Colorblind James Experience were an alternative roots/pop/rock band founded in 1980 in San Francisco, California . Bandleader and singer/songwriter/guitarist “Colorblind” James Charles Cuminale was originally from Rochester, New York but assembled early versions of what would become the Experience in Oswego, New York before relocating to San Francisco.
After a couple years of mixed results there, the band regrouped and moved again, this time back to Rochester which remained its home base until Cuminale’s premature death in 2001. The band enjoyed brief fame in the UK and Europe after BBC DJ John Peel gave the Experience some exposure, and their music has made a deep and lasting impression. Their “Dance Critters” single reached number 10 on the UK Indie Chart, while their albums Colorblind James Experience and Why Should I Stand Up reached numbers 5 and 13 respectively…
Their line-up changed repeatedly over the years, and their third album was released under the name of Colorblind James and the Death Valley Boys
Chuck Cuminale unexpectedly died of an arhythmia in July 2001.
Colorlind James Experience played the Finnegan’s Wake Music Festival in 2000′
The Late Colorblind James at the Grassroots Festival 1996
