Jason McCaslin

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Jason McCaslin
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McCaslin performing at Rock im Park in 2023
Background information
Also known as
  • Cone
  • Sniper
  • Dr. Dynamite
Born (1980-09-03) 3 September 1980 (age 44)
North York, Ontario, Canada [1]
Genres
Occupations
  • Musician
  • songwriter
  • producer
  • singer
Instruments
  • Bass
  • vocals
Years active1998–present
Labels Island
Member of

Jason "Cone" McCaslin (born 3 September 1980) [1] is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, serving as the bassist and backing vocalist of the band Sum 41. He and frontman Deryck Whibley are the only two members of the band to appear on every studio album.

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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 Irish/Swedish descent. [2]

McCaslin attended Exeter High School in Ajax, Ontario along with fellow Sum 41 band members Deryck Whibley, Dave Baksh, and their former drummer Steve Jocz.

He acquired the nickname "Cone" from fellow band member Deryck Whibley in high school, because he frequently ate ice cream cones at lunch. [3] [4]

Professional career

He co-created the garage punk/garage rock side project The Operation M.D., with Todd Morse (of H2O), in which he goes by the name Dr. Dynamite. He plays bass guitar and other instruments on the songs including lead vocals on a few tracks on both albums. The first album, We Have an Emergency was released in Canada and Japan exclusively in 2007. Operation M.D. then released their second album Birds + Bee Stings worldwide 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 helped produce an album with Shelter With Thieves, a Canadian band from Halifax, Nova Scotia. [5] [6] The EP, entitled Confessions of a Toxic Generation, was nominated for two Nova Scotia Music Awards, for Group Recording and Loud Recording. [7] The band won the Loud Recording award for the EP. [8]

In December 2009, McCaslin was also producing five songs for a new album by Canadian piano rock band The Greatest Invention (Formally – Credible Witness), which eventually got released under Walter Senko. [9]

Then, in 2010, he began producing three songs for the seven-piece bluegrass/folk/indie band The Strumbellas. In September 2011, he was asked to produce the rest of the album 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" (two songs) which was released and also produced their EP and LP over the following year. In 2014, McCaslin began producing two songs for the band LeBarons which were released in 2015. He started hosting his own radio show titled Cone's Cave on CKGE-FM. The first episode aired on February 12, 2022.

Sum 41

In 1999, the band signed an international record deal with Island Records. The band released their debut EP, Half Hour of Power , in 2000. Their first album, All Killer No Filler , was released 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. [10] All Killer No Filler was certified platinum in the United States, Canada and in the UK. [11] The band has since released seven more studio albums: Does This Look Infected? (2002), Chuck (2004) Underclass Hero (2007), Screaming Bloody Murder (2011), 13 Voices (2016), Order in Decline (2019), and Heaven :x: Hell (2024). Sum 41's first four studio albums are certified Platinum in Canada.

The band often performed more than 300 times each year and held long global tours, most of which lasted more than a year. [12] 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 was nominated for a Grammy at the 2012 Grammys for the song "Blood in My Eyes" in the Hard Rock/Metal category.

Producing/mixing discography

P = Producing, M = Mixing

Instruments

McCaslin uses Fender '59 Re-Issue Precision Basses live and a Fender American Vintage '62 Re-Issue Precision Bass to record with. His personal favorite is an Olympic white Fender Precision Bass, since he was a fan of Dee Dee Ramone.

Personal life

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

McCaslin has two sisters.[ citation needed ] On December 22, 2014, his first son Max Grey McCaslin was born. [13]

On October 9, 2018, he and his wife Shannon had a daughter, Ayla Rose McCaslin.

Discography

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 Gormley, Ian (July 12, 2019). "Sum 41 Survive Teen Stardom, Substance Abuse and Changing Tastes to Rise Again on 'Out for Blood'". Exclaim! . Retrieved July 13, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Sum 41 official website @ IslandRecords.com – Home". June 24, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2009.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. ↑ "Sum 41 Biography Bio Pictures Brown Bizzy D Sound Stevo 32 Cone Pic". Archived from the original on June 25, 2010. Retrieved April 24, 2008.
  4. ↑ "TheresNoSolution.com : Sum 41" . Retrieved April 24, 2008.
  5. ↑ "Facebook Shelter with Thieves's Photos – Studio 2009". Facebook . Retrieved July 1, 2009. Recording with Jason McCaslin ( Sum 41, Operation MD)
  6. ↑ "MySpace.com Blogs – Shelter with Thieves MySpace Blog". Archived from the original on July 9, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2009. As you may or may not know it was produced with Jason McCaslin from Sum 41 and Operation MD.
  7. ↑ "SWT – Music Nova Scotia Awards Nominations van Jason McCaslin op Myspace". Blogs.myspace.com. September 10, 2009. Archived from the original on July 9, 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  8. ↑ "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. Archived from the original on July 1, 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  9. ↑ "Us working with Jason McCaslin from Sum 41 van Credible Witness [6 NEW SONGS UP] op Myspace". Blogs.myspace.com. December 22, 2009. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  10. ↑ "Artists Chart History". Billboard . Nielsen Company. Archived from the original on July 9, 2015. Retrieved August 17, 2008.
  11. ↑ Edwards, Gavin (December 17, 2001). "People of the Year 2001: Sum 41". Rolling Stone . Wenner Media. Archived from the original on February 11, 2009. Retrieved August 19, 2008.
  12. ↑ "Sum 41 Past Tour Dates". Island Records. Archived from the original on February 9, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2008.
  13. ↑ McCaslin, Jason [@Cone41] (December 27, 2014). "This is the greatest message I'll ever write. I'm a dad! Introducing my little boy Max Grey McCaslin born Dec. 22/14" (Tweet). Retrieved September 7, 2017– via Twitter.
Bass guitarist for Sum 41
since 1999
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