About me

30 + years working in styles of Rock, Pop, Punk, Country, and Contemporary Christian. Fluent using backing tracks, click tracks, and running Ableton Live sets. Prefer to use IEM,s in all situations where monitoring is required. Have gear to play a big stage or a volume sensitive acoustic gig in the corner of a restaurant.

Can provide backing vocals and have all mics, cables, snakes, and miscellaneous adapters for the full kit and more.

I pride myself in being easy to work with and well prepared for a session or live show. I have developed my own system for charting songs and can be prepared quickly to learn your songs.

No drama, no drugs, and no excessive drinking on the job.

Although I am committed to certain projects my goal is to ultimately make music my retirement career and looking to book as many dates as possible.

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Bio

My dream was always to be the guy on the stage that I was looking up at as a teenager who was playing drums. I got off to a good start right out of high school and found myself in a cover band that was selected to open for the "I were My Sunglasses At Night" guy, Cory Hart for one night at the local University.

I thought I was going places and then life happened.

20 years later I started having opportunities to perform again and hooked up with a Youth Worship Team band that went on to have some success in the Cincinnati market in the late 90's early 2000's.

Again, I thought I was going somewhere, and life happened.

After another 10-year setback I decided it was either go all in or throw in the towel. I spent about 5 years working through all the basics again re-developing my grip and all the technique that I never learned in my younger years which at this point had led to some physical issues.

I had been playing infrequently on Sunday Mornings the whole time I was away from music as a potential career but in 2019 I was offered the opportunity to join a well-seasoned unit to perform at Kings Island during their Fall Festival season.

The experience put a fire under me to continue pursuing my goal to be a working drummer. From that point on I have been working with the intention of drumming being the last job I would ever have. I have a good job; better than a lot of people I know and love, so I am forever thankful for that but it's not where my heart is.

So here I am today working with multiple projects in hopes that one will get me to that "Take This Job and Shove It" moment in my life where I can focus on drumming as a full-time gig. Whether it's a studio session, full kit bar gig, acoustic percussion gig, teaching, or sitting in with a local band I'm up for all of it to get me where I want to go.

Thanks for taking the time to look through my page.

Experience

Super77 - 1997 to 2006

Multiple albums available on iTunes, Spotify, and various streaming services.

Musical style Pop-Punk Rock.

Appearances on Fox19 Morning Show. Opening act at Indianapolis Christian Music Festival with acts like Skillet, The Elms, Third Day

Opening act at Taste of Cincinnati for Blessed Union of Souls. Opening act for National Christian artists in the Cincinnati area including, MXPX, Kutless, Pillar, The Lawrence Arms, and many regional bands during that period.

Moped Mafia - 2006 to Present

After Super77 some of the members went on to continue playing and recording under this name. We currently record an EP each year starting in 2019 to current. You can find these records on all streaming platforms.

At present this is a studio only project and no live shows are expected any time soon.

Midnight Fire Band (off and on between) 2015-2023

Cover Band performing in the local Cincinnati market, mainly local dive bars and a few small-town festivals. Song styles included Blues, Rock, and Country.

Jordan Alan Jackson Band - Current

Jordan Alan Jackson is a solo artist that writes and records songs that are rooted in his faith in a variety of styles. You can hear an acoustic folk singer song write style to a heavy rock sound on any of his various recordings.

My position is all things percussion with this project, from shakers, tambourines, Cajan's to a full drum kit.

We have played small church festivals to the big stage at Element Eatery opening for the granddaughter of Willie Nelson.

This project is really just getting started and expect more activity in the future

Reboot Ruckus - Current

This is a cover band that is made up of the members of The Jordan Alan Jackson band. We are a 90's-2000's and beyond radio rock cover band.

The purpose of this group is to provide income for it's members and to fund projects for The Jordan Alan Jackson Band.

This project is still developing but we will have shows beginning in February 2025 and have made contacts with some local booking folks that could keep us busy this spring, summer, and fall season.

Your Band

Actively looking for fil-in dates to play with your band. Send me your set list and some dates and let me keep you working.

Gear List

Kit

Current gig kit is a Pearl Export

24" kick
6.5x14" snare
13" rack tom
14" floor tom.

Cymbals

Zildjian 14" quick beat hats
Zildjian 18" A rock crash
Zildjian 20" K thin crash
Zildjian A 22" sweet ride

Hardware

DW 5000 kick pedal
Pearl Hihat stand
Ludwig Cymbal Stands

Acoustic Percussion

Meinl Cajon
Shaker
Tambourine

Microphones

Shure Beta 56a
Shure SM57
Sennheiser e604
AKG p170
Audix D4
Shure Beta 52A

Electronics

Alesis SamplePro Drum Pad
Ableton Live 11
PreSonus StudioOne Software
Behringer PowerPlay P1 Personal Headphone Amp
Wavs Trip Driver Hybrid/Custom IEM's
Mac iPad 18.3
PreSonus Studio 24c USB Interface
Dell Windows 11 Laptop

Collaborations

Only one so far but it changed everything for me.