After a courageous 4 year battle with brain cancer, Jim transitioned peacefully from his life on earth to his eternal home on
the afternoon of July 17, 2009 at his parent's home in Bellvue CO. Jim was born in Long Beach, CA, on September 10, 1971 to
Mike and Judy Jackson. He was a creative, imaginative and artistic little boy. When Jimi was age 7, his family moved to Bellvue, CO.
and he began playing drums much to the delight of his mother.
Jimi played drums and sang in several bands as a teenager. He even inspired his sister Joy to start singing. Joy is now an extremely
accomplished musician herself! Jimi loved to draw and won several distinguished awards for his outstanding drawings. He loved to go
mountain biking, mountain climbing and back packing with his friends up Long's Peak. He loved the ocean and treasured his time at the
family cabin near Yellowstone.
He always had such an appreciation for life and clear vision of what he wanted to do-play music. When asked to move to Los Angeles to
join his friends and band mates, Troy and Taylor Duffy, in their musical endeavors, he headed out West.
By the summer of 1997, his band, The Boondock Saints, was being courted by several major record labels. They signed with
Lava Atlantic Records and recorded their first album at Longview Farms studio outside of Boston.
In October 2001, Jimi married Jodi Gregory in Malibu, CA. His band split up so the couple moved to Austin, TX, in 2002.
Jimi joined SunMachine and began playing shows with b& mates Mitch Armstrong, Jason James and Rob Rosson at local venues
and in Colorado.
His life was forever altered on March 9, 2005 when an MRI revealed a cancerous brain tumor. After surgery and treatments, he was
in remission until Oct 2008 when he received the unsettling news that his cancer had returned. He had another surgery in Nov '08
and began undergoing intense chemotherapy treatments. In May of 2009, Jodi and Jimi returned to Bellvue, CO, to be with Jimi's parents
after they were told the chemo treatments were not working.
