Jason Popson

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Jason Popson is most popularly known from his eleven years as a singer in the band Mushroomhead, he was known as his stage name J Mann while he was a member. Popson quit the band in mid-2004 due to being overworked and his father being ill. He still participates in various side-projects, including:

In Cold Blood
Integrity 2000
Crossfader
AM Factory
Rape Whistle
Lost Vegas
State of Conviction
Unified Culture
(216) featuring Steve "Skinny" Felton, Dave "Gravy" Felton, Jack "Pig Benis" Kilcoyne.
The Alter Boys featuring Craig Martini, Todd Smith, Matt Rippetoe, Mike Martini, Eric Matthews, Ryan Dunn, Jeff Siegel.
He showed his versatility and deep lyrical presence with a rap project called 10,000 Cadillacs with Steve "Skinny" Felton, additional vocals from Devon Gorman, and guest vocals from Bizzy Bone (Bone Thugs n Harmony) on Be My Guide EP.

He is also running the record company Fractured Transmitter Records which features a list of bands that includes The Alter Boys, American Werewolves, Asleep, Disengage, Integrity, Jeff Walker, Meshuggah, and State Of Conviction.

Popson's Fractured Transmitter Record Company proposes a strong mission statement considering the state of the music indurstry today. As taken from the label's website:

 "We will adhere to no dogma or credo, just talent and the will to challenge and change.
 There are no boundaries, and we definitely plan on coloring outside of the lines.
 We hope to push, pull, bend, piss off, motivate, twist and tweak the standards,
 confines and insecurities of a bloated and self-inflated industry."

[edit] Life

Popson is a philosopher and a musician, reporting to have been in the music industry for about fourteen years in an interview taken in 2005. It's been hinted lyrically and in such interviews that he was raised an only-child by a single parent — his mother — following the departure of his father from his life at a young age. However, Popson later regained touch with his father, which played a pivotal role in him leaving Mushroomhead.

Popson's father, John, died in Sept. 2006 and in memory of his father, Jason performed a concert at Peabody's Down Under in Cleveland, Ohio on Sept. 29, 2006. The concert acted as a benefit for his father's funeral, and featured Popson performing songs from many of his previous and current bands.

[edit] Filmology

Popson did a short with actor Ryan Dunn for the 2004 Philadelphia Film Festival titled Client 3815, playing the role of Franklin. It's an improvised acclaimed thriller about two men who get trapped in a client's dream while at work.

Link to Client 3815 can be seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq4VOOrAO6U