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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Jeff Stevens, Jimpeter.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Rick, Jimpeterrick, How the heck are you?
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:04):
I'm living the dream, baby.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, you sure are living the dream, still putting out
great music. I loved listening to the new song your
Own Hero with Mike Reno.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Well, Mike Reno is a force in nature, you know,
he really is what a singer, and he's on the
road now with Sammy Hagar. He just keeps going. Yeah,
and I wrote the song, you know, I try to
tailor these songs to the person I'm going to be
working with. Yeah, and you wrote Own Hero. I wrote
(00:36):
that with with Mike Reno in mind, so that always helps.
And I send it to him and he says, I
love this song. We should kind of sing it together.
I said, I can't hit those high notes, but I
wedged myself in there here and there. But Mike Reno
(00:56):
one of my favorite voices since since you. I had
some More and Survivor were touring with Lover Boy back
in the day. They were always just killing it, you
know on stage. Yeah, and Reno's voice, you immediately know
Mike Reno is singing. He haits this special sound, you.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Know, Yeah, he absolutely does.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I was previewing the song and before I saw that
Mike Reno was on it, and I'm like, that sounds
like Mike Reno and then yes, of course that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's Mike Greno.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
And we had we had lover Boy in for a
show last summer and it was Yeah, I was like,
holy cow, he's still just up there, just belting out
these songs. And I'm sure he was thinking, you know,
back in the early eighties, in mid eighties, I mean
it hit hits for a long time. I'm sure now
he's thinking, why did I sing those songs so high?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You know, he can do it, but he can do it,
still do it, You can still do this. It is amazing,
you know, force the nature, you know, God's gift of
a vocalist.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Really truly, truly. Jim Peterick of course, Grammy Award winning
singer and songwriter and guitar a co founder of Survivor
of course, IDEs of March and your hand and or
will your hands literally of writing or on the guitar
or voice is on so many songs. And I've had
(02:14):
a chance to talk to you before over the years,
more songs than people realize.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Without question.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, there's a lot of them, you know, and I've
been blessed to write with great collaborators like Sammy Hagar
and thirty eight Special and of course The IDEs of
March and on and on. Really, you know, I could
write a song on my own, but when you get
together with a Jeff Carlysi and Don Burns, you come
(02:40):
up with something that you wouldn't have written for yourself. Yeah,
I was kind of credit. I take partial credit for
the combination of Southern rock and Midwestern rock with thirty
eight Special because they were the Southern guys and they
brought that flavor and I kind of brought the Midwestern
flavor to it as well, So it was really special.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And you know, for those those listening out there, I mean, obviously, Jim,
you know burning Heart Searches Over, I Can't Hold Back?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Is this Love?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
All the Survivor songs, But you wrote Caught Up in
You and hold On Loosely, you Keep Running Away, the
thirty eight Special hits, I mean, those are some of
the most iconic songs that group that I just read
there are some of the most iconic songs of the
whole decade.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's really funny, only you would would name check keep
on running Away because that was a Deep cut and
I love.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
That song you keep runing Away.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yes, God bless you. I love that you remember that song.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yes, yes, absolutely, I am. I am through and through
and Deep Survivor cuts and Deep thirty eight special cuts.
So you know in my later years where I've I've
learned like, oh, well, of course this perfectly makes sense.
The same guy's writing the songs for both of them,
and that's why I like him so much. So that's
that's really cool to talk to you again, Jim. And
you've got a new album which is called Roots and
(04:05):
Shoots Volume two, and you're collaborating. Obviously we mentioned Mike Reno,
but some other great voices on there too, like Jason
Chef and the list goes on.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, Toby Hitchcinck, who's my inspiration. Oh, Jason is amazing.
And of course Neil Danell. You've got a former in Chicago,
the band Chicago singer and the current Chicago singer, Neil Donnell.
Really an honor, you know, writing for those voices actually
the sung until it's a code write with with me
(04:37):
and Neil. Uh. He sent me a song and I
said Neil, no offense. It's a great verse, but the chorus,
I think I could do better. Go ahead, So I
wrote the chorus that you hear on the song until
and he goes hell yeah. So you know, it was
(05:00):
really a great collaboration. He didn't hesitate saying try it.
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah. Well, and a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You know, when you really think about Jason Chef, he
was I mean, I'm guessing here, but I think he
was the vocalist of Chicago longer than anybody.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
He was. You know what what a lineage was his
dad being Jerry Chef of Elvis Fame. Yeah, bass player,
I mean, no wonder. I mean, he's his own entity.
What a great what a great heritage.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You know, absolutely well.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And I think it's cool that obviously writing for Mike
Reno of Lover Boy, Jason Chef of Chicago and Neil
and everybody else, and then the folks you wrote with
on your Volume one like Kelly Kegey of Night Ranger
and Don Barnes and Mark Farner and some of these
amazing names. And that's cool that you can really craft
a song based on, you know, knowing who you're going
(05:53):
to write it for.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
You're right. I guess I'm kind of a chameleon in
that way, you know, And you know that's part of
what I do. It was part of my problem with
the Eyes of March because we had the big hitten
called vehicle, and then we were scrambling for who we
were because I was writing all over the place side
(06:15):
I didn't have a producer. I had a producer, but
no one to keep me in line, to really keep
me on track for what the Eydes of March were.
