Jason Loftin

Instruments: Bass / Vocals

Birthdate: January 29, 1981

Musical Influences: Radiohead, Neil Young, Beck, Neutral Milk Hotel, James Brown.

Currently Listening to: Murder by Death, The Flaming Lips, The Beatles, Can, The Decemberists.

Particularly Likes: Music, old records, moonlight, laughter, er... and other positive stuff. Fill in the blanks.

Particularly Dislikes: Idiot conservative blowhards, groupthink, current radio, Creed, onions.

Key Words: Shy, creative, smartassed, neurotic.

A few friendly words from our resident bass player:

I spent my first five years living in a trailer outside of Lampe, Missouri, escaping just in time to avoid becoming a Toby Keith-swilling, jackalope-stuffing redneck. I actually lived most of the remainder of my formative years in the comparable nearby metropolis of Reeds Spring (population 465), where I eventually learned to extract mostly musical sounds from stringed instruments by randomly wiggling my fingers across them. This skill proved useful, as I was soon able to start playing in a succession of cock rock bands with embarrassing names. All of whom wanted to play Sweet Home Alabama.

I finally landed in Seagreens in early 2003, and was able to start pursuing my growing interest in messing up perfectly fine songs with annoying screeching noises and wrong notes. And yet I'm still single? I mean, what the hell, people?!?!?!?

In the meantime, I have also recently been filling in as a temporary bassist for Mr. Punch, everybody's favorite local operators of homemade theremins, humbly saying "yes sir" and "no sir" whenever Joe speaks to me. In addition, I'm playing lead guitar in Bender, a classic rock cover band that gives me the opportunity to turn up really loud and go "WHAAAAAAAA" and "Doodeely doodeely DOOO" like I was the illegitimate three-way love child of Randy Bachman and Bernie Kopell and Jim Bultas or something.

I'm sorry. Sometimes even I have no idea what the hell I'm talking about.