Jason Tait | |
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 Tait performing with the Weakerthans in Winnipeg 22 December 2007 | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Genres | Indie rock |
| Instrument(s) | Drums |
Jason Tait is a Canadian musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba. [1] He is the drummer for the Canadian indie rock band The Weakerthans. [2] [3] Tait has also been a contributing member of Broken Social Scene and The FemBots. [4] [5] [6]
Tait played drums for the Painted Thin 1995 album Small Acts of Love and Rebellion ; Stephen Carroll, guitarist for The Weakerthans, was also a member of Painted Thin. [7]
Tait moved to Toronto in about 2003, and lived there for ten years. [8] He played drums on Greg Graffin's 2006 album, Cold as the Clay . [9] and Bob Egan's album The Glorious Decline. [10]
In 2010 Tait set out on a cross-Canada tour with Toronto-based singer/songwriter Afie Jurvanen, who uses the stage name Bahamas. [11]
Tait returned to Winnipeg in 2013. [8] In 2015, he collaborated with his Weakerthans bandmate John K. Samson, Christine Fellows and Ashley Au on the music for For the Turnstiles, a dance performance by Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers troupe inspired by Neil Young's 1974 album On the Beach . [12] In 2016, Tait and Fellows coproduced Samson's solo album Winter Wheat . [13]
Currently, Tait continues to play drums for Bahamas. While on tour, he plays kits made by C&C Drums, a Gladstone, Missouri-based custom drums manufacturer whose products he endorses. [14]
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