Jason C. Slater (March 8, 1971 – December 9, 2020) was an American

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songwriter A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music gen ...

and

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. He is best known for being the founding bassist and backup vocalist for the American rock band

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from 1993 to 1994. Following his departure from Third Eye Blind, Slater co-founded the

rap rock Rap rock is a fusion genre that fuses vocal and instrumental elements of hip hop with various forms of rock. Rap rock's most popular subgenres include rap metal and rapcore, which include heavy metal and hardcore punk-oriented influences, resp ...

band

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with Luke Oakson and the

industrial rock Industrial rock is a fusion genre that fuses industrial music and rock music. It initially originated in the 1970s, and drew influence from early experimental and industrial acts such as Cromagnon, Throbbing Gristle, Einstürzende Neubauten a ...

band

Snake River Conspiracy Snake River Conspiracy (SRC) is an American industrial rock band. It was formed in 1996 in the San Francisco Bay Area by Eric Valentine and Jason Slater. The band's vocalist, Tobey Torres, was recruited in 1998. After signing with Reprise Recor ...

with

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. He was also a member of two supergroups; "Band of Flakes" (with George Lynch), and Revenge of the Triads (with

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and

Troy Van Leeuwen Troy Van Leeuwen (born January 5, 1970) is an American musician and record producer. He is best known as a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist in the rock band Queens of the Stone Age, with whom he has recorded four studio albums. Joining the ba ...

), Outside of his work with bands, Slater produced several albums, most notably with the

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band

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, with who he produced five albums for between 2006 and 2013.

Biography

Slater grew up in

Palo Alto Palo Alto (; Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto. The city was estab ...

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, where he helped form the bands Third Eye Blind, Brougham and Snake River Conspiracy. In 1993, Slater founded the American rock band

, and was the band's bassist and backup vocalist. However, he left the band after its first year after recording their first demo. On December 9, 2020, Slater died from liver failure at a

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hospital. He was 49 years old.

Discography

Unreleased albums

References

External links

* 1971 births 2020 deaths Record producers from California Place of birth missing Musicians from Palo Alto, California 20th-century American bass guitarists 21st-century American bass guitarists American male bass guitarists 20th-century American male musicians 21st-century American male musicians Deaths from liver failure {{Snake River Conspiracy