Musical artist
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]
Career
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]
See also
References
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Nathanson, Ian (2 August 2001). "Power of the word" . Jam! . Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2011 . {{cite web }}
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Proefrock, Stacia. "The Weakerthans Biography" . AllMusic . Retrieved 17 May 2010 .
^ "The Weakerthans Spellbound" . Exclaim! , By James Keast, 1 Sep 2003
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"Jason Tait Credits" . AllMusic . Retrieved 4 December 2011 .
^ Barclay, Michael (1 February 2003). "Cuff the Duke / Fembots Underground, Hamilton ON - January 11" . Exclaim! .
^ Molgat, Chuck (1 April 2003). "Fembots Small Town Murder Scene" . Exclaim! .
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"Small Acts of Love and Rebellion" . G7 Welcoming Committee Records . 29 August 2006. Archived from the original on 21 October 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2011 .
^ a b "Whose House? Jason’s House" . The Uniter ,19 January 2017. Thomas Pashko
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"Media: Greg Graffin posts another track from "Cold as the Clay" " . Punknews.org. 12 June 2006. Retrieved 5 December 2011 .
^ "Bob Egan The Glorious Decline" . Exclaim , By Kerry Doole, 16 February 2007
^ "Cutting their hockey teeth" . Queens Journal , 19 November 2010 Claire Nelischer
^ "John K. Samson Scores Neil Young-Inspired Project in Winnipeg" . Exclaim! , 29 April 2015.
^ "John K. Samson Returns with 'Winter Wheat' Solo LP, Shares New Single" . Exclaim! , 15 August 2016.
^ "C&C Drum Company Artist Profile: Jason Tait" . C&C Drums . Retrieved 2 November 2020 .
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