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We’re stoked to announce the first round of our Summer 2013 Tour dates. This tour will take us from Pittsburgh to Portland as well as a bunch of great festivals, concert series, & club dates in between. Cant wait to see our Festival Friends at Bella Mente Festival, Summer Camp, Hookahville, Wakarusa, & 80/35 Fest. Keep on the look out for more festi & club dates to be added this summer!

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Songs in this video:  PC’s Dub, Ever Get Down, Head Under Water

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ATTENTION: To All of our “FESTIVAL FRIENDS”

JWP is hitting the road this week and will be in Colorado for 2 weeks finishing our
new album set to drop in the middle of Septemeber…….

We couldn’t just take off without giving a little glimpse of what’s to come……

Just in time for “Festi Season” we are releasing 2 live tracks recorded during our ’13
winter tour.

“Festival Friends” and “Nooses” are here for you listening pleasure and for FREE!!!!!

Written by Ben Suchy and arranged by JWP.

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NEW JWP ALBUM COMING SOON!

Stoked to be wrapping up our biggest & best winter tour ever. We had great crowds at nearly every show all the way from Seattle to Pittsburgh. Highlights included a big show at Belly Up in Aspen CO with John Browns Body, our 7 day run of shows out east with Zach Deputy, and our first sold out show in the Colorado Springs area. It looks like all this hard work has really started to pay off!

This month we’ve got big stuff happening, Including…..

March 1st & 2nd

March 7th, 8th, & 9th

March 14 & 15th

March 21st, 22nd, & 23rd

March 30th

Also we’ve blocked out two weeks this spring to record our NEW ALBUM. Keep on the lookout for a Fall 2013 release!

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How epic can it get?  Sure to be a highlight of our Winter Tour will be joining Zach Deputy for a portion of his upcoming tour.  If you haven’t seen him perform yet, prepare to have your mind blown.  Zach is a good friend of ours and a talented musician, songwriter, and impressive entertainer.  With a little help from his synth guitar—capable of making the sound of virtually any instrument under the sun—a ridiculous multi-mic set up that rivals most back up vocals, unprecedented live looping skills and an impressive singing voice, Deputy single-handedly creates a sound that, if you didn’t know any better, you would think was delivered by an eight-piece band.  This is one of those events that’s definitely worth a road trip!

Feb 15th – Fargo ND House of Rock

Feb 16th – Minneapolis MN Cabooze

Feb 19th – Cincinnati OH MVP Sports Grill

Feb 20th – Charleston WV The Sound Factory

Feb 21st – Morgantown WV 123 Pleasant

Feb 22nd – Pittsburgh PA Rex Theatre

Feb 23rd – Akron OH Musica

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New Press!  ThePier.org shines a light on Jon Wayne and The Pain in a new article by Kris Siuta.  

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

A lot of bands consider their traveling patterns to be relentless touring outfits, but one band that has consistently called the open road home for the last three years is Jon Wayne and The Pain. Tireless touring veterans is not an easy label to hold, but JWP has lived up to the billing each year. Sprouting from Minneapolis, Minnesota, often times Midwest reggae-rock bands get overlooked for the sunshine and crashing waves of coastal living that accompanies reggae music. However, Jon Wayne and The Pain perform a completely different style of music than the average reggae-rock band from Southern California or east coast beach towns. JWP describes their music as Reggae-Tronic Dub, and that is the ideal description of their recorded and live sound. Jon Wayne and The Pain have been carving a sizable niche in the reggae-rock genre, and their fan base continues to grow with each subsequent tour. The JWP trio which consists of Jon Wayne (lead singer/guitarist), Teeto Miller (drums) and Chuck E. Torgey (bass/dub controls) are legitimate coast-to-coast road warriors having played an average of 20 shows per month for the last 3 years. Their live shows are a powerful display of the trio’s “Reggae-Tronic Dub”. The band creates a unique psychedelic Reggae sound by blending Reggae-Rock, Roots, Pop, and Ska with evolving bass heavy tangents of electronic dub. Most recently, their sophomore release Follow Through was recorded at 17th Street Recording Studio under the watchful eye of producer/engineer extraordinaire, Lewis Richards. Jon Wayne and The Pain are still touring in support of their most recent release, and once again, the trio will hit the road for 25-dates over the next two months. Starting out in their home state of Minnesota. By the tours conclusion in late February, JWP will have performed multiple shows in ten different states, focusing on the mountain west and west coast regions, specifically. If you are looking for a spiritual, live, musical experience full of emotional and prosperous lyrics, Jon Wayne and The Pain will fill your cup to the brim. By the time the night has come to an end, you will be asking and begging for more.

