New Jimi Jamison Archives solo album

[TageRyche]

Apparently Iconoclassic Records will be releasing Jimmy Wayne Jamison, the 2nd solo CD from the Jimi Jamison Archive series on August 23rd.

It's a country rock album that was reportedly recorded in 2007. While the songs are billed as all being previously unreleased, I'm pretty sure three of them were released by Jim Peterik through Pride of Lions.

For the full details and the pre-order link, check out this link.

[Journey/Survivor]

Apparently Iconoclassic Records will be releasing Jimmy Wayne Jamison, the 2nd solo CD from the Jimi Jamison Archive series on August 23rd.

It's a country rock album that was reportedly recorded in 2007. While the songs are billed as all being previously unreleased, I'm pretty sure three of them were released by Jim Peterik through Pride of Lions.

For the full details and the pre-order link, check out this link.

Thanks for the info!

That's great news! Even though I'm not a Country music fan.

[def]

I WANNA TOUCH YOU THERE has been on Extra Moments...

[Journey/Survivor]

I WANNA TOUCH YOU THERE has been on Extra Moments...

Yes it was. But the info for the CD says that these are going to be recordings that have never been heard. So my guess is that they will have a different take or mix of the song that is not the one that's on Extra Moments?

[Andrew]

Different

[youkeepmewaiting]

https://www.amazon.com/Jimmy-Wayne-Jami ... B0D6GY14WP


I remember at least Come Dancing on his MySpace page - that was a nice song

[Journey/Survivor]

My copy of the new CD arrived on Friday. I gave it one listen so far and read all of the liner notes.
The album certainly isn't as great as most of Jimi's other albums, but it's still pretty good, and I'm glad to have it!

Thank you Jeremy Holiday!

[Journey/Survivor]

Now if only the album that Jamison recorded with Steve Cox would be released/rescued!!!
A number of other Jamison demos as well!

Power Over Me is an awesome song.

[TageRyche]

I haven't been able to order a copy yet but I hope to pick it up soon.

[TageRyche]

I was finally able to get around to doing a review of the Jimmy Wayne Jamison album.

You can check out what I had to say HERE!

[Journey/Survivor]

To be honest, I'm just posting this because it's depressing how long it's been since anyone last posted in the Survivor forum. I just wanted to see a new post made.

Any of my fellow Survivor fans still around?

[19td73]

To be honest, I'm just posting this because it's depressing how long it's been since anyone last posted in the Survivor forum. I just wanted to see a new post made.

Any of my fellow Survivor fans still around?

Hey have you seen this?

https://frontiers.shop/products/jimi-ja ... XL9amfybLW

[Journey/Survivor]

To be honest, I'm just posting this because it's depressing how long it's been since anyone last posted in the Survivor forum. I just wanted to see a new post made.

Any of my fellow Survivor fans still around?

Hey have you seen this?

https://frontiers.shop/products/jimi-ja ... XL9amfybLW

No. I was not aware of it. Thank you for mentioning it!

[19td73]

To be honest, I'm just posting this because it's depressing how long it's been since anyone last posted in the Survivor forum. I just wanted to see a new post made.

Any of my fellow Survivor fans still around?

Hey have you seen this?

https://frontiers.shop/products/jimi-ja ... XL9amfybLW

No. I was not aware of it. Thank you for mentioning it!

Yeah I'm getting this for sure. Just found a download site that had his Firefest concert for my collection. Jimi and the band sounded excellent! Hope this release is just as good. Probably will, Jimi rules!

[TageRyche]

Hey have you seen this?

https://frontiers.shop/products/jimi-ja ... XL9amfybLW

I hadn't heard of this either. I'm not a huge supporter of live albums anymore but I would consider getting this one.

[Journey/Survivor]

Have any of you heard the album yet? My copy arrived on Thursday. I haven't listened to it yet, but I will on Saturday.

[19td73]

Have any of you heard the album yet? My copy arrived on Thursday. I haven't listened to it yet, but I will on Saturday.

Yes! I think its awesome, well worth the purchase of course! I picked this up on amazon as an mp3 purchase with this also River Of The Music - The Power Of Duets - Vol.1
Jim Peterik and World Stage (Artist) . Very suprised with Peterik on this one. Great album!

Hey if you don't mind can you describe the booklet that comes with the cd? Does it list the musicians and where these cuts were recorded? Thanks in advance!

[Journey/Survivor]

Have any of you heard the album yet? My copy arrived on Thursday. I haven't listened to it yet, but I will on Saturday.

