure”. From 1978, Basser James started an extensive tour of numerous follow-ups, solo projects and re-unions.
“We are shocked to hear that one of the ancestors of The Damned, our great buddy Brian James, left” from us “
In addition to his merits as a co-author of “New Rose”, the posting also calls his commitment to the scary cult rockers The Lords of the New Church with US singer icon Stiv Bators, the band The Dripping Lips and the project The Brian James Gang.
His Damned colleague Raymond “Captain Sensible” Burns reacted to the news with a historical backstage photo of the two: “We are shocked to hear that one of the ancestors of The Damned, our great buddy Brian James, went from us,” he wrote.
“What luck that I met him many, many years ago. For some reason he chose me to help him with the music revolution, which became known as punk. ”
After the end of the Damned end, James founded a short-term band with the strange mix of languages dance of the Youth and toured Iggy Pop. With his solosingles “Ain’t that a shame” and “Why, Why, Why?” None other than Stewart Copeland by The Police on the shooting gallery.
Together with the Stiv Bator (who died in Paris in 1990), the style-forming Proto-Gothic troop The Lords of the New Church, who recorded three albums and an EP between 1982 and the dissolution in 1989.
Reunion concerts by The Damned
Since the end of the 1980, around June 1988 in the London Town and Country Club, the Reunion concerts by The Damned have always been involved, with whom James also participated.
After his Dripping Lips project, he joined Wayne Kramer from Mc5, Duff McKagan from Guns N ‘Roses, Stewart Copeland and Clem Burke to the Supergroup Racketers. The album “Mad for the Racket” testifies to this.
James should continue to follow the original theme The Damned. In October 2022, after the end of the pandemic, he met his old fellow campaigners for five retro shows in Great Britain.
In his “X” Requiem, colleague Captain Sensible emphasized James’s influence on his life and added that the primary members of The Damned were “all ready to do it again … but unfortunately that will no longer happen.” He added that The Damned will play today (Friday, March 7) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and will devote “the set (and a few of his solo songs) Brian James. Without him, the Damned would never have existed ”.