But that's another story because I'm all over the board.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
But you're all over the board in a good way.
In a good way, my friend. And you know what,
I think it would be remiss without mentioning the late
Jimmy Jamison, because the last time I chatted with you,
I don't know, it's maybe been ten years. It was
about the time that we lost Jimmy, such an incredible voice,
and I think you guys were putting together like a
benefit concert in Nashville or something at the time, if
(06:49):
I recall, or just like a concert to honor him,
and I think Reno was coming in for that. But
obviously some you have just worked with some of the
most amazing vocalists of all time.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well yeah, and Jimmy's at the top of the list.
And this is kind of an announcement that I haven't
told anybody or maybe a couple of people, but I'm
telling you that a new Jimmy Wayne Jamison album just draft,
as they say nowadays, and it's produced by me. It's
it's a treasure trove of songs that nobody ever heard
(07:22):
no way, yeah, I mean, and it's incredible. And it's
twelve songs that I produced about a year before he
died and he was still in great voice. I mean,
well he was till the day he died, you know.
But just wait for it. It's really special. So that
(07:44):
just just came out on Iconoclassic Records, which is a
new label. You're going to love this.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Oh my goodness. I literally got chills when you were
saying that. I definitely, So is it out out? I
mean we could find it now.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
It's out out as of yesterday. Wow. Yeah, it's pretty
damn new.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
So yeah, we're like hot off the presses. I'm really
glad that I happened to bring that up, and thank
you for sharing that too. I will absolutely go find
that because truly his voice. I mean, you want to
talk about one that jumps off the radio and everything
he touches. Man, that was a big loss and he
was way too, way too young.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah. The album's called Jimmy Wayne Jamison, Okay, and that's
the name of the record. I Couno Classic Records, which
I'm really proud of this album, and a quarter of
the proceeds go to his family, so you know it's
all for the right reasons.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Really, that's so awesome.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Well, Jim, thank you for sharing that. Jim Peterick of
Survivor and the list goes on and on and on.
Check out the new album, Roots and Shoots Volume two.
So great to catch up with you again. Man, glad
you're still making this great music.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Let's not making another years dude.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
All right, how about next summer. How's that sound perfect?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Thank you, Jim. Good talking to you again, my friend.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Thank you. I'll get to my friends.
Hey, Jeff Stevens, Jimpeter.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Rick, Jimpeterrick, How the heck are you?
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:04):
I'm living the dream, baby.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, you sure are living the dream, still putting out
great music. I loved listening to the new song your
Own Hero with Mike Reno.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Well, Mike Reno is a force in nature, you know,
he really is what a singer, and he's on the
road now with Sammy Hagar. He just keeps going. Yeah,
and I wrote the song, you know, I try to
tailor these songs to the person I'm going to be
working with. Yeah, and you wrote Own Hero. I wrote
(00:36):
that with with Mike Reno in mind, so that always helps.
And I send it to him and he says, I
love this song. We should kind of sing it together.
I said, I can't hit those high notes, but I
wedged myself in there here and there. But Mike Reno
(00:56):
one of my favorite voices since since you. I had
some More and Survivor were touring with Lover Boy back
in the day. They were always just killing it, you
know on stage. Yeah, and Reno's voice, you immediately know
Mike Reno is singing. He haits this special sound, you.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Know, Yeah, he absolutely does.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I was previewing the song and before I saw that
Mike Reno was on it, and I'm like, that sounds
like Mike Reno and then yes, of course that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's Mike Greno.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
And we had we had lover Boy in for a
show last summer and it was Yeah, I was like,
holy cow, he's still just up there, just belting out
these songs. And I'm sure he was thinking, you know,
back in the early eighties, in mid eighties, I mean
it hit hits for a long time. I'm sure now
he's thinking, why did I sing those songs so high?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You know, he can do it, but he can do it,
still do it, You can still do this. It is amazing,
you know, force the nature, you know, God's gift of
a vocalist.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Really truly, truly. Jim Peterick of course, Grammy Award winning
singer and songwriter and guitar a co founder of Survivor
of course, IDEs of March and your hand and or
will your hands literally of writing or on the guitar
or voice is on so many songs. And I've had
(02:14):
a chance to talk to you before over the years,
more songs than people realize.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Without question.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, there's a lot of them, you know, and I've
been blessed to write with great collaborators like Sammy Hagar
and thirty eight Special and of course The IDEs of
March and on and on. Really, you know, I could
write a song on my own, but when you get
together with a Jeff Carlysi and Don Burns, you come
(02:40):
up with something that you wouldn't have written for yourself. Yeah,
I was kind of credit. I take partial credit for
the combination of Southern rock and Midwestern rock with thirty
eight Special because they were the Southern guys and they
brought that flavor and I kind of brought the Midwestern
flavor to it as well, So it was really special.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And you know, for those those listening out there, I mean, obviously, Jim,
you know burning Heart Searches Over, I Can't Hold Back?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Is this Love?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
All the Survivor songs, But you wrote Caught Up in
You and hold On Loosely, you Keep Running Away, the
thirty eight Special hits, I mean, those are some of
the most iconic songs that group that I just read
there are some of the most iconic songs of the
whole decade.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's really funny, only you would would name check keep
on running Away because that was a Deep cut and
I love.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
That song you keep runing Away.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yes, God bless you. I love that you remember that song.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yes, yes, absolutely, I am. I am through and through
and Deep Survivor cuts and Deep thirty eight special cuts.
