James Dewees
James Dewees was born in Missouri, United States on March 13th, 1976 and is the Rock Singer. At the age of 48, James Dewees biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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James Matthew Dewees (born March 13, 1976) is an American singer best known for his appearances with The Get Up Kids, Reggie, and My Chemical Romance.
He has also been involved in other musical projects, including New Found Glory, Coalesce, Leathermouth, and Death Spells.
Early life and Coalesce
In 1994, Dewees graduated from Liberty High School in Liberty, Missouri. He began his studies at William Jewell College in Liberty and then moved to University of Missouri to study music composition. In 1995, he was asked to replace Sean Ingram as a vocalist with the Kansas City hardcore band Coalesce. This enraged Ingram and culminated in a brawl that eventually broke the band up. However, the band reformed in the summer of 1996, but this time with James Dewee as a drummer. He recorded the band's first two full-length albums, Give Them Rope and Functioning on Impatience. When touring with the band, Dewees was kicked out of college for missing too many classes.
In 1997, Coalesce appeared at a music festival in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with fellow Kansas-Citizen The Get Up Kids. They started smashing all of their equipment at Coalesce's set, and James took up his Floor tom and threw it into the audience, hitting a girl on the head. Somebody noticed it and threatened to take it, so James, The Get Up Kids' guitarist Jim Suptic, and The Get Up Kids' guitarist Jim Suptic got chased. They started talking, and Suptic invited James to hang out with the rest of the band.
The Get Up Kids and Coalesce began collaborating more, performing shows together and eventually reporting each other's songs for a split 7-inch. James played keyboard for the band on their Red Letter Day EP, and after its inception, the band toured full-time. The Get Up Kids, the band's second album Something to Write Home About, has received a lot more national attention. The band released Eudora, a series of B-sides and rares in 2000 in order to profit from the success of Something to Write Home About as well as bridge the gap between their next album. In addition, there was a re-make of "A Newfound Interest in Massachusetts," with a new layout putting a greater emphasis on the piano.
The band's third studio album, On a Wire, was released in 2002 by Scott Litt. The album was a big departure from the band's previous, poppier sound, and as a result, sales wise failed. The band's fourth album Guilt Show was released in 2004. The album received a much warmer reception than On a Wire, but there was a lot of tension between the bandmates during their world tour promoting the band's debut. Matt Pryor, the lead singer whose wife had recently gave birth to a new baby, wanted to spend more time at home. The band split up at one stop in Australia before deciding to stop the tour. However, they've decided that they'd do one last farewell tour before going their separate ways for good. The band appeared on Live! around the start of their final tour. @ The Granada Theater, their first live album. At the band's tenth-anniversary performance in Lawrence, Kansas, the album was recorded. The band appeared at The Uptown Theater in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 2, 2005, for their final performance.
In 2009, James announced that a reunion tour would be held on August 28, 2008. In November 2013, the Get Up Kids also did a tour in Japan.
In Spring 2015, the band appeared in the United States for the first time.
Deweees was no longer a member of The Get Up Kids on September 7, 2019. It was revealed on the band's instagram page on September 7, 2019.
Dewees began to write some of his own songs while playing with the Get Up Kids full-time. However, he did not feel as though they fit into the bandwagon style, so he produced the Greatest Hits 1984-1987, with the help of bandmate Matt Pryor, and the Full Effect. He continued to write songs until finally releasing his second album, Promotional Copy, two years later.
He released Under the Tray, his third album, in 2003. Megan's marriage to his first wife began to break down after this album was released. He was soon involved in a bitter divorce, much of which led to his fourth album Songs Not to Get Married To, which he was writing and recording during the divorce. Alternative Press announced on April 8, 2008 that they had obtained information about Reggie's latest album, as well as the Full Effect. Last Stop: Crappy Town was released by Sean Beavan with tracks also created by Paul Gray from Slipknot and was released on June 17, 2008 by Vagrant Records.
In early 2013, James posted "welcome to Reggieland." He created a Kickstarter campaign to help finance the launching of his next album. The album titled No Country for Old Musicians was released in November 2013 under Pure Noise Records, marking a huge success.
He released '41' on February 28, 2018 through Pure Noise. In 2019, the band toured as a support act for Frank Iero and the Future Violents.
After The Get Up Kids split up in 2005, James joined New Found Glory's album Catalyst to write and record tracks, then embarking on tour with them to promote the album.
He joined My Chemical Romance as their touring keyboardist in 2007, becoming a full member of the band for a short period of time in 2012 before the band's dissolution in 2013. Before the band decided to call it a day, he wrote "upwards of 30 songs" for their fifth album. He was also heavily involved in the band's live sound system, which was also a major contributor to the band's live sound system, which was also vital to their live performances.
In late 2012, Dewees began collaborating with Get Up Kids bandmate Matt Pryor on a number of demos. The partnership developed to many east-coast tours in early 2013, as well as a 'Matt Pryor and James Dewees' EP in October 2013. Along Frank Iero, he founded Death Spells, a digital hardcore band. The pair began touring and released their debut single "Where Are My Fucking Pills?" There is also a accompanying music video. In 2016, Death Spells' full-length album 'Nothing Above, Nothing Below' was released.
Reggie and the Full Effects went on a spring US headline tour, followed by raising Say Anything and Saves The Day on their end-of-the-year tour, choosing to perform Under the Tray in complete. Dewees appeared on Gerard Way's debut album Hesitant Alien and began touring with Way as the keyboardist of his backing band, The Hormones.
On his various Reggie albums, James has created a sequence of individual personas that appear on the album as "guests." "Klaus," the frontman for the fictional Finnish metal band Common Denominator, is one of these individuals. Five Common Denominator songs have appeared on Reggie and the Full Effects; "Dwarf Invasion" on Promotional Copy, "Linkin' Verbs" on No Country for Old Musicians; and "Trap(ing) Music" on 41. "Fluxuation," a British techno-pop singer, is the other celebrity on many of his albums. "Gloves" on Promotional Copy, "Mood 4 LUV" on Music Not to Get Married to," Under the Tray, "Love Reality" on Songs Not to Get Married to, "Sundae, Booty Sundae, Feat: Fluxuation" on Old Musicians, and "Channing Tatum Space Rollerblading Montage Montage Music" on 41.