SVT PODCAST Episode 21 Jason Alan Moore.WAV

Simon's Valley Trip

Episode recorded at the Riffs Music School Studio with Guitar extraordinaire Jason Alan Moore. Jason is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer. Born in Southern California, raised in Thousand Oaks California. Took guitar lessons from Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake, Dio) and the world renowned, Ted Greene also known as ‘the chord chemist’ who is known for his 3 books Chord Chemistry 1-3. Ted thought Clapton, Van Halen, and many other world famous guitarists. Jason started writing songs and performing in bands at age 12, and played clubs like The Troubadour, The Whisky, and The Roxy in Hollywood while in the 10th grade. He formed a band called Seven’s Door that was signed to Capitol Records in 1998. Shortly thereafter he received a phone call from Rivers Cuomo from Weezer. Saying he was helping his buddy Kevin Ridel form a band and wanted to know if he was interested. After joining AM Radio, which was managed by Rivers, they were signed to Elektra Records and released ‘Radioactive’, which gained them national and international radio AirPlay, and their songs were placed in many feature films, television shows and video games. Madden 04 had Taken For A Ride by AM Radio, which plays every time you’re in the red zone about to score a touchdown. Some of the shows were The OC, Smallville, Wonderfalls, and the film The Girl Next Door. AM Radio toured extensively all over the US, Canada, and Japan, both as an opening act on arena tours as well as medium sized theaters and headlining club tours. Some of the bands they opened for were Weezer for three tours, Everclear, Third Eye Blind, The Vines, Rooney, Ben Kweller, Dashboard Confessional, Sparta, and many others. Later while AM Radio was on hiatus, Jason joined the alt-country rock band, Shurman on Vanguard Records, they recorded and released Jubilee and toured the US opening for Hootie and the Blowfish, Darius Rucker, Jim Lauderdale, Rodger Clyne and the peacemakers, and the then infamous and now famous Bob Schneider, who is one of America’s national treasures when it comes to songwriting and performing. They made a video for the song ‘Drowning’ which was directed by award winning Nathan Karma Cox and was seen on VH1 country, Music Choice, and all the other major video channels. Now Jason can be seen playing guitar with Midnight Satellites and Kodi Lee around Southern California and select tour dates around the US.