Yes! I think its awesome, well worth the purchase of course! I picked this up on amazon as an mp3 purchase with this also River Of The Music - The Power Of Duets - Vol.1
Jim Peterik and World Stage (Artist) . Very suprised with Peterik on this one. Great album!

Hey if you don't mind can you describe the booklet that comes with the cd? Does it list the musicians and where these cuts were recorded? Thanks in advance!

It's a good booklet. It's similar to the Rock Candy releases, if you have any of those? It has photos and interviews in it similar to Rock Candy or Escape Music CD releases

The band lineup was...

Jimi Jamison: Lead Vocals
Chris Adomson: Guitar
Hal Butler: Keyboards
Jeff Adams: Bass
Pete Mandillo: Drums.

It was recorded at 3 different shows during May and June of 1998 in Little Rock, Arkansas, Nashville, Tennessee, and Bettendorf, Iowa.

If you want or need any background on any of Jimi's band members, I can give you some.

Oh, and the guy who co-produced this album with Jamison is named Wes Henley, and he guested on at least one performance.

The guy who conducted the interviews is Matt Wardlaw who is from the Cleveland area. I coincidentally met him about 30 years ago at a coffee shop in Parma Heights. I was sitting there on the outdoor patio talking about Survivor with a group of my friends who also were fans of the band, And Matt overheard me say something about the Caught In The Game album. He knew that we were Survivor fans, so he introduced himself and said that he was a big Survivor fan as well. I would run into him at concerts after that.

One of the Jamison concerts that he mentioned in the booklet of this new album was when Jamison did a show here in Cleveland that Kansas also played.
I watched Kansas do their show while standing on the side of the stage with Jamison. That was the third time that I had gotten to hangout with Jimi and his band. Jamison gave me a backstage pass after that show, and gave me a few other backstage passes again for different tours after that.

[Journey/Survivor]

After posting that, I realized that I may have possibly misunderstood which album you were asking about.

Were you referring to the Jimmy Wayne Jamison CD? The info I gave is about the 1998 Live Hits album.

If so, I'll give you some of that info too.

[19td73]

After posting that, I realized that I may have possibly misunderstood which album you were asking about.

Were you referring to the Jimmy Wayne Jamison CD? The info I gave is about the 1998 Live Hits album.

If so, I'll give you some of that info too.

Yes i was looking for info on 1998 Live Hits cd. Thank you! My copy from amazon was delayed so i cancelled it and got the mp3 version. Might pick up the cd at a local record store near me cause i do like getting the physical copy of my favorite artists. Also I do have the Jimmy Wayne cd and love it. Cool story about meeting Jimi backstage years prior, please share more of those encounters here if you can. Thanks again and take care!

[Journey/Survivor]

I was already a huge Rocky fan at about 6 or 7 years old. I was born in early 1972. And by the age of 10 in 1982 I was really pumped to go see Rocky III in a theater. As Eye Of The Tiger started, which was my first time hearing it, it instantly grabbed my attention. I was hooked on the song from the very first moment.

My love of both the Rocky franchise and Survivor's music continued to grow with each passing movie and album to the point of near obsession.

Anyway, to skip ahead to the main point, I can't remember for certain now if it was 1992 or 1993, but I heard that Survivor were getting back together. A good friend of mine had a friend who knew Jim Peterik, and we found out about the reunion before it was officially announced.

When we first found out about the reunion it was said that the Survivor lineup was going to be Jimi Jamison on lead vocals and Frankie Sullivan on guitar, and that Peterik was still going to write songs for the band, but not be part of the touring band. We did not know who would be on drums or bass.

Eventually we got an update that Peterik would be part of the touring band as well.

Then in the late winter or early spring of 1993 we were told that Survivor were on the road, but that it was Dave Bickler on lead vocals, not Jamison.

A few days later we found out that "Survivor" were booked to do a show in Dayton, Ohio. That same friend of mine and two other friends of mine drove down to Dayton for the show. We were assuming that the band we were about to see was Survivor with Bickler, Sullivan and Peterik.

When we got to the venue there was a band photo posted by the door that had Jimi Jamison and 4 guys who we had never seen before. We didn't know what the hell was going on?

One of my friends then started talking to Bill Marshall who was the bands drummer. He told my friend that Jamison had his own band that he was calling Survivor.
When my friend mentioned that we had just driven all of the way from Cleveland to Dayton, Bill Marshall was impressed by our dedication as fans, so he asked if we wanted to meet Jamison.
He took us out to the tour bus before the show and let us onto the bus and we spoke with Jamison for a while.

