Jason McCaslin

Jason McCaslin
Background information
Birth name Jason Paul McCaslin
Also known as Cone, Sniper, Thurston
Born (1980-09-03) September 3, 1980
North York, Ontario , Canada
Genres Pop punk, punk rock, alternative rock, garage rock, melodic hardcore
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter, producer
Instruments Bass guitar, vocals, Guitar
Years active 1998–present
Labels Island
Associated acts Sum 41, The Operation M.D., Iggy Pop, Gob, Shelter With Thieves, The Strumbellas
Notable instruments
Fender Precision Bass

Jason Paul "Cone" McCaslin (born September 3, 1980) is a Canadian musician. He is the bassist and backing vocalist of the band Sum 41 and Music Producer. He joined the band in November 1998/February 1999. Sum 41 was signed by Island Records in December 1999.

Early Life

McCaslin began playing bass at the age of 14, as a member of a grunge garage band called Second Opinion. He is of half-Irish, half-Swedish descent.[1]

He was born in North York, Toronto.

He acquired the nickname "Cone" from fellow band member Deryck Whibley in high school, because he frequently ate ice cream cones at lunch.[2][3]

Professional career

He co-created the Garage punk/rock side project The Operation M.D., with Todd Morse (of H2O), in which he is known under the name Dr. Dynamite. He plays bass and a bunch of other random instruments on the songs including lead vocals on a few tracks on both albums. The 1st album "We Have An Emergency" was released in Canada and Japan only in 2007. Operation M.D. then released their second album "Birds + Bee Stings" world wide in late 2010 on their own label "Mouth To Mouth Music". He has also acted in many Sum 41 short films. For example, in "Basketball Butcher", he gets beaten up, killed and eaten by Steve Jocz due to beating him at basketball. He also played Dante the drug dealer in "1-800-Justice". He recently helped produce an album with Shelter With Thieves, a Canadian band from Halifax.[4][5] The EP, entitled Confessions of a Toxic Generation, was nominated for 2 Nova Scotia Music Awards, for Group Recording and also Loud Recording.[6] The band eventually won the Loud Recording award for the EP.[7]

In December 2009, McCaslin was also producing 5 songs for a new album by Canadian piano rock band The Greatest Invention (Formally – Credible Witness), which eventually got released under Walter Senko.[8] Then in 2010 he began producing 3 songs for 7 Piece Blue grass/Folk/Indie band The Strumbellas. In Sept. 2011 he was asked to produce the rest of the album. The album is now completed and called "My Father and the Hunter". It was released on February 21, 2012 and received a Juno Award Nomination for Best Root/Traditional Album. In October 2013 McCaslin made a cameo playing bass in The Strumbellas music video for End of an Era. In 2013 McCaslin began working with Toronto band Sun K. and produced their 7" (2 songs) which is out now and will also produce their upcoming EP and LP over the next year. In 2014 McCaslin began producing 2 songs for the band "LeBarons" which will be released in 2015.

Sum 41

In 1999, the band signed an international record deal with Island Records. The band released their debut album, All Killer No Filler in 2001. The band achieved mainstream success with their first single from the album, "Fat Lip", which reached number-one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and remains the band's most successful single to date.[9] All Killer No Filler' was certified platinum in the United States, Canada and in the UK.[10] The band has since released four more studio albums: Does This Look Infected? (2002), Chuck (2004) Underclass Hero (2007) and Screaming Bloody Murder (2011). The three albums before Screaming Bloody Murder have been certified platinum in Canada.

The band often performs more than 300 times each year and holds long global tours, most of which last more than a year.[11] They have been nominated for seven Juno Awards and have won twice (Group of the Year in 2002 and Rock Album of the Year for Chuck in 2005). Their fifth studio album, Screaming Bloody Murder, was released on March 29, 2011 and is nominated for Grammy at the 2012 Grammy's for the song "Blood in My Eyes" in the Hard Rock/Metal category.

Producing (P)/Mixing (M) Discography

Instruments

Jason McCaslin uses Fender '59 Re-Issue Precision Basses live and a Fender American Vintage '62 Re-Issue Precision Bass to record with.

Personal life

He married on September 5, 2008. During the wedding, McCaslin's fellow band members Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 and Toby Morse of H2O and The Operation M.D. performed "One" by U2 and "Pieces" by Sum 41.

McCaslin has two sisters and no brothers. On December 22, 2014, his first son was born.

Discography

With Sum 41
With The Operation M.D.
With Iggy Pop

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Sum 41 official website @ IslandRecords.com – Home". June 24, 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
  2. ↑ "Sum 41 Biography Bio Pictures Brown Bizzy D Sound Stevo 32 Cone Pic". Retrieved 2008-04-24.
  3. ↑ "TheresNoSolution.com : Sum 41". Retrieved 2008-04-24.
  4. ↑ "Facebook Shelter with Thieves's Photos – Studio 2009". Retrieved 2009-07-01. Recording with Jason McCaslin ( Sum 41, Operation MD)
  5. ↑ "MySpace.com Blogs – Shelter with Thieves MySpace Blog". Retrieved 2009-07-01. As you may or may not know it was produced with Jason McCaslin from Sum 41 and Operation MD.
  6. ↑ "SWT – Music Nova Scotia Awards Nominations van Jason McCaslin op Myspace". Blogs.myspace.com. September 10, 2009. Retrieved 2011-07-17.
  7. ↑ "SWT Win Best Loud Recording! Then again their full length album "Someday Is Never Soon Enough" including the 6 songs from "Confessions of a Toxic Generation" got nominated for Best Loud Recording at the 2012 East Coast Music Awards. van Jason McCaslin op Myspace". Blogs.myspace.com. November 10, 2009. Retrieved 2011-07-17.
  8. ↑ "Us working with Jason McCaslin from Sum 41 van Credible Witness [6 NEW SONGS UP] op Myspace". Blogs.myspace.com. December 22, 2009. Retrieved 2011-07-17.
  9. ↑ "Artists Chart History". Billboard (Nielsen Company). Archived from the original on July 9, 2015. Retrieved 2008-08-17.
  10. ↑ Edwards, Gavin (December 17, 2001). "People of the Year 2001: Sum 41". Rolling Stone (Wenner Media). Retrieved 2008-08-19.
  11. ↑ "Sum 41 Past Tour Dates". Island Records. Retrieved 2008-08-17.

External links

Bass guitarist for Sum 41
since 1996
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