A brief review is presented of some of the things John Jamieson did while working with people involved with shock wave physics and equation of state at high pressure. This also includes work done on geophysical problems and equation-of-state problems that might not be included in the review articles published in this issue. The subjects covered are some recovery work, studies on rutile and rutile structures, gold standard, flash X ray crystal studies of shocked metals, volume effects on the Gruneisen parameter, equation of state of oxygen, and measurement of Poisson's ratio at high pressure. Although most of these topics are not all directly related to shock wave studies, they all were things that people working in shock wave physics were also investigating or were directly involved with John in his studies.