1. Jason Mark Everman was born on October 16,1967 and is an American musician and soldier who played guitar with Nirvana and Mind Funk, and bass in Soundgarden and OLD.
17 Facts About Jason Everman
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Jason Everman later served tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan with the US Army as an Army Ranger and Green Beret.
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Jason Everman's mother left with Jason when he was a toddler, moved to Washington, and married a former Navy serviceman; the family eventually settled in Poulsbo, across Puget Sound from Seattle.
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Jason Everman began playing guitar during the therapy sessions; he initially picked up one of the guitars the therapist kept around his office, and the therapist then decided to play with him, hoping it would help him open up.
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Jason Everman went on to play in several bands during his high school years.
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Jason Everman joined Nirvana in February 1989 as a second guitarist.
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Jason Everman is listed as being second guitarist on Nirvana's Bleach and appears on the cover, but did not actually play on any of the tracks.
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Nirvana founder Kurt Cobain said the credit was a token of thanks to Jason Everman for paying a fee of $606.17 to record the album.
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Jason Everman toured with Nirvana the summer of 1989 in support of Bleach.
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Jason Everman can be heard playing guitar on Trust No-One, an unofficial release of a live performance in Boston.
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Jason Everman can be seen in the bootleg video of Nirvana playing an "in store" performance at Rhino Records in Los Angeles on June 23,1989.
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Jason Everman next joined Soundgarden in Fall of 1989 as Hiro Yamamoto's temporary successor on bass.
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Jason Everman left immediately after Soundgarden completed its promotional tour for Louder Than Love in mid-1990 to play bass for the band OLD, at which time Soundgarden found Yamamoto's ultimate successor, bassist Ben Shepherd.
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Jason Everman then traveled to Tibet and worked and studied in a Buddhist monastery before returning to the US Jason Everman reentered the Army when offered the chance to join Special Forces.
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In September 2010, Jason Everman conducted an interview with Music Life Radio detailing his life.
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In July 2013, The New York Times published a portrait on Jason Everman, written by guitarist and writer Clay Tarver.
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Jason Everman earned a Master's in Military History from Norwich University in 2017.