Jonathan plays guitar. Until the full band was recently formed he also played all other instruments besides piano and voice. Hailing from the CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics) program at Stanford University, Jonathan found that an explanation for his obsession with music, audio research, and faux tape loop compositions could be traced to the following previous events:
3/14/85: A 2-year-old Jonny hears Oingo Boingo for the first time and proceeds to bash his head against his crib bars until they break.
12/27/93: A prepubescent Jonny buys the soundtrack to Beverly Hills Cop 3 and proceeds to listen to it regularly on his Sega CD.
10/8/98: Jonny purchases a CD of Wowee Zowee and begins to understand why Pavement is AMAZING.
12/16/99: Jonny starts playing guitar extremely badly. High school covers of Tom Petty and My Back Pages slide into stranger and stranger fair as he co-founds local band Dr. Def and the Sexual Educators, who sound like what happens when "Will It Blend?" is given a bunch of vinyls from Super Furry Animals, The Strokes, and Pavement, plus a liter of battery acid.
9/2/03: Jonny begins working with his brother Alexander on a random smattering of strange, creepy song fragments that expand into a full album recorded in the brothers' basement. Not knowing what to call the project, they call it the most logical, easy to explain thing possible: Dubious Ranger. It begins.
1/10/05: Jonny becomes a bassist for Stanford cover band The Bee's Knees, who are well-received only by those with a penchant for "hyper-intellectual drunk-rock", which turns out to be quite a lot of people in college.
Today: Jonny's attempts at experimental music overtake his college band hysteria, and after a year of tinkering with new songs which would become the sugary, disturbing "Even These Things Tell Stories," Alexander recruits old Dr. Def members Brendan and Aaron to create a four-piece.
Turn-ons: The Jack in the Box value menu, waking up to musique concrete, extremely nerdy audio stuff, a gorilla riding a dolphin, Back to the Future Part II.
Turn-offs: Back to the Future Part III, a dolphin riding a gorilla riding a dolphin.
