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As a Guitarist, Composer and Producer, Jason Getzel is a jack of many trades. Born in Seattle Washington in February 1976. His first love of music came when his parrents played the wall by Pink Floyd. " It was like a whole universe onto itself, I loved the idea of music grabbing you and thrusting you into another reality." His family moved to San Diego in 1986 and he quickly became enamored with guiar playing after hearing Jimi Hendrix and later Guns N Roses. Jasons first project at 14 was with the progresive metal band Tempest for 5 years, performing on the jenny jones show and opening for the band Megadeth. Film music also was a great influence as his father was a big movie buff. John Williams and Danny Elfman became a part of his listening library as much as the Police or Testament. This combined with guitar teacher Beezie Gerber convinced him to go to Berklee College of Music. There he performed with The Jay hodgsen band and met Joeseph Blaustien who he would later play with in the band ROWDY. After graduating with a degree in Film Music Composition, He moved back to San Diego and quickly had two beautiful precocious children, Kyla and Jakob. After doing music supervision on the SCI FI series The Invisible Man and the movie Tropix, Jason set his sites on Los Angeles. He worked in various stuidious recording as well as assiting in an engineering capacity. Jason then was reaquainted with Joey B. who had also moved out to LA. They both then Joined the hard rock, punk country act Rowdy, Led by Seth and Bruce Hall. The project toured half the country, saw radio play in many markets and left a path of destruction everywhere it went. Early 2007 Jason recieved a call from Sammy Allen formally of the band Seven Stitches who he had sat in with for a show and video as a bassist. She was starting a new self titled project and wanted Jason as her guitarist. They are now in the midst of recording thier first EP and it looks to be the greatest sounding and biggest project to date. More to come...