A Dream Goes On Forever - The Continuing Story of Todd Rundgren Vol. 2: The Utopia Years
Billy James, born 11/11/1960 and a native of North Carolina, graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1982. He moved to Los Angeles in 1983, and recorded drums on Steve Vai's first solo albumFlex-Able. Through Vai, James met Frank Zappa and began exchanging various ideas on rhythm with him throughout the 1980s (some of which were utilized in James unpublished textbook on rhythmic theory). Other books by Billy James areNo More Mr. Nice Guy - The Alice Cooper Days(with Michael Bruce),Lunar Notes Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band(with Bill Harkleroad),An American Band The Grandfunk Railroad Story, Necessity Is... The Early Years of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Beyond and Before The Formative Years of Yes(with Peter Banks) andA Dream Goes On Forever The Continuing Story of Todd Rundgren Volume 1.