Jimmi Seiter
| Jimmi Seiter | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | James Duke Seiter |
| Born |
May 2, 1945 St. Louis, Missouri United States |
| Genres | Rock, R&B |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, Road manager, Percussionist, Associate producer, Architect |
| Instruments | Drums, percussion |
| Associated acts | The Byrds, Gram Parsons, The Flying Burrito Brothers |
Jimmi Seiter (born James Duke Seiter May 2, 1945 in St. Louis, Missouri) has worked as a musician, tour manager, artist manager, music producer, sound designer, stage producer and architect.
Seiter is probably best known for his work as road manager, associate producer and touring percussionist with The Byrds and as road manager for The Flying Burrito Brothers with Gram Parsons in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Seiter’s musical interests developed at an early age while growing up in St Louis. With encouragement from his parents and two brothers who were playing trumpet and piano, Jimmi decided upon drums as his instrument of choice and he quickly developed a keen sense of rhythm and natural timing. His first exposure to live performance soon followed with school recitals on the Admiral cruise boats on the Mississippi in the early 1950s.
As rock and roll music swept into Middle America, Seiter began absorbing many of his earliest influences from that era, which included the music of Bill Haley, Sam Cooke, Ricky Nelson and Elvis Presley. High School provided Seiter with exposure to many more like-minded musicians and he would spend much time hanging out at music rehearsals with his brother Joe’s big band style dance band. Seiter's elder brother John Seiter achieved success as a drummer, recording with Spanky and Our Gang in 1967.
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