Jed Simon
| Jed Simon | |
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Jed Simon performing with the Devin Townsend Project at The Retinal Circus 2012
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jedson Louis Simon |
| Born |
February 27, 1964 Victoria, British Columbia |
| Genres | Thrash metal, industrial metal, extreme metal |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter, musician |
| Instruments | Guitar, bass, vocals, drums, keyboards |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Labels | Century Media |
| Associated acts | Amoros, Caustic Thought, Front Line Assembly, Strapping Young Lad, Devin Townsend, Zimmers Hole, TENET, Scar the Martyr, VIMIC |
| Website | www.legionofflames.com |
| Notable instruments | |
| ESP, Bernie Rico Jr., Jackson | |
Jed Simon (born February 27, 1964) is a Canadian musician. He was a member of supergroup Scar the Martyr and has been a member of numerous metal bands, including Front Line Assembly, Strapping Young Lad, Zimmers Hole, and TENET. He is currently a member of VIMIC.
Jed Simon was born on February 27, 1964 in Victoria, British Columbia. He gained attention in the metal community with his third (speed metal) band Armoros, which was founded in 1985. Armoros disbanded in 1989 after 2 successful demos and an album.
Jed's next band was Caustic Thought, when his career with Byron Stroud began. Jed did 3 demos with Caustic Thought, and when he left them, he gave the job to Devin Townsend. After Caustic Thought, Jed briefly worked with Devin on his Noisescapes project, before Devin left for Los Angeles to play with Steve Vai. In 1995, Devin asked Jed to join his latest project, Strapping Young Lad (aka SYL), and Jed was a part of SYL until the band's split in 2007. Jed contributed guitars to Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing and also performed as a live member for the tour of the album. Jed also appears in the video for S.Y.L. from the same album.
In 1996, Jed joined Front Line Assembly (FLA for short) on their Hard Wired tour as a touring guitarist (and also percussionist on Plasticity and Gun f.ex.). There was a live album and video done from the tour, which became known as Live Wired (1996). After that, Jed returned with SYL, who achieved even greater success with their second album City (1997).
When Front Line Assembly went on to perform the Re-Wind tour in late 1998, Jed was on board again. In 1999, he also contributed guitars to FLA's studio album Implode. Jed's last tour with FLA was the Implosion tour in the spring of 1999. In 2000, Jed worked on Devin Townsend's Physicist project, which is composed of all four members of SYL, but was considered "too light" by Devin to be an SYL album.
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