Kris Siuta

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FREE DOWNLOAD Jon Wayne and The Pain The 99%  Download Free Now  or name your price Released 01 May 2012 Digital Track Immediate download of The 99% in your choice of MP3 320, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.

discography Follow Through Apr 2012 Jon Wayne and The Pain May 2008 Live From Moscow Jul 2011 Candyman Apr 2010

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Reminiscent of the heart-felt Reggae Rock love songs first written and recorded by Jon Wayne and The Pain, “Pipe Dreams” is a bitter-sweet tale of a love lost but not forgotten.  Footage in this video was filmed by the band while on tour giving a glimpse of the Reggae-Rock trio’s adventures through the Midwest, Rockies, and West Coast.

Produced by Savannah Bloch

Photographed by Savannah Bloch and Jon Wayne

Jon Wayne and The Pain debuts new Reggae Rock song and music video “Pipe Dreams”

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“PIPE DREAMS” LYRICS

Things get cold on the open road, winter time is here up north, and the twinkle in your eye has gone away.
I got this feeling now up inside here I wish would go away. I got this feelin things between me and you changed.
If what I’ve felt and what I’ve seen means anything on you and me it means I lost myself inside some movie scene.
Broke down trust and walls I walk so tall, but deep inside I see, that I’m a broken man and you’re no good for me.

Baby you took my heart away.
You laid it 6 feet under the clay.
I thought your love would always stay.
I guess Ill find another way.

I could repeat some words that sound so neat, but they don’t mean no thing to you, when you’re know longer lying next to me.
This empty bed, this dusty TV screen, this hole inside my jeans, the memories of back when we were hooked on dreams.
And everything I failed to do for you, those things I do I should not do, But 7 years with you is something real I really need.
Broke down walls inside of bathroom stalls, and holes in shoes on feet, can’t be discreet when all i wish is you ere lying next to me.

Baby you took my heart away.
You laid it 6 feet under the clay.
I thought your love would always stay.
I guess Ill find another way.

He don’t look at you the way I do
And looking back on this, and everything that we’ve been through.
He wont love on you the way I do
If you believe in me, I believe that we could make it through.

Things get cold on the open road, winter time is here up north, and the twinkle in your eye has gone away.

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Join us on little road trip this September across a neat part of the world known as the Midwest.  Maybe you’ve heard of it?  Maybe you’ve also heard of these great bands that will be joining us for some parties – Wookiefoot? Roster McCabe? Mikel Wright and The Wrongs? Maybe even Peewee Dread? Eh? We certainly hope so!  If not, you are in for quite a mind blowing experience because the bands joining us on this tour are some of the greatest the scene has to offer!

August 31st

Red Carpet – St. Cloud, MN

Also Performing:  Mikel Wright and The Wrongs

September 1st

Rex Bar – Duluth, MN

Also Performing:  Mikel Wright and The Wrongs

September 7th

Harmony Park Music Garden – Geneva, MN

Shangri La Festival

September 12th

Original Bar – Minot, ND

Also Performing:  Mikel Wright and The Wrongs

September 13th

Captain Freddy’s – Mandan, ND

Also Performing:  Mikel Wright and The Wrongs

September 14th

El Roco Night Club – Grand Forks, ND

Also Performing:  Mikel Wright and The Wrongs

September 15th

The Garage – Moorhead, MN

Also Performing:  Mikel Wright and The Wrongs, Peewee Dread 

September 21st

Cabooze – Minneapolis

Also Performing:  Useful Jenkns, plus TBA mystery guest from across the ocean 

September 22nd – TWO SHOWS

Maximum Ames Festival – Ames, IA (Early Show)

Tribal Equinox Festival – Omaha, NE

September 27th

9 Bar – Brookings, SD

September 28th

Rookies Sports and Music Theater – Sioux Falls, SD

Also Performing:  Roster McCabe

September 29

The Blue Ox – Bemidji, MN

Also Performing: Wookiefoot

COME GET SOME REGGAE-TRONIC DUB!!

