Jason Tait

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]

Jason Tait
Tait performing with the Weakerthans in Winnipeg 22 December 2007
Background information
OriginWinnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
GenresIndie rock
Instrument(s)Drums

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
  1. Nathanson, Ian (2 August 2001). "Power of the word". Jam!. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  2. Proefrock, Stacia. "The Weakerthans Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 May 2010.
  3. "The Weakerthans Spellbound". Exclaim!, By James Keast, 1 Sep 2003
  4. "Jason Tait Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  5. Barclay, Michael (1 February 2003). "Cuff the Duke / Fembots Underground, Hamilton ON - January 11". Exclaim!.
  6. Molgat, Chuck (1 April 2003). "Fembots Small Town Murder Scene". Exclaim!.
  7. "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.
  8. "Whose House? Jason’s House". The Uniter,19 January 2017. Thomas Pashko
  9. "Media: Greg Graffin posts another track from "Cold as the Clay"". Punknews.org. 12 June 2006. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
  10. "Bob Egan The Glorious Decline". Exclaim, By Kerry Doole, 16 February 2007
  11. "Cutting their hockey teeth". Queens Journal, 19 November 2010 Claire Nelischer
  12. "John K. Samson Scores Neil Young-Inspired Project in Winnipeg". Exclaim!, 29 April 2015.
  13. "John K. Samson Returns with 'Winter Wheat' Solo LP, Shares New Single". Exclaim!, 15 August 2016.
  14. "C&C Drum Company Artist Profile: Jason Tait". C&C Drums. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
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