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Jason Didner

@jasondidner@gardenstate.social

Jersey rock with Jersey humor...and heart. Founder of Jason Didner and the Drive, player of #HashtagGames. Best known for "You Can't Get There from Here in Jersey." Dad, husband, living kidney donor, IT guy.

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Joined September 20, 2023

Official web site:

https://jasondidner.com

Bandcamp:

https://jasondidnermusic.bandcamp.com/

YouTube:

https://youtube.com/jasondidner

Linktree:

https://linktr.ee/jasondidner

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Jason Didner @jasondidner@gardenstate.social · Aug 07, 2026

Bandcamp Friday's here — no cut to Bandcamp today, so buying goes straight to us. Asbury Heart is a Jersey rock love letter to Asbury Park's musicians and true believers — a town's hard-fought comeback, told through the people who made it happen. https://jasondidnermusic.bandcamp.com/album/asbury-heart #BandcampFriday #NewJerseyMusic #IndieMusic #AsburyPark

Jason Didner @jasondidner@gardenstate.social · May 04, 2026

Radio Alert! World premiere of “You-Know-Who” on @BlowUpRadio@gardenstate.social in 7pm hour Eastern this evening. BlowUpRadio presents New NJ Music.

https://blowupradio.com

Jason Didner @jasondidner@gardenstate.social · May 03, 2026

One of the great legends of the Jersey Shore is that "you-know-who" might show up and give a surprise performance at the end of the night. As a young working musician I got caught up in that hype once. Decades later, it found its way into a song.

🎵 New track from the upcoming album Asbury Heart

🎟️ Album launch May 15 at Porta in Asbury Park

https://jasondidner.com/blogs/blog-jason-didner-music/posts/7759738/i-heard-you-know-who-might-show-up

Jason Didner @jasondidner@gardenstate.social · Apr 27, 2026

RE: @BlowUpRadio@gardenstate.social

Happening now! New NJ Music with Lazlo on BlowUpRadio. He’ll premiere a track from my upcoming album “Asbury Heart” before it’s released.

Jason Didner @jasondidner@gardenstate.social · Apr 27, 2026

I think the very stable genius is off his sleep meds. 🤨

Jason Didner @jasondidner@gardenstate.social · Apr 26, 2026

@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world

Great story! My encounters with famous musicians are mostly online these days. Going back, I've been to an Aimee Mann album signing in NYC. She was gracious and good to meet. And I met Phil Collen from Def Leppard in the stands at a Bon Jovi concert in NJ. As a guitarist myself, I got to tell him how much I liked