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Musical Information

  Name Jim Diamond
  Background non_performing_personnel
  Birth Name
  Instrument Vocals , Bass Guitar
  Genre Indie Rock
  Occupation Audio Engineer , Record Producer
  Years Active 1995 &ndash present
  Label Ghetto Recorders
  Associated Acts The Dirtbombs , The Fleshtones , The Go , The Ponys , The White Stripes Paik The High Strung


Jim Diamond is a veteran Music Producer , Studio Engineer , and Bass Player based in Detroit, Michigan .


BACKGROUND

Diamond was a longtime member of perennial Detroit favorite band The Dirtbombs garnering one of the few non-Mick Collins lead vocals on the track "I'm Through With White Girls," which is to this day a live favorite (though now sung by Ben Blackwell ), as well as appearing in different versions on Dangerous Magical Noise and Sympathetic Sounds of Detroit.


Collaborations

On the Motorcity Brewing Works' live compilation "GhettoBlaster," Diamond appeared as the front man for "Jim Diamond's Pop Monsoon." As Proprietor and chief engineer at Ghetto Recorders , Diamond has worked with, and in some cases helped launch the careers of, several well-known Indie Rock performers, including The High Strung , The Dirtbombs, The Fleshtones , Electric Six , The Witches , Bantam Rooster , The Come Ons , The Volebeats , The Gore Gore Girls , The Mooney Suzuki , The Compulsive Gamblers , The Dirtys , The Ponys , The Silencers , The Go, Thee Emergency, Outrageous Cherry , Paik , The Clone Defects , They Come In Threes , The Sights , The White Stripes , and The Hentchmen .


Legal dispute

From 2004 to 2006, Diamond was involved in a heated legal battle with Jack White and The White Stripes over royalty payments, with Diamond claiming to have been a joint author of the master recordings he and the White Stripes created at Ghetto Recorders before the White Stripes became famous. In 2006, Jack White cited the legal battle with Diamond as one of his reasons for moving to Nashville.


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