the official bio of tyreah james of three ton gate and The spooky chics

this is her story:

Tyreah James was born April 27, 1969 in Tiffin, Ohio and soon thereafter came to South Florida with her family who still reside here today. At the ripe old age of 5 years old, Tyreah memorized every lyric to every song on the Beatle's Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band record and has not stopped singing ever thereafter...

Her first band in High School was "Black Widow" , former members include the fallen members Lance Feign- drums-  Lance  was shot  and murdered  by a schoolmate  the same year he joined the band & Steve Miske- guitars-{ Steve Miske passed 2 years ago from complications of the liver due to excessive consumption }...

Tyreah spiralled into an Abyss of darkness  and withdrew with her music for a few years to follow
Music became the only escape for Tyreah and without it, she is not sure she would be alive today...

She reemmerged on the scene in 1989 - 1991 and began writing lyrics and assisting production for  Swedish guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen on the "Eclipse" sessions , but the alliance fell apart over disputes concerning song writing credits.

Tyreah picked up the pieces and moved on. In 1992 she formed Ritual Musick with Mikael D' Angelo (formerly of  the Hardcore band Pit Bully). Ritual Musick was a very dark and nefarious project that conveyed the Doom and Gloom she has experienced on a personal level after enduring a series of very tragic circumstances ..Ritual Musick has no recorded material and disbanded over creative/magickal  differences...
 

Tyreah soon met guitar player Stephen Guiffranti of a Glam Rock Hair Spray band called Terra Plane , whom  had a degree of success locally a few years earlier. Their mutual respect of Jimmy Page was a deciding factor in the  vocal/guitar recordings that would follow .. There were only 2 songs recorded from the collaboration, but it was clear after the playbacks of "Ritual of Midnight* and "Star" that Tyreah had something different... something unexplainable...

The songs are both light and dark; The Yin and Yang principle of perfect equilibrium musically.  She flies with the angels, she dances with the devil, weaving her spell on you...
 

She played these demo tapes for Scott Putesky ( Daisy Berkowitz) who had just finished his final project with Marilyn Manson and soon began rehearsing vocals for Scott's "Three Ton Gate" project.

Scott and Tyreah recorded her vocals for Three Ton Gate in only 4 evenings at 3 hours per song.  She was never satisfied with the production work of Nathaniel  Seidman on the disc and 2 of her tracks (" Honor & Hollywood's Heaven") were omitted and Scott's original versions were used instead....

It is said she actually cried during the playback of the Masters... she felt so much of her performance seemed to have been lost in the recording  process & final mix...The CD "Vanishing Century" was ready for distribution in October of 1997, however copies were actually available the following year , February 1998, AVAILABLE ONLY BY THE INTERNET!

The last I have heard, the disc is sold out, so if you have one, you may want to hold onto it... i.e. there will be no further pressings of the Vanishing Century CD.
 

Also, Tyreah is looking for her original recordings Of" Honor" and "Hollywood's Heaven", which are floating out there somewhere.

Scott sent out this original version of Vanishing Century on tape only to many frineds and record labels , so they are out there somewhere... Tyreah's copies were  stolen from her home by an overzealous fan..  if you know how she can get a copy of her own material please email her from the link on the index page...

 Tyreah  is writing new material and recording trax for her  new project.. The material is a Doom and Gloom Guitar and Keys project with elements of electronica and vocal infusion... The Sound Files will be here as soon as we get them published and protected on a sound files page accessed from the main page...

 Tyreah wants to thank everyone who cares enough about what she's doing to visit the site..
 

Music, Magick & Make-Up,
 

Tyreah James
 
 

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