SURVIVOR – Fire Makes Steel [The Unreleased 1993-96 Album with Dave Bickler]
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And as requested, here’s the ”lost” SURVIVOR album “Fire Makes Steel“, which are in fact the songs the band composed and demoed between 1993-1996 and never crystallized into an official release.
Few of these song ideas ended into the SURVIVOR’s album ‘Reach’, however most of the tracks remain unreleased… and how good, brilliant stuff they are.
After Jimi Jamison left the band for a solo career, in early 1993 Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan reunited with original lead singer Dave Bickler as SURVIVOR and released a new Greatest Hits album with two new songs and embarked on a world tour with Bill Syniar and Kyle Woodring returning on bass and drums, respectively. Klem Hayes, who had performed on the new tracks on the 1993 compilation, took over on bass in 1994 after Syniar departed.
As Jamison was also touring as Survivor, Peterik and Sullivan filed a lawsuit against their former colleague for using the name but ultimately failed (at the time) in their bid to stop Jamison from touring under the “Survivor” banner.
From 1993 to 1996, Peterik, Sullivan and Bickler recorded about several demos for a new album – the songs featured here on the Fire Makes Steel bootleg – with Syniar and Woodring and, later, original drummer Marc Droubay and bassist Stephan Ellis contributing. But they failed to secure a record deal due to ongoing litigation and trademark issues with Jamison.
Collector’s stuff
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
01 – Someone Else’s Sleepless Nights
02 – One Step Ahead Of A Flame
03 – No Boundary
04 – Strip For Me
05 – Innocence Of Love
06 – That’s What It Feels Like To Be In Love
07 – Rebel Girl
08 – Everything Turns On You
09 – Give It Up
10 – Feel The Memories
11 – Fire Makes Steel
12 – Nevertheless
13 – Jessica
14 – The Love We Never Made
15 – Seconds Away
16 – Lies
Jim Peterik – vocals, guitars, keyboards
Frankie Sullivan – vocals, guitars
Dave Bickler – vocals
Bill Syniar, Stephan Ellis – bass
Kyle Woodring, Marc Droubay – drums
Unreleased
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That is a truly awesome post. Lost songs from Survivor. Thank you!
I remember hearing this when it was first “leaked”. Interesting as a curiousity but sounds nothing like the Survivor of the early to mid 80s. I’m glad Jim Peterik finally quit in 1996