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Jared *J-Rodd* Forqueran

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About Me

I am a DRUMMER/PERCUSSIONIST from San Diego, CA transplanted to BEND, OR, and I have been playing for the last 19 YEARS. I like to think of myself as a musician who happens to play drums, and I feel my true talent lies in taking a good song, adding my percussive input and making it a GREAT song. Whether it's rock, reggae, ghetto grass, jazz, metal, country, pop, musical theater, or WHATEVER other type of contemporary music it may be, I can play it, LIVE or in the STUDIO. I am currently playing with PERSON PEOPLE, THE DAVID BOWERS COLONY, ANASTACIA, and most recently WARM GADGET and ELECTRIC SUDAKI, along with a few other random groupings in and around Central Oregon. I also make myself available to give lessons and to quality bands or musicians that want to hire me for GIGGING or RECORDING, check out my playlist to hear a few tracks from my latest projects. For the time, I am wholeheartedly pursuing a career in music, wish me luck...

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."-HUNTER S. THOMPSON

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Check out this ANASTACIA video for "Grains of Sand", we won a contest to have it shot for free!
Anastacia "Grains of Sand" directed by Tim Cash from FARfromEARTH Films on Vimeo . Check out MUSE live at Wimbley Stadium doing "Knights of Sedonia": Watch this, it's a cool explanation of the complex TOOL song 46&2 with lyrics....

My Blog

"Get to know Person People"-GO! Magazine article 2/27/09

About two minutes into the first track on Person Peoples new album, an anthemic, call-and-response chorus unfolds:You cant spell heart without art, says one group of guys, before another responds ...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:47:00 GMT

"Crossing Over: How Person People became Bends most exciting live act"-The Source 10/29/08

Gathered around a table tucked in the back of a downtown coffee shop, four members of Person People (less than half of the hip-hop collective's total enrollment) are contemplating what it means to be ...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:07:00 GMT

"Rapped Gifts"-Person People article, "GO" magazine-12.28.07

Ups and downs. Every band has 'em. Six months ago, Person People  the Bend-based 10-piece hip-hop group that will perform Saturday at The Annex was a bit down. Then numbering seven members, some of ...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:56:00 GMT

THREES-"Everywhere" Album Review-The Source Weekly-3.7.07

Three is a magic number. Third time's the charm. One, two, three strikes, you're out. Triangles and tricycles&every place you look.Threes even shares a kitchen with the Source Weekly  Joe Leonardi, l...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:26:00 GMT

"Sound Check: Birthday Songs  David Miller, J-Rodd, and many more"-The Source 1/17/07

"Downtown at The Grove, the inescapable J-Rodd (we swear, he plays drums for 98% of Bend's bands) skipped the minimalist approach and commemorated his birth with a veritable bum-load of his fellow loc...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:31:00 GMT

The night I danced so much I couldn't walk the next day...

....that was last night, New Year's Eve. Imagine if you will, not being able to move your hips in any natural direction, having no cartlidge behind your knee caps, and simultaneously having your Achil...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:58:00 GMT

JESUS CHRIST!!

Yesterday morning I hopped on myspace and found a bulletin that one of my christian friends had posted. It was basically a long list that people had added their names to professing that they were prou...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:45:00 GMT