“I have a solo with lots of strobe and flashing lights. I made up something I could play with my eyes closed and not go blind!” Jason Orme on the unexpected challenges of working with Alanis Morissette, Kelly Clarkson and Sarah McLachlan

Jason Orme.

Like so many others, Jason Orme grew up loving Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles. Also like so many others, he began playing guitar in school.

“My seventh grade friend Bob was already playing bass,” he recalls. “One day he said, ‘If you played guitar we could have a band!’ That was it.” He didn’t secure a guitar until he was 14, though. “I convinced my mom to buy me this $30 nylon-string at a record store one day. I still have that guitar!”