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James William Lindberg (born July 26, 1965) is a vocalist and guitarist from the United States. Lindberg has been active since the 1980s, when he began his career playing in local bands. He is most known for being the singer and composer of the renowned punk rock band Pennywise, which he was a part of from 1988 until 2009 before rejoining in 2012. He also fronts and plays guitar in The Black Pacific, a band that debuted in 2010 with a first album.

 Lindberg, along with dead bassist Jason Thirsk, was responsible for promoting Pennywise’s theme of positive mental attitude and self-reliance as the band’s primary songwriter. Lindberg, who studied English at UCLA, credited American transcendentalist thinkers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau as influencing his songs. Lindberg’s lyrics frequently mirrored the transcendentalist philosophy of living life by one’s own standards and without according to the materialistic limitations of contemporary society or the restraints of authority, with song names like “My Own Way,” “It’s Up to Me,” “Date With Destiny,” and “My Own Country.”

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