660 - SWEET SENSATION

 

 

CLICK ON PICTURE TO GO HOME

THAYER - St JAMES, SANTA CRUZ, THUNDERMOTHER, THE HU, WILD AMERICA, MONO INC., MIC, BLIND GAURDIAN,WARKING, TYPE O NEG, CHEZ KANE, GRAVE DIGGER, MACHINE HEAD, WHISKET MYERS, MEGADEATH

"TOP 11 COUNTDOWN WITH "

" WORK "

THAYER - St JAMES, SANTA CRUZ, THUNDERMOTHER, THE HU, WILD AMERICA, MONO INC., MIC, BLIND GAURDIAN,WARKING, TYPE O NEG, CHEZ KANE, GRAVE DIGGER, MACHINE HEAD, WHISKET MYERS, MEGADEATH

"TOP 11 COUNTDOWN WITH "

" WORK "

ROCKSTORY

"(THAYER - St JAMES BIOGRAPHY)"

"Jaime St. James , born January 27, 1960 is the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the glam metal band Black 'N Blue. It was during high school that Jamie met his then-classmate and fellow musician, Thomas Cunningham Thayer who was born November 7, 1960 and is an American musician and songwriter The two created a friendship that has lasted to the present. In November 1981 James and Thayer formed Movie Star, a band that ultimately evolved into Black 'n Blue, which gave the two their first taste of mainstream success. They have now released unearthed recordings from the late 80s. Thayer and St. James issued The Lost Tapes independently and is available only through them. The Lost Tapes is aimed for the ‘diehards’ and BLACK ‘N BLUE ‘fanatics’. The album is composed of songs that were cut by Tommy Thayer and Jaime St. James after BLACK ‘N BLUE was let go by Geffen Records. St. James explained, “It’s songs that Tommy and I wrote. It’s what we started doing after Geffen [Records] had dropped us. So, we started working on some new songs to try to get another deal. GENE SIMMONS who had Simmons Records was working with us at the time, and he would have put us on his label. These recordings were originally paid for by Gene but we didn’t follow through with anything because Tommy quit the band. So once Tommy left, we owed Gene some money. Since then, Gene has given everything back to Tommy and me. He was like “It’s all yours guys. Do what you want with these recordings.” The duo performs on The Lost Tapes mostly with some appearances from BLACK ‘N BLUE bassist PATRICK YOUNG, PAT REGAN [producer and engineer] and [Portland, Oregon] guitarist JEFF LABANSKY, who had replaced JEFF WARNER. Also featured is guitarist MITCH PERRY. Labansky received co-writing credit on the track “Sweet Sensation”, one of the highlights on The Lost Tapes. With songs like, “American Man”, “Time” and “Ballad Of The Bullet”, Jaime St. James is doing something a little different here, still very much BLACK ‘N BLUE but he sounds like he’s channeling JANI LANE vocally, who ironically he’d go on to replace in WARRANT a few years later. Jaime St. James also played drums for the Kiss tribute band called Cold Gin, playing the role of Peter Criss. Tommy Thayer, was also in Cold Gin, playing the role of Ace Frehley. Jamie co-wrote one Kiss song with Gene Simmons and Scott Van Zen: "In My Head", which appeared on their album Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions. He also served briefly in the mid-2000s as the lead singer of Warrant, but he left upon the return of the band's original lead singer Jani Lane in 2008. He sang (as well as wrote or co-wrote half of the albums tracks) on Warrant's 2006 album Born Again. Although no longer a permanent member of the band, Thayer has performed periodically with the other original members of Black 'n Blue for several one-off reunion and benefit concerts In 2003 Thayer became the lead guitarist for Kiss replacing Ace Frehley. "