So you know in my later years where I've I've
learned like, oh, well, of course this perfectly makes sense.
The same guy's writing the songs for both of them,
and that's why I like him so much. So that's
that's really cool to talk to you again, Jim. And
you've got a new album which is called Roots and
(04:05):
Shoots Volume two, and you're collaborating. Obviously we mentioned Mike Reno,
but some other great voices on there too, like Jason
Chef and the list goes on.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, Toby Hitchcinck, who's my inspiration. Oh, Jason is amazing.
And of course Neil Danell. You've got a former in Chicago,
the band Chicago singer and the current Chicago singer, Neil Donnell.
Really an honor, you know, writing for those voices actually
the sung until it's a code write with with me
(04:37):
and Neil. Uh. He sent me a song and I
said Neil, no offense. It's a great verse, but the chorus,
I think I could do better. Go ahead, So I
wrote the chorus that you hear on the song until
and he goes hell yeah. So you know, it was
(05:00):
really a great collaboration. He didn't hesitate saying try it.
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah. Well, and a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You know, when you really think about Jason Chef, he
was I mean, I'm guessing here, but I think he
was the vocalist of Chicago longer than anybody.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
He was. You know what what a lineage was his
dad being Jerry Chef of Elvis Fame. Yeah, bass player,
I mean, no wonder. I mean, he's his own entity.
What a great what a great heritage.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You know, absolutely well.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And I think it's cool that obviously writing for Mike
Reno of Lover Boy, Jason Chef of Chicago and Neil
and everybody else, and then the folks you wrote with
on your Volume one like Kelly Kegey of Night Ranger
and Don Barnes and Mark Farner and some of these
amazing names. And that's cool that you can really craft
a song based on, you know, knowing who you're going
(05:53):
to write it for.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
You're right. I guess I'm kind of a chameleon in
that way, you know, And you know that's part of
what I do. It was part of my problem with
the Eyes of March because we had the big hitten
called vehicle, and then we were scrambling for who we
were because I was writing all over the place side
(06:15):
I didn't have a producer. I had a producer, but
no one to keep me in line, to really keep
me on track for what the Eydes of March were.
But that's another story because I'm all over the board.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
But you're all over the board in a good way.
In a good way, my friend. And you know what,
I think it would be remiss without mentioning the late
Jimmy Jamison, because the last time I chatted with you,
I don't know, it's maybe been ten years. It was
about the time that we lost Jimmy, such an incredible voice,
and I think you guys were putting together like a
benefit concert in Nashville or something at the time, if
(06:49):
I recall, or just like a concert to honor him,
and I think Reno was coming in for that. But
obviously some you have just worked with some of the
most amazing vocalists of all time.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well yeah, and Jimmy's at the top of the list.
And this is kind of an announcement that I haven't
told anybody or maybe a couple of people, but I'm
telling you that a new Jimmy Wayne Jamison album just draft,
as they say nowadays, and it's produced by me. It's
it's a treasure trove of songs that nobody ever heard
(07:22):
no way, yeah, I mean, and it's incredible. And it's
twelve songs that I produced about a year before he
died and he was still in great voice. I mean,
well he was till the day he died, you know.
But just wait for it. It's really special. So that
(07:44):
just just came out on Iconoclassic Records, which is a
new label. You're going to love this.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Oh my goodness. I literally got chills when you were
saying that. I definitely, So is it out out? I
mean we could find it now.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
It's out out as of yesterday. Wow. Yeah, it's pretty
damn new.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
So yeah, we're like hot off the presses. I'm really
glad that I happened to bring that up, and thank
you for sharing that too. I will absolutely go find
that because truly his voice. I mean, you want to
talk about one that jumps off the radio and everything
he touches. Man, that was a big loss and he
was way too, way too young.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah. The album's called Jimmy Wayne Jamison, Okay, and that's
the name of the record. I Couno Classic Records, which
I'm really proud of this album, and a quarter of
the proceeds go to his family, so you know it's
all for the right reasons.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Really, that's so awesome.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Well, Jim, thank you for sharing that. Jim Peterick of
Survivor and the list goes on and on and on.
Check out the new album, Roots and Shoots Volume two.
So great to catch up with you again. Man, glad
you're still making this great music.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Let's not making another years dude.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
All right, how about next summer. How's that sound perfect?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Thank you, Jim. Good talking to you again, my friend.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Thank you. I'll get to my friends.
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