Lead Vocals, Rhythm/Lead Guitars     Well, here goes my personal autobiography.   James (Jim) M. Connors (Thas me!) was born on June 4th, 1979 in Milwaukee (The Good Land!), Wisconsin.  It was decided by the parents no more than two years later that they would move the whole family to Silver City, New Mexico (woohoo fun right?).  I stayed in Silver City till the time I was seven years old.  At which times the moms decided to move the family to Albuquerque.   Okay, fast forward or this is gonna take forever.   I started playing guitar and singing around the time I was fifteen years old when I began thinking seriously about starting up the most awesome, bad ass hard rock band.  Well... needless to say there was no band... it was me and a friend of mine screwing around with guitars and writing really cheesy songs.  We had a few demos, no big deal... nothing really started until I was 17 and we got our first "real" band together, and so started Lost Cause, in which I played the rhythms and sang.  I won't go as far as to say that band particularly sucked or anything... but there was definite room for improvement.  Anyway, that band broke up very shortly before I turned 19 years old.  A month later, I get into another band called Last Rite.  This band was very different for me because it was a big step into the unknown, it was a death metal band.  Now you see why Mr. Joe thinks I didn't really fit into Vincent Black Shadows when I first started.  This death metal band went on until about July, 1999.. and it was unanimously decided that no one in the band really wanted to play music with anyone else so I just dropped it.   Yeah yeah... you know what happens next, I almost get married, spend a little while in solitude, try to reform the old band after the marriage falls through the floor, blah blah blah... right?   Okay... so you did know, that's weird....... Have we met before????    Anyway, that deal never went though... I never reformed the death metal band and was forced to work for a living (OH MY GOD!!!).  I stayed bandless for about a year and just worked on perfecting my skills, (For those of you reading, they aren't perfected, I'm as sloppy as the next guy).  So anyway I got into another band temporarily, they were called Cold Snap.  It was within this time that I started hanging out with Joe Ergish and Chris Norman of the Vincent Black Shadows.  Chris said he liked my singing and all and we had talked about me maybe singin' with them but nothing really came out of it.  I was and to this day still am pretty self conscious about my voice so I didn't pay it much heed.... until one night I decided to play a couple original songs I had been working with in some little coffee shop.  And Chris and Joe decided they would show up.   So hey, here I am... Chris said I sounded great and offered me a place in Vincent Black Shadows.  I never officially accepted until the day that Vincent Black Shadows was scheduled to go into the studio to record "Bring on the Blues", I talked to Chris earlier in the day and made it known that I wanted to do the vocals on that track and he accepted.  So here I am, in the studio, singing a song I had heard twice in my life and trying my best not to bollocks it up (I did bollocks it, several times in fact).  I eventually got the song right after about an hour in this padded room that felt like I was in a loony ward.  And it was decided at that point that Vincent Black Shadows was a four piece.   So Cold Snap wasn't too pleased about this when I told them one day that I was quitting to play in VBS, but that's the way it works DAMMIT!!!  I have the blues goin' through me and it just took a chance to find that out.  It just goes to show that long haired crap rockers DO have souls!   Keep the music alive!!!     Jim's Personal Quotes   "I was in Nashville, Tennessee last year, after the show I went to a Waffle House, I'm not proud of it, I was hungry. And I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a book, right? Waitress walks over to me, "Tch tch tch tch. Hey, what you readin' for?" Is that like the weirdest fucking question you've ever heard? Not what am I reading, but what am I reading for. Well, godammit, you stumped me. Why do I read? Well... hmmm... I guess I read for a lot of reasons, and the main one is so I don't end up being a fucking waffle waitress." - Bill Hicks   "Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thought, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thought. Hmm. Sounds like... every commercial on television, doesn't it? You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm not thinking of gum. I am thinking of chewing, maybe that's the connection they're trying to make. What? You've all seen that Busch beer commercial, where the girl in the short hot pants opens the beer bottle on her belt buckle, leaves it there, and it foams over her hand and over the bottle and the voice over goes, "Get yourself a BUSCH." Hmm. You know what that looks like, nah, no way. " - Bill Hicks   "I can speak for every guy in this room here tonight, guys, if you could blow yourselves, ladies, you'd be in this room alone right now. Watching an empty stage." -Bill Hicks   "Would you like to use the lightah now that you've finished beating the fuck out of it?"  -Joe   "I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis." -from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams       View The Saint's Equipment List