Jason McCaslin

Cone McCaslin
Background information
Birth name	Jason Paul McCaslin
Born	(1980-09-03) September 3, 1980 North York, Ontario , Canada
Genres	Pop punk, punk rock, alternative rock, garage punk, melodic hardcore, alternative metal, grunge
Occupations	Musician, songwriter, Producer
Instruments	Bass, vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion
Years active	1994–present
Labels	Island
Associated acts	Sum 41, The Operation M.D., Iggy Pop, Gob, Shelter With Thieves, The Strumbellas
Notable instruments
Fender Precision Bass

Jason Paul "Cone" McCaslin (born September 3, 1980) is a Canadian musician. He is the bass guitarist and backing vocalist of the band Sum 41 and Music Producer. He joined the band in November 1998. Sum 41 was signed by Island Records about a year after he joined. McCaslin began playing bass at the age of 14, as a member of a grunge garage band called Second Opinion. He is of half-Irish, half-Swedish descent.^[1]

He was born in North York, Toronto.

He acquired the nickname "Cone" from fellow band member Deryck Whibley in high school, because he frequently ate ice cream cones at lunch.^[2][3]

Professional career

He co-created the Garage punk/rock side project The Operation M.D., with Todd Morse (of H2O), in which he is known under the name Dr. Dynamite. He plays bass and a bunch of other random instruments on the songs including lead vocals on a few tracks on both albums. The 1st album "We Have An Emergency" was released in Canada and Japan only in 2007. Operation M.D. then released their second album "Birds + Bee Stings" world wide 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 recently helped produce an album with Shelter With Thieves, a Canadian band from Halifax.^[4][5] The EP, entitled Confessions of a Toxic Generation, was nominated for 2 Nova Scotia Music Awards, for Group Recording and also Loud Recording.^[6] The band eventually won the Loud Recording award for the EP.^[7]

In December 2009, Cone was also producing 5 songs for a new album by Canadian piano rock band The Greatest Invention (Formally - Credible Witness).^[8] Then in 2010 he began producing 3 songs for 7 Piece Blue grass/Folk/Indie band The Strumbellas. In Sept. 2011 he was asked to produce the rest of the album. The album is now completed and called "My Father And The Hunter". It was released on February 21st 2012.

In October 2013 Cone made a cameo plaing bass in The Strumbellas music video for End of an Era.

Sum 41

In 1999, the band signed an international record deal with Island Records. The band released their debut album, All Killer No Filler 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.^[9] All Killer No Filler' was certified platinum in the United States, Canada and in the UK.^[10] The band has since released four more studio albums: Does This Look Infected? (2002), Chuck (2004) Underclass Hero (2007) and Screaming Bloody Murder (2011). The three albums before Screaming Bloody Murder have been certified platinum in Canada.

The band often performs more than 300 times each year and holds long global tours, most of which last more than a year.^[11] 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 is nominated for Grammy at the 2012 Grammy's for the song "Blood In My Eyes" in the Hard Rock/Metal category.

Producing career

• The Operation M.D. - We Have an Emergency (co-produced with Todd Morse) 2007 - Nominated for Casby 2 Awards (Best New Artist + Best Indie Release)
• Shelter With Thieves - Someday Is Never Soon Enough (Co-Produced 6 songs with band) Released April 19, 2011 - ECMA Award for "Loud" Recording of the Year
• The Operation M.D. - Birds + Bee Stings (co-produced with Todd Morse) 2010
• The Operation M.D. + Itorero - "We Stand" Song from the charity album "Rwanda Rises Up" Released June 22nd, 2010
• The Strumbellas - My Father And The Hunter - Released Feb. 21st, 2012 - Juno Award Nomination for "Best Roots/Traditional Album"
• Walter Senko - From A Liar - Released Summer 2013

Instruments

Cone uses Fender '59 Re-Issue Precision Basses live and a Fender American Vintage '62 Re-Issue Precision Bass to record with mostly.

Personal life

He married on September 5, 2008 to Shannon Boehlke. During the wedding, Cone'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. Cone has two sisters and no brothers.

Discography

See also

• Sum 41
• The Operation M.D.
• List of bass guitarists

References

External links

• official personal web site
• Sum 41 official website
• The Operation M.D. official website
• Fender Artist Cone's Fender Artist Profile