After the show we were allowed back on to the bus again and we spoke with Jimi for a longer amount of time than before the show.
After the show we told Jamison that he should try to book a show in Cleveland, and he told us that he did have a show booked in Cleveland, it just wasn't announced yet.

We stayed there talking with Jimi and his band until they left the venue a couple of hours after the show.
I had driven my friends and myself to the show in my car. I had to be to work the next morning at 9:00 AM. We didn't leave the venue to head home until like 3:00 AM. I didn't get home until 7:00 AM, so I just stayed up and then went to work. I didn't get to bed that night until about midnight. It had been close to 48 hours since I had slept.

So, a few weeks later Jamison did a Memorial Day weekend show in Cleveland's flats. Jimi spotted me and my friends in the crowd and he then let us backstage after the show. We hung out with him and his band for quite a while backstage.

A couple of months later Survivor with Bickler, Sullivan and Peterik did a show in Pennsylvania. I again drove my friends and I to that show. We got to talk with Bickler and Peterik after the show. Sullivan was uninterested in talking to us, I guess?

A couple of months after that, Jimi was back in Cleveland again sharing the bill with Kansas. After the show we passed a note backstage to Jimi mentioning who we were. So he came out and found my friend and I and took us backstage with him, and we then stood on the side of the stage with Jimi and Bill Marshall watching Kansas perform. We then hung out with Jimi and his band backstage after Kansas finished playing. And that was the first time that he gave my friend and I backstage passes.

A couple of years then went by before Jimi was back in Cleveland again. So the very next time he was in Cleveland, roughly 2 years since the last time we had last seen him, as he was walking to the stage to do the show, he saw me and said "Hey, I know you." I was surprised that he still remembered me two years later. So after the show he was being mobbed by fans, but he made a point to talk to me, and he told me to hangout backstage again.
On that occasion I had taken two Target records and the Cobra record that were all in mint to near mint condition with me to get autographed. Jimi was telling me that he didn't have those records anymore and jokingly asked if I wanted to sell them to him. He gave me some personalized autographs on the records.
Anyway, he once again gave me an updated backstage pass.

It was about another two more years that went by before he was back in Northeast Ohio again. He was then doing a show with Loverboy in Amish Country south of Canton. I got a message back to him about who I was, and he had his security guy let me and a few friends of mine backstage again before the show started. I wound up going out into the crowd to watch the show from there. But after the show I went backstage again with a couple of my friends. Jimi had already performed, but Loverboy were about to go on.

Paul Dean of Loverboy was sitting in a chair tuning his guitar. As he tuned the guitar I started talking to him. He thought that my friend and I were maybe in an opening band. I did have very long hair at the time, and he didn't figure that any fans would be backstage, so we must have been from an opening band. We got some photos taken of us with Loverboy as well.

My friend and I stood off to the side of the outdoor stage and watched Loverboy with Jimi. At one point Paul Dean started playing a long guitar solo, so Mike Reno came over to talk to Jimi. A friend of mine who was sitting in the crowd took a photo of me and our other friend while we stood there on the side area of the stage with Jamison and Reno.

After that Jimi went back into Survivor. Sullivan made it difficult for Jamison to allow fans backstage, so most of the time at those shows I was only getting to briefly speak with Jimi. One of the Survivor shows after Jamison rejoined Survivor was at a casino, and a friend of mine and myself did walk around the casino with Jimi after the show and played some slot machines with him.

I got to have multiple long discussions with Peterik, Bickler and Droubay, as well as Chris Grove. One of the times that I spoke with Peterik was that Survivor show in 1993, and another occasion was after an Ides Of March show. I very, very briefly spoke with Stephan Ellis once. I did speak with Sullivan a few times, but it was very brief on all of those occasions.

As far as musicians, most of the ones that I've met are from my favorite bands, Survivor, Journey, Bad English, The Storm, Foreigner, Night Ranger, Loverboy, 38 Special, etc, etc.

Obviously there are people on here who've gotten to know a lot of those musicians a lot better than I have. Andrew has, of course. And there are others. But it was pretty cool for me, and it's fun to think back to the occasions.
I don't really care if I meet a celebrity no matter how big of a celebrity they are unless I am a fan of them. I much rather hangout with Jimi than someone who's ultra famous if I'm not a fan.

Anyway, like I said, there are of course people on here like Andrew or in the past Joe Vana who got to know a lot of those guys a hell of a lot better than I did. But it's fun to think back to those days, especially since some of those concerts were long road trips with good friends of mine, two of whom have died since then. And of Course Jimi as well.