"the guy I end up meeting is female skinny, with the subtle hints of a new wave haircut (but one that could easily be turned back into a normal college guy hairdo at anytime)…he lives at home with his parent (he never left), and is going to school…he has a nice new telecaster, much nicer than my ratty mustang…everything about this guy screams mama’s boy (he is too clean!), but he seems nice enough…the 3 of us put our heads together and record a song I wrote on the spot, a New Order rip called “Now that I feel this way” (it has 2 chords and 2 parts)…Lenny’s friend immediately plays some stuff that goes well with my guitar part, a surprise to me because it is an instant complimentary language to the one I am speaking…the click is there right-straight-away, and where Lenny and I previously on our songs had captured a sort of imitative smile, this guy brings the energy in the room up a notch instantly and makes my new idea sound more original, and thereby more appealing…which is great…this creates a general excitement between us, which is hard to describe correctly considering we are in a normal bedroom, in a normal suburban house on a uneventful evening like any other (in God knows where)…but there is enough spark there that we decide that the 3 of us should get together and write again real soon…"
is the guy james???

There's no way James would live with his mum after being in one of the most sucuessful bands of the nineties. James doesn't play Telecasters either.

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he lives at home with his parent (he never left), and is going to school

This is taken from Billy's confessions (am I right yteah?). Before the 90's.

There is some brief old footage of him in Viephoria where they show him with a Telecaster and a funky-lookin' haircut. And he did also play Telecasters in the Adore era.

For the early years (1987-1989), James's main guitars were a couple of original Fender Telecasters. One is black and the other is a red-orange sunburst. Both come with the Seymour Duncan pick-ups. His black Tele appears on the Fox television documentary "Full Circle" (band practicing their pre-Gish songs).

Late 1989, James bought two amazing and expensive guitars, which became his main axes for about a decade. Both guitars are the Gibson Les Paul Customs. The first is silver sunburst 1980's with standard humbuckers. The second one became sort of Iha's trademark: "black beauty" Les Paul Custom with gold hardware and an ebony fingerboard with pearl block inlays and Gibson standard 490R, and 498T humbuckers.

James bought his first Les Paul from the guitarist from the band Catherine.

During the Gish tours, he used one guitar for standard tuning, and the second one for drop-D ("Window Paine", "Silverfuck".

yeah, its from 1986 or 87, im not sure, but he met this guy at lenny's place, and on a documentary billy said he met james through a guy named len. i think it might be him, like 60%.