Jason McCaslin

Cone McCaslin
Background information
Birth name	Jason Paul McCaslin
Born	September 3, 1980 (1980-09-03) (age 31) North York, Toronto, Canada
Genres	Pop punk, punk rock, garage rock, alternative rock, garage punk
Occupations	Musician, songwriter
Instruments	Bass, vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion
Years active	1994–present
Labels	Island, Aquarius
Associated acts	Sum 41, The Operation M.D., Iggy Pop, Gob, Shelter With Thieves
Notable instruments
Fender Precision Bass

Jason Paul "Cone" McCaslin (born September 3, 1980, in North York, Toronto) is a Canadian musician. He is the bass guitarist and backing vocalist of punk rock band Sum 41. 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 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 and is now recording 7 -8 more songs for their debut album slated for release in early 2012.

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.

Producing career

• The Operation M.D. - We Have an Emergency (co-produced with Todd Morse) 2007
• Shelter With Thieves - Confessions of a Toxic Generation EP (6 songs co-produced with band) 2009 - Someday Is Never Soon Enough (Full Length) (Same 6 Songs from Toxic Generation EP) Out April 19, 2011
• The Operation M.D. - Birds + Bee Stings (co-produced with Todd Morse) 2010
• The Greatest Invention (Formally "Credible Witness") - Upcoming Release (5 songs) TBA
• The Strumbellas - Upcoming Release Early 2012 (Producing Whole Album)

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 discography

With Sum 41 Half Hour of Power (2000) All Killer No Filler (2001) Does This Look Infected? (2002) Does This Look Infected Too? (2003) Chuck (2004) Go Chuck Yourself (2005) Underclass Hero (2007) All the Good Shit: 14 Solid Gold Hits 2000-2008 (2009) Screaming Bloody Murder (2011)

With The Operation M.D. We Have an Emergency (2007) Birds + Bee Stings (2010) With Iggy Pop Skull Ring (2003) - bass on "Little Know It All"

See also

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

References

1. ^ "Sum 41 official website @ IslandRecords.com - Home". June 24, 2009. http://www.islandrecords.com/site/artist_newsinfo.php?uf_item_id=3-1733484&uf_system_id=0&artist_id=259. Retrieved 2009-06-26. 
2. ^ "Sum 41 Biography Bio Pictures Brown Bizzy D Sound Stevo 32 Cone Pic". http://www.kidzworld.com/article/1130-sum-41-biography. Retrieved 2008-04-24. 
3. ^ "TheresNoSolution.com : Sum 41". http://theresnosolution.com/en/index.php?module=band_cone. Retrieved 2008-04-24. 
4. ^ "Facebook Shelter with Thieves's Photos - Studio 2009". http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shelter-with-Thieves/10675636018?v=wall&viewas=1723340651#/album.php?aid=89876&id=10675636018. Retrieved 2009-07-01. "Recording with Cone McCaslin ( Sum 41, Operation MD)" 
5. ^ "MySpace.com Blogs - Shelter with Thieves MySpace Blog". http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=15676278&blogId=491506800. Retrieved 2009-07-01. "As you may or may not know it was produced with Cone McCaslin from Sum 41 and Operation MD." 
6. ^ "SWT - Music Nova Scotia Awards Nominations van Cone McCaslin op Myspace". Blogs.myspace.com. 2009-09-10. http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=387048490&blogId=509491693. Retrieved 2011-07-17. 
7. ^ "SWT Win Best Loud Recording! van Cone McCaslin op Myspace". Blogs.myspace.com. 2009-11-10. http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=387048490&blogId=517962306. Retrieved 2011-07-17. 
8. ^ "Us working with Cone from Sum 41 van Credible Witness [6 NEW SONGS UP] op Myspace". Blogs.myspace.com. 2009-12-22. http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=44860796&blogId=523132920. Retrieved 2011-07-17. 
9. ^ "Artists Chart History". Billboard (Nielsen Company). http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Singles&model.vnuArtistId=401778&model.vnuAlbumId=476041. Retrieved 2008-08-17. ^{[dead link]}
10. ^ Edwards, Gavin (December 17, 2001). "People of the Year 2001: Sum 41". Rolling Stone (Wenner Media). http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/sum41/articles/story/5918959/people_of_the_year_2001_sum_41. Retrieved 2008-08-19. 
11. ^ "Sum 41 Past Tour Dates". Island Records. http://www7.islandrecords.com/sum41/site/tour_pastshows.las. Retrieved 2008-08-17. 

External links

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

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