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Jesse Wright
Bass
Jesse Wright started playing guitar at the tender age of 9, fiddling around with an old Epiphone acoustic guitar that was lying around the house.
“I don’t think at that time I was really playing much I think that I just walked around with it acting like I was. I learned a few cords and simple melodies but nothing really to hard.
A few years later when I was 12 I heard a record that changed my life. A friend of mine gave me the "Cowboys From Hell" album from Pantera and I was instantly drawn to the controlled chaos and fury of that sound. 
I picked up that old acoustic guitar and started learning every song on that album, of course it took me quite a few years before I was ever able to play anyone of them but I never put down that guitar again.”

After many years of playing for fun in the confines of his room at the age of 15 Jesse Wright stepped out in to the world of playing music as a passion and a profession.
“The first show I ever played was in a small run down club in San Diego I think it was called pops, my mother’s boyfriend at the time was playing in the cover band called Full Exposure and they invited me to come up on stage and play Crazy Train with them. Ever since that day playing music on a stage in front of any kind of audience has been my only goal and life’s desire.
”A few years later Jesse came into contact with Cage a band based out of San Diego  and they took him under their wing as a friend, student and fellow musician. 
“I leaned allot from those guys, they thought me what it meant to be a real professional musician and how to focus a goal and a hobby into a reality.” During this period of his life Jesse got the idea to start a band paying tribute to the two bands witch has guided his love for metal into a passion Slayer and Pantera. The band was called Slaytera and became fairly well know thought the local metal scene in San Diego.
“I loved playing in this band it was allot of fun. I learned everything I should do as a musician to hone my skills and be able to play with other musicians and I also learned how bands destroy themselves. The band fell apart do to excess partying and personality conflicts, but I still love those guys they are part of the reason I am able to do what I do today and ill never forget that experience.” 

Soon after the breakup of Slaytera Jesse was lost, with no band and no direction he came across an add in one of the local rehearsal studios for a bass player.
“I thought to my self if I can play guitar why not bass, I don’t have anything better to do.” So Jesse called the number in the add and it turned out to be an old friend of his and Jesse then became the bass player for Serrated.

 

Jesse

 

Jesse

His time spent in Serrated was short but it opened up a whole world to Jesse. Soon after leaving Serrated Jesse got a call from Anthony from Cage asking if he was interested in playing bass for them while their bass player was on vacation.
“I was elated to find out that I would get the opportunity to play in a band that has brought so much to my life as a musician. It was my introduction in to the world of professional music.” During the time when Jesse was learning the songs for the gig with cage Jesse was told by Mike Nielson that he had a friend that was looking for a bass player and asked if he would be interested. Jesse accepted the offer and was told that the band would come to the show that following Friday night.

Jesse Jesse & Veronica Jesse

After steeping off stage from playing a great show with Cage, Jesse met Pete Wells for the first time and they instantly became friends.
“I remember the first time I met Pete we had so much fun goofing around. I had no idea what I was getting into".
Pete asked me if I wanted to join the band and of course I said yes not even hearing any of the material. I just had one of those gut feelings about it, something told me, I needed to and it has been the most rewarding experiences of my life. Playing with musicians like Pete has been a dream come true.

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