Jason is twenty three years old, and has been playing music since the age of thirteen. Growing up in Suffolk, Jason spent most of his high school years performing anywhere and everywhere he could, even having a song played on local radio ("Victory Lane"), and performing on the local CBS affiliate.
Jason's influences and favorites are various, among them are Big & Rich, Keith Urban, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Bowling for Soup, John Mayer, Garth Brooks, Chris Cagle, Matchbox Twenty, Ludacris, INXS, The Eagles, The Killers, Fall Out Boy, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pink Floyd, Green Day, Weezer, Dean Martin, Snoop Dogg, and Tommy James and the Shondells
Jason's stage setup is as follows:
Fender Highway One Stratocaster/Epiphone Faded G-400/Lotus Strat Copy/Epiphone Mandobird -> BOSS CS-3 Compression Sustainer -> BOSS OD-2 Dual Overdrive -> BOSS BD-2 Blues Driver -> BOSS DS-1 Distortion -> BOSS TR-2 Tremolo -> Behringer DD-100 Digital Delay -> Behringer SM-100 Slow Motion -> BOSS Super Phaser -> BOSS Acoustic Simulator -> BOSS DC-3 Digital Dimension -> BOSS TU-2 Chromatic Tuner -> VOX AD50VT Valvetronix Amp
Most of the time, Jason plays in a non-standard tuning. The tuning is commonly known as Alternate Open D (D,A,D,F#,A,D). More can be found on it by visiting Richie Haven's Open D tuning page.