It's hard to really call Jason, "The Drummer", without further explaining his role in the band. Jason didn't start out like a typical drummer banging on pots and pans and whatnot, so everyone knew right away that he was destined for glory. He started musical studies at the tender age of 3, on that strange assembly of black and white bars that he now realizes is a piano. Years passed as young Jason followed the path of every young pianist, diddling his way across sheet music that was incomprehensibly old and dull.

Jason reached his teenage rebellion of rock and roll in grade three when he first picked up an acoustic guitar and began teaching himself to play. Chords came to him through a keen ear and by attempting to duplicate the hand positions he had observed other guitarists using.

In high school, Jason had established that he was pretty much just gonna be that music guy in high school. You know, that guy. Who only does music. Him. So he quickly established a command over the bass and nearly all brass instruments available to him in his high school band program.

Drums didn't come to him as an instrument of study until partway thru 1999, and it was an immediate connection. It was obvious to him and to those he played with that his concept of percussion and drumming extended beyond "beating on stuff in time". His musical background provided much understanding of the need for musicality, even in rock and roll drumming.

His first kit expanded quickly to meet an interest in virtuosic progressive rock, and the CD collection filled with the likes of Rush, Dream Theater, Yes, Spock's Beard and others.

After a year spent studying percussion at the University of Manitoba's School of Music, Jason decided that with little interest in teaching, and even less interest in classical studies, his path certainly didn't lead him to his idea of musical glory. And so he quit. Quitter.

He already knew that his cravings for musical satisfaction stemmed from working with Konnor, after all, they met in grade one...and so yeah. He quit.

A level of musical maturity was reached, (if you ask the band) when Konnor and Jason realized that although "chops" oriented playing is certainly impressive, there's something honest about a forgotten era of Rock, with its roots heavy-set in the blues. This newfound knowledge allowed Jason, Tom and Konnor to grow as musicians, and find a way to add sublety and nuance to an accessible style of traditional rock music. Jason's background certainly lends an interesting and unique edge to Radio Electric's music, and band will continue to raise the bar and evolve with Jason's contribution to the songwriting.

Oh yeah, and he plays the drums in the band.