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Bio:
Jason Van Meter began playing guitar professionally in 1986 with a local blues band called DC & the Continentals. Since that time, he has performed with a variety of musicians under many different monikers but he's most known and associated with his band Electric Evergreen, which he co-founded in 1991. Some of the groups that he has worked with include: Phantazmal Minds, Mystic Sizzle, The Flaming Resin Balls, Acoustic Evergreen, The Nines, The Black River Bluegrass Band, Queen Bee & Skeeter, Mammal Toe, The Van Meter Trio, Mystery Machine, The Jerks, and Evergreen. Based on Yeti and the Big Feat, Van Meter was invited to perform two sets of original music at the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame in May of 2000.In November of 2005, Van Meter and friends performed at the House of Blues for a CD release party for Metanoia.

Van Meter has written a growing catalog of over 100 original compositions that are available on CD within the following list of releases, which follow:

  • Party Planet - 1994 with Clarke, Alexander, McClean
  • Earth Signs - 1995 with Clarke, Alexander, McClean
  • Back To Bonobo - 1995 with Doug Johns, Chris Ceja
  • Seeds- (vol. 1) - 1996 with, Clarke, Hicks, Fleck, Alexander
  • Beat Town- 1999 with Jablo, Costello, Alexander, Clarke, Big Daddy, & Hump
  • Jason VanMeter - Yeti & the Big Feat Yeti & the Big Feat - Original Film Soundtrack - 2000 with Alexander, Hicks, the Clarke's, Redman, Chris Hanna, Keith Hanna, Fred Perez-Stable, Curtis Leonard, BJ Hoertz
  • Funktionslust - 2000 with Curtis Leonard, Paul Lewis, Steve Masek, Tracy Marie, Kristine Jackson, Jen Kesterke
  • Chasin' the Monkey - 2001 Compilation
  • Jason VanMeter - Antidote Antidote- 2002 with Alexander, Hicks, Fleck, Kesterke, Kurowski, Leonard, Ed Kearney, Hanna, Chuck Hammel
  • Uncharted Sea- 2003 with Hicks, Tim Krugman
  • Jason VanMeter - Metanoia Metanoia- 2005 with Hanna, Hammel, Lewis, Leonard, Clarke, Kesterke
  • VanMeter, Clarke & Hicks - One Phantazmal Evening One Phantazmal Evening - 2006 with Clarke & Hicks guests: Hanna, Leonard
  • 11 - 2007 An eleven-year retrospective 1996-2007 including all the best and everyone!
In 1998, Van Meter received an Associate of Arts degree from Lorain County Community College. In 2000, Jason earned a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies with a minor in Psychology and in 2007, he graduated with a Master's of Education degree from Cleveland State University.