Career
At a young age, he was described by Max Maven as someone "with the power to raise even the most jaded eyebrows". Dean is from Kansas City, Missouri. He has recorded and toured with his current band Sidewise for the past 6 years and has also been caught playing with Tracii Guns (Los Angeles Guns, Brides of Destruction, helped form Guns & Roses).
When in town Jason can be found playing with his cover band, Under The Covers with Frank Campobasso, Doug Kenworthy, & Denny Sipes.
Jason and his band Sidewise recently returned from a very successful tour with Godsmack and Sevendust. “Foreign me this was a dream tour, to be able to play nightly and see two of my drum hero’s Morgan Rose and Shannon Larkin beat it up… insane, these are my dudes!”
Jason studied drums with the infamous GoGo Ray (Samantha Fish), Henry Okstel (Department of Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas), and Rob Leytham (Writer for Modern Drummer Magazine and Mel Bay author of multiple books) “These drummers right here have formed me along with other influences to become who I am today.
Any praise I get, I owe to these gentleman.”.