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Photographed by Savannah Bloch and Jane Hollon
Edited by Cristian Martinez

Additional Photography by Theo Christofore and Chris Ruona

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If you’ve ever wondered what would’ve happened to Sublime had lead singer Bradley Nowell survived his deadly dance with heroin, I have the answer. It’s in Minneapolis-based reggae rock/ska/dub trio Jon Wayne and the Pain.

Recovering addict Jon Wayne leads the group, and the back story of this Midwesterner’s struggle with addiction reveals commonality with Nowell as well as a peek inside the band’s moniker. Hint: It has less to do with clown-faced serial killers or grizzled cowboys and more to do with a former drug addict and the pain experienced while trying to claw his way to redemption.

Luckily, redemption has shone its light on Wayne, drummer Tito Miller and bassist Chuck Torgerson. Their message is a positive one, breaking free of the drug-focused stereotypes often associated with reggae music.

Formed by Wayne and former drummer Chris Hicks in 2005, the group recorded and released its eponymous debut album in 2008, after the addition of Torgerson. For them, the responsibility of spreading positive vibes through music is paramount, and the trio often squeezes in 20 shows per month in Minnesota and beyond.

Last year saw the release of the band’s second full-length, Follow Through, a 12-track effort that includes guest spots from reggae/ska peers Slightly Stoopid, Christofer “C Money” Welter, Daniel “DELA” Cruz, Oguer “OG” Ocon and Yoni.

The album opens with “Vibe,” a tune set amidst the sound of gentle waves; I braced myself for the voice of Jack Johnson, but was instead pleasantly serenaded by the earnest voice of Wayne telling me he would “rather bleed and die than be superficialized.”

As a whole, Jon Wayne and the Pain aren’t just a trip in the way-back machine. Ska-influenced horns mix with a few moments of electronic dub-style beats and offbeat tempos slammed next to quirky bass lines. This sound is made for anyone looking to find redemption, or maybe just a good time.

John Wayne and the Pain play 9 pm Sunday, June 17, at WOW Hall; $7.

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NEW MUSIC FROM JWP

Its been quite a while since Jon Wayne and The Pain released a new studio recording.  We’ve got a brand new song for you. This one is called “The 99%”, and its Free!

Mobile Browsing? Use ‘Download’ link below: 

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Third Eye Productions – Video, Photography, Live Sound.

Camera Ops – Chris Ruona, Marcos Juarez, Theo Christofore
Recorded and Mixed by Theo Christofore
Edited By Theo Christofore

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Jon Wayne and The Pain 2012 Summer Tour

Hey JWP Fam! We’re touring 15 states this summer all the way from Seattle Washington to Huntsville Alabama including numerous outdoor festivals and block parties. Get ready to experience the ReggaeTronic Lazer Dub Show!! Please RSVP on Facebook and let your friends know where the party is at! Tour dates listed below:

