 leader of the Contortions, a leader of the James White and the Blacks. Each group put out an album in 1979. It was a great band, basically the same band making two different types of records, Jody Harris on guitar, David Hofstra on double bass, a jazz bass player. Confrontational on stage. James Chance used to wade into the audience, and if you weren't involved in the music enough, he would make sure you were. I saw him on stage.