Jason Lytle

A fan of music at an early age, he played drums as a child. Skateboarding, however, captured his interest and by his late teens he was a sponsored amateur.[1] While laid up with a career-ending ACL injury, he started to play music again—writing songs and eventually setting up a home studio. Grandaddy came together gradually, signed to V2 Records, put out albums, and toured the world.

Struggling with substance abuse problems, Lytle cleaned up at the expense of his relationship with the rest of the band; recording much of the band's final album, Just Like the Fambly Cat, on his own. In December 2005—six months prior to the release of The Fambly Cat—the band decided break up; the reasons included elusive mainstream success (despite widespread critical acclaim) and lack of money. Early in 2006, Lytle moved to Montana from Modesto, California, where he had lived his whole life.

Mid-2006 saw Lytle briefly touring the U.S. in support of The Fambly Cat, playing new arrangements of Grandaddy songs as a duo with Rusty Miller of Jackpot. The tour was brokered as part of a deal to get V2 to agree to releasing a Grandaddy DVD that Lytle has in the works.

As of July 2008, Lytle is working on a solo album scheduled to be released in 2009.