5/31 Mankato Minnesota Midtown Tavern 21+ $5
6/1 Sioux Falls South Dakota Downtown Sioux Falls Block Party All Ages $5
6/2 Duluth Minnesota Fitger’s Rex Bar 21+ $5
6/3 Fargo North Dakota The Aquarium 21+ $10
6/4 Minot North Dakota Original Bar 21+ $5
6/5 Mandan North Dakota – Captain Freddy’s – 21+ $5
6/7 Jackson Wyoming – Town Square Tavern – 21+ $5
6/8 Bozeman Montana – The Zebra Cocktail Lounge – 21+ $5
6/9 Whitefish Montana – The Great Northern Bar – 21+ $5
6/12 Moscow Idaho – Johns Alley – 21+ $5
6/13 Tacoma Washington – Jazzbones – 21+ $5
6/14 Seattle Washington – Nectar Lounge – 21+ $6
6/15 Bellingham Washington – Wild Buffalo House of Music – 21+ $5
6/16 Portland Oregon – Mt Tabor Theatre – 21+ $8
6/17 Eugene Oregon – WOW Hall – 18+ $7
6/20 South Lake Tahoe California – Moe’s Place – 21+ $10 /$15
6/21 Idaho Falls Idaho D Railed – 18+ $8
6/22 Ketchum Idaho – Whiskey Jacques – 21+ $5
6/23 Clinton Montana – Rock Creek Lodge – All Ages $20 / $30
6/24 TBA
6/27 Sioux Falls South Dakota – Rookies – 21+ $7
6/28 Minneapolis Minnesota – Cabooze – 18+ $8
6/29 Ames Iowa – DG’s Taphouse – 21+ $10
6/30 Omaha NE - Love Fest  
7/2 Chicago Illinois – Reggies Music Joint – 21+ $5/ $9
7/4 TBA
7/5 Garrettsville Ohio – Nelsons Ledges Quarry Park – All Ages $40/ $60
7/6 TBA
7/7 Garrettsville Ohio – Nelsons Ledges Quarry Park – All Ages $40/ $60
7/8 Evansville Indiana – Lamasco Bar – 21+ $4
7/11 Huntsville Alabama – Humphrey’s Bar & Grill – 21+ free
7/12 Saint Louis Missouri – The Broadway Oyster Bar – 21+ $5
7/13 Lone Tree Iowa – Camp Euforia – All Ages $50/ $85
7/14 Franconia Township Minnesota – Franconia Sculpture Park – All Ages free
7/20 Albert Lea Minnesota – Where It Matters Bar – 21+ free
7/27 Hager City Wisconsin – Harbor Bar – All Ages $5/$9
8/4 Cross Lake MN
8/5 Arnolds Park Iowa – Bracco – Jon Wayne solo acoustic – All Ages free
8/10 TBA
8/11 TBA
8/17 Iowa City Iowa – Iowa City Yacht Club – 21+ $5
8/18 Iowa City – Saturday Night Concert Series – All Ages
8/19 Cedar Rapids Iowa – Mahoney’s CR Inc – 21+ free
8/24 Moorhead Minnesota – Ushers House – 21+ $7 $10

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We’re counting the days until we leave on our Higher Elevation Tour! Jon Wayne and The Pain will be spending another winter on the road visiting our favorite places out west. Our trek will take us to higher places where the vibes are as high as Rick James on pay day. As we visit our favorite mountain towns, we hope to see you in the crowd dancing with us and on the mountain riding the pow!

The energetic West Coast reggae-rockers Synrgy will be Joining us for well over half the tour.  Our talented friend Ben Suchy will also be joing us on the road. 

Artist info & tour dates:

Synrgy West Coast Reggae-Rock band Synrgy will be joining us for 36 dates!  Originally planted in Flagstaff AZ, Grown in Humboldt County, Smoked all over the World. SYNRGY is a Reggae Massive Movement hailing from NorCal, who tour across the globe spreading Positive Motivational Music that blossoms the Soul.

Ben Suchy Ben Suchy will be joining us for 10 dates in January.  Joining us on the first stretch of our tour will be our good friend Ben Suchy.  In Bismark North Dakota, the singer/song writer is known as the king of acoustic.  Sometimes with a band but mostly rolling solo, Ben Suchy serves up smooth melodies from slide guitar and harmonica accompanied by catchy vocals.

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Live From Moscow is a powerful display of the trio’s “Reggae-Tronic Dub”.  The band creates a unique psychedelic Reggae sound by blending Reggae-Rock, Roots, and Ska with evolving bass heavy tangents of electronic dub.

Grab your free download now and please help JWP spread the love by sharing it with  your fam.

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We’ve spent the last couple months all over the western half of the US and these next dates will bring our focus a bit closer to home. You can already start to feel that nip in the air which makes us want to play some shows and put on some miles.  Some people ask ”doesn’t it suck to always be away from home in that van”? and the answer is NO! We love what we do and are so grateful to everyone who has supported our music over the last 6 years. We would be nothing without all of our dedicated friends & fans. Looks like its time to put on your dancing shoes and “GET IN THE VAN!”. We will see you at the next show!

TOUR DATES (UPDATED)

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Making guest appearances on the album are Slightly Stoopid’s horn players and percussionist Christofer “C Money” Welter, Daniel “DELA” Dela Cruz, and Oguer “OG” Ocon.  Minneapolis hip-hop artist Yoni also contributes to the album with a unique indie hip-hop meets roots-reggae track.

The album was re-released as Follow Through II with new drum tracks performed by Tito Miller in early 2012 over a year after moving from percussionist to drummer.

The album was recorded by Lewis Richards at his 17th St Recording Studio in Costa Mesa, CA.  Richards has produced albums for Slightly Stoopid and has production credits on Sublime’s self titled album.

Click here to watch an in-studio documentary offering an intimate look into the Follow Through recording process.

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We’re excited to be heading back out to the west coast this summer!

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Midwest reggae rockers Jon Wayne and The Pain are once again trekking across the country showcasing their unique mix of Reggae, Rock and Dub.

Reliably packing dance floors, the perpetually touring act has really evolved in the past year on the road. Their sound continues to morph with their live Dub-Step experimentation and high energy renditions of their original and catchy recorded tracks.

! These dates and more will be added to the tour soon:

May 12 – Grand Forks
May 6th – Mankato MN
March 27 – Tampa FL
April 26 – Denver CO

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Jon Wayne and The Pain covers Candyman by Grateful Dead.

Candyman is the fifth song on American Beauty, the fifth studio album by the Grateful Dead.

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Read the full article by Hanna Kramer here.

Jon Wayne and The Pain share funky reggae sound on Saturday

BY HANNAH KRAMER | OCTOBER 21, 2010 7:20 AM

Packed in a van full of guitars, drums, and other performance necessities, the four members of Jon Wayne and the Pain took off from Minneapolis last month and began a tour around the country to share its funky reggae sound.

The group will play the Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn St., at 10 p.m. today. Admission is $5. Aaron Kamm & the One Drops will open the show.

The tour began after some unexpected changes in the group.

“It was a really tough spot to be in,” said lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist Wayne.

After losing its drummer, the group rebounded quickly by adding Scottie Zaker and an additional percussionist, Tito Milla, three months ago.

Wayne said the tour’s success so far is a result of the new positive relationships in the band. Audiences can count on a fun show put on by a group of new friends.

The Yacht Club has hosted the group in the past, and people at the club are excited about the band’s return. The band members said they are encouraged by the supportive atmosphere for independent and local musicians at the venue.

“They’re not cheesy reggae,” said Yacht Club employee Pete McCarthy. “They don’t try too hard to sound like traditional reggae.”

Wayne and the other band members are working on their live performance to entice new fans. The four musicians focus on their professional career as a group and the quality of how their individual sounds work together. Wayne said it’s refreshing to work with other musicians as dedicated to a musical vision as he is.

The songs audiences will hear deal with life’s struggles. For example, “None More Dat” is about being alone and doing things in life that will hurt you, then moving past them. Wayne wrote this song about his battle with drugs and alcohol in the past.

“It’s about the things that hold us down and keep us from being who we should really be,” he said.

Wayne has a tremendous voice, McCarthy said, and he doesn’t try to change it to sound like other reggae musicians. Drawing from the shows he has heard, McCarthy said the band mixes a Sublime sort of sound with reggae and adds its own flavor.

Despite lyrics that are serious in subject matter, the band members like to keep things high-spirited on- and off-stage.

“We keep sarcasm high in our band,” Wayne said. “We like to give each other a hard time a lot of the time.”

And the guys’ fun attitudes are sure to appear in the Iowa City show. In fact, they invite audiences to enjoy it as much as they do.

“We’re going to be dancing,” Wayne said. “So feel free to dance with us.”

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The trio’s debut full length, Jon Wayne and The Pain, was first released in May of 2008.  Wayne had played acoustic shows with a few fiends in Fargo in a project called Happens Often.  After moving to Minneapolis and forming Jon Wayne and The Pain, the catchy original tunes multiplied while practicing and playing house parties at Wookiefoot’s infamous Playhouse.  During this time Jon Wayne and The Pain was formed and their first album was written.

Wookiefoot singer/songwriter Mark Murphy took Jon under his wing to record the band’s debut  album.  Murphy makes numerous appearances on the album playing anything and everything from keys to lead guitar to hand drums. Minneapolis emcee Yoni, who you might remember from Matisyahu’s “Live at Stubbs” collaborates with JWP on the track “None More Dat”

This well crafted album would propel Jon Wayne and The Pain to national status. These songs, undeniably classics, at least in the local Midwest tribes, are easy singalongs at festivals where the crowd nearly drowns out the band’s shirtless front man.

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Thanks to Erika Iverson, IowaInsider.com, and DG’s Tap House for the opportunity to share our music!  Let us know if you have a podcast or music blog we could be a part of ↓

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The MoBoogie crew was extremely professional and it was a pleasure to be involved in their project.  They were true pimps and even gave us MoBoogie shirts!  Thanks to MoBoogie for having us!  We think MoBoogie is rad, what about you?

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Rude boy antics -  JWP and Bernie Worrell  in the van – Aberdeen, SD.

Thanks to Jam’s Space for the video work!

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VAIL, Colorado — Listening to Bob Marley on a cold North Dakota night changed Jon Wayne’s life.

“It was new to me and I immediately felt more of a connection to it than any style I had previously heard,” he said.

Eventually Wayne formed his own band, Jon Wayne & The Pain. The group’s fans coined the term “redemption reggae” to describe their lyrics and sound, which Weight calls a mix of reggae, ska, blues and improvisational jams.

“We’re trying to promote the positive and move past the thing that have been holding us down and keeping us from who we were meant to be,” Weight said.

Jon Wayne & The Pain performed at the Sandbar in West Vail in April when they opened for The Melodians. They’re returning to the Sandbar for a free show Thursday night.

Vail Daily: You opened for The Melodians at the Sandbar recently. Tell me about that show.

Jon Wayne: It was amazing to play with those guys. They actually watched our set and gave us some big love on our sounds. I told them that our style of reggae would have never existed if they hadn’t paved the way back in the 1960s first.

VD: How did growing up in North Dakota’s cold climes influence the music you make?

JW: Coming from North Dakota and having mainly top 40 radio crap to listen to I wanted to separate myself from what the locals would have called “good music.” The Ironic thing is that now the people I thought were fools for listening to the radio now frequent our shows and are some of our most diehard fans.

VD: What inspires your lyrics?

JW: My lyrics are inspired from good and bad times I’ve had in my life. Some of the songs are affirmations of the great things I’ve seen in humanity and how spirituality has improved my life. Some of the songs are about my personal struggle with addiction, and the triumph over it. As long as I keep my lyrics focused on the postitive and conscious, I believe I’m on the right track.

VD: You’ve performed with members of Sublime and Slightly Stoopid on occasion. How did that come about?

JW: I feel blessed to have played with members of two of our favorite bands, Sublime and Slightly Stoopid. We did a tour last summer through the midwest and Colorado with Stone Wing, whose drummer is Eric Wilson from the band Sublime. Two shows into the tour our bassist Chuckie Torgerson hurt his wrist and wasn’t able to play. Eric stepped in and played the remainder of our shows with us until Chuck’s wrist healed. We also had a chance to play with OG, C Money, and Dela from the band Slightly Stoopid. They also played horns and percussion on our new album we just released this spring.

VD: Tell me about that album, “Follow Through,” and how it’s been received so far.

JW: It has already created new opportunities for us. As I said earlier, it features some Slightly Stoopid members, and it also has a track with Yoni, who was featured on the 2005 Matisyahu release “Live At Stubbs.” We put a great amount of time, money and love into this album and I think it really shows when you hear it. We’ve had great reviews of it so far and one of the songs will be featured in Relix Magazine’s July Sampler CD.

VD: I like your band name. How did you come up with it?

JW: The name Jon Wayne & The Pain was named at our first show back in 2005. It originally didn’t have much meaning other than that it rhymed. But after some of my personal struggles with addiction, it ended up having much more of a deeper meaning.

VD: Why should people come to your show at the Sandbar on Thursday?

JW: You should come to our show at the Sandbar if you like to dance. We will be playing some rocksteady, roots, reggae/rock and some improvised jams as well.

High Life Editor Caramie Schnell can be reached at 970-748-2984 or cschnell@vaildaily.com.

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The video is a bit shaky, but that’s what happens when you dance and film at the same time!  Thanks to scetchyforlife for posting this vid.

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We dug these 2 tracks out of the archives and posted them as free downloads >>

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“I got the chance to tag along with Jon Wayne and The Pain for their trip to South Dakota with Bernie Worrell. This is a candid sidewalk interview at a coffee shop in Aberdeen the morning following the show w/ Bernie. Bernie got a chance to listen to the whole CD in the van on the way to Aberdeen, and then played some of the songs with Jon Wane and The Pain. This is an endorsement, not a commercial~peace and respect.”

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Jon Wayne and The Pain - Official Site - Reggae Rock & Electronic Dub

Interview endorsement from Bernie Worrell

In-Studio Documentary/Promo Video

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