Jason O'Toole
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Jason O'Toole (Born in 1969) was the vocalist for the influential New York Hardcore band, Life's Blood. Along with Dave Stein and Sam McPheeters he was a leading organizer of the Albany, NY hardcore scene, self-publishing zines and comics and organizing all-ages hardcore shows through Combined Effort Productions. In the early 1990s, O'Toole worked with cultural anthropologist, Dr. Stanley Diamond. He was Assistant Editor of Dialectical Anthropology during which time he organized a reading by Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe, the first given since Achebe's near fatal car accident.
A devout Catholic, O'Toole and his family are active in Knights of Columbus of which he is a Fourth Degree member.
He is an editor with Garrison Publishing which produces Lamont Weston Harvey's series of true, historical graphic novels Invisible Soldiers, about African-American, Jewish and other disenfranchised soldiers in WWII.
He is a third generation law enforcement officer, the grandson of Special Agent John "Jack" O'Toole, who ran the New York Bureau of the F.B.I.'s Counter-Intelligence desk during World War II and the Cold War.[citation needed]
He is the brother of Adam O'Toole who played bass with Jason in Factory (with Limp Wrist guitarist Mark Telfian), and Intent, the thrash core fore-runner to Das Oath, as well as the Brown Cuts Neighbors.
