Jon Siren

About me:

I play drums, write music, and play in a few different bands. My main focus is on "Mankind Is Obsolete" www.myspace.com/mankindisobsolete I also drum for Psyclon Nine, kidneythieves, Dismantled, Christopher Anton "Information Society," Hate Dept, 101 "A Depeche Mode cover band" and Pseudocipher. I have also filled in drums for The Hollywood 77's which features original Misfits drummer Joey Image. I used to drive a van that a lot of people are afraid of including my band because we tour in it and I only paid $700. It is a rickety piece of crap that idles kinda funny and the kicker is that looks like a child molester van but it doesn't have that moon window on the side that is a dead give-a-way. I might post a pic sometime. Someone bought it last year because it was the same model the A Team used and this guy was a fanatic. He flew out from Austin, TX the day I posted an ad in Craig's List and bought it for $1300, so I actually made money from having the van. I have had many fond moments with that van though. I remember the sour looks we'd get as we'd roll up to a venue in that ride. It was pretty funny and scary at the same time when we couldn't turn left in the van. The owner before must have been on meth while working on the van in the front yard one day because he welded some sort of metal fixture near the driver side wheel which caused the van to be unable to turn left more than at a 10 degree angle. We still drove on it though and had to make three rights in order to make a left. In addition to that, the turn signal only worked if we had a screw driver or a large enough coin to make it happen. My last fond memory is us running out of gas on the Grape Vine going to Merced, CA. The van could only do 10 mph up mountains and would shake quite a bit as if it we're going to die any minute. I definitely had to reconsider any faith in a higher power I may have once had when we made it to the top. I'll definitely miss that van. I now am the proud owner of one of those sweet tour vans you see "big deal" bands touring around in. Rock on!