13 Facts About Jay Lane

Jay Lane was born on December 5,1964 and is an American musician.

Jay Lane began learning to play the drums at age nine, taking lessons with Bob Rose, and later Steve Savage, founder of Blue Bear School of Music in San Francisco.

In 1982, Jay Lane played with Dave Shul in the band Ice Age.

USA, before Jay Lane left in 1985 to join the Freaky Executives.

Jay Lane then joined the Weir Wasserman Duo with double bass player Wasserman and Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir.

Jay Lane later reunited with Claypool and Huth as the band Sausage, named in recognition of the Primus demo they recorded together six years prior.

In 1997, Jay Lane guested on Christion's debut album, Ghetto Cyrano, playing keyboards.

Also in 2001, Jay Lane appeared once more alongside Claypool and Huth, plus others, on the Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade albums Live Frogs Set 1 and Live Frogs Set 2, the latter of which is a complete performance of Pink Floyd's Animals.

In 2002, Jay Lane guested on the Frog Brigade's studio album, Purple Onion, and was named "drummer of the year" by the California Music Awards.

In 2010, Jay Lane left both Furthur and Band of Brotherz to rejoin Primus with Claypool and long-standing guitarist Larry LaLonde, and they released the free June 2010 Rehearsal digital EP, followed in 2011 by a new album, titled Green Naugahyde.

In September 2013, it was revealed that Jay Lane had left Primus to rejoin RatDog, who were ending their hiatus.

In 2018, Jay Lane joined Weir and bassist Don Was to form Wolf Bros, a trio which undertook a North American tour in the Fall of 2018, and continued with a second tour of twenty more shows in the Spring of 2019.

Jay Lane currently endorses Ludwig drums, Sabian cymbals, and Innovative Percussion drumsticks.