Jason Popson (born November 1, 1971 [1] in Cleveland, Ohio) is most popularly known from his eleven years as a singer in the band Mushroomhead, he was known as his stage name J Mann while he was a member. He is an ex-marine as of now and spent his times in service for a short while. Popson quit the band in mid-2004 due to being overworked and his father being ill. He still participates in various side-projects, including: Pitch Black Forecast In Cold Blood Integrity 2000 Crossfader AM Factory Rape Whistle Lost Vegas State of Conviction Unified Culture (216) The Alter Boys 10,000 Cadillacs Bitch Wrangler

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Life

Popson is a philosopher and a musician, reporting to have been in the music industry for about fourteen years in an interview taken in 2005. It's been hinted lyrically and in such interviews that he was raised an only-child by a single parent — his mother — following the departure of his father from his life at a young age. However, Popson later regained touch with his father, which played a pivotal role in him leaving Mushroomhead. He also does old school shows with mushroomhead around the fourth of July time of year. He stated in an interview that he had started his own record label.

Popson's father, John, died in Sept. 2006 and in memory of his father, Jason performed a concert at Peabody's Down Under in Cleveland, Ohio on Sept. 29, 2006. The concert acted as a benefit for his father's funeral, and featured Popson performing songs from many of his previous and current bands.

Popson is now in a metal band with former Strapping Young Lad/Death drummer Gene Hoglan called Pitch Black Forecast which also features Robert Reinard on guitar, and Craig Martini on bass. The band most recently added guitarist Tom Shafner to its lineup. Pitch Black Forecast was formerly known as Absentee and the group's first release was on Popson's Fractured Transmitter released Melvins tribute album — released through Fractured Transmitter — titled "We Reach: The Melvins" when the band performed a cover of the song "Revolve." Popson will release a second PBF album in 2009 and will be on at least one song on Mushroomhead's upcoming album in 2010.

Discography

Mushroomhead

• Mushroomhead (1995)
• Superbuick (1996)
• Multimedia Remix (1996)
• Remix 2000 (2002)
• M3 (1999)
• XX (2001)
• XIII (2003)

10,000 Cadillacs

• Reap The Whirlwind (1999)
• Be My Guide (EP),(2000)

(216)

• (216)/Schnauzer (1997)
• Two One Six (1998)
• Theme Song (2000)

AM Factory

(only one song has been released)

• "Deuce Balloon"

Lost Vegas

(only two songs have been released)

• "All Bets Down"
• "It's Not Unusual" (Tom Jones Cover)

Rape Whistle

(only three songs have been released)

• "Playmate of the Year"
• "SKS"
• "Crowd Extermination"

Crossfader

(only one song has been released)

• "Death is certain...Life is not"

Bitch Wrangler

(these three songs have been posted on their myspace)

• "Ballad of Glenn Schwartz"
• "Masochist"
• "Sycamore"

In Cold Blood

• Hell on Earth (1998)

State of Conviction

• Thoughts Light Fires (1996)
• A Call to Arms (1997)

Unified Culture

• Funkcore (1994)
• To Know What's Up...You Have To Be Down (1995)

Pitch Black Forecast

• "Absentee" (2008)
• "TBA" (2009)

Integrity 2000

• "Integrity 2000"

The Alter Boys

• "The Exotic Sounds of the Alter Boys"

Filmography

Popson acted in a short film called Client 3815 with Ryan Dunn for the 2004 Philadelphia Film Festival. The film is an improvised acclaimed thriller. Popson plays the role of Franklin, an employee at 'Dream Control' who gets trapped in a clients dream along with a co-worker.

References

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