Jason hails from Huntington Beach CA where he grew up listening to 80's pop music on legendary radio stations like KROQ and KLOS. He was in his early teens when he heard the first Motley Crue album and fell in love with the sound. Seeing that bassist Nikki Sixx wrote all the tunes, he immediately decided that he wanted to be a bass player.

A short time later his father bought him a second hand bass guitar and Jason immediately demonstrated a natural aptitude for the instrument. Preoccupied with music throughout high school, he spent a lot of time in his room working out the bottom-end to anything and everything he could get his hands on. At age 19 he joined a gigging group called Salem, but he was still a minor. He’d wait outside in the alley between sets, then sneak in the side door and back on stage while bar patrons drank and cheered on. 

He bounced around with a couple of other local acts until he wound up sitting-in with the band "dirtclodfight", who eventually signed him on as their full-time bassist. Jason played on the album Hymnal and went on 2 U.S. tours, sharing the bill with Joykiller/Jack Grisham, The Melvins, Like Hell, and many others.

After a sold out night in Portland in '96, he and Lead Vocalist Phil Merwin decided to relocate to The Rose City, where they picked up Drummer Eric Johnson and guitarist Mike Thrasher (of Thrasher Presents). 

After parting ways with dirtclodfight, Jason was approached by Atomic 61 guitarist Xian Roullier about a new project. Several incarnations eventually came to be F-priest Fantastic, who released a self-produced CD in 1999, did some local touring, and opened for noted acts like Mudhoney, Nomeansno, Queens of The Stone Age, Supersuckers, and Floater.   FPF dissolved when lead vocalist Trevor Solomon moved to New York in 2000.

Jason then decided to take some time off of music to concentrate on his family. (He is now a father of five.)

Returning to the biz in 2005 with the band Supernaut, he tore up the local clubs and released a CD called “Burning Through the Motions” on the In Music We Trust label.  A random internet posting put Jason in touch with Rodeo Rose and, in his own words, “He was blindsided by the Country Train… Never saw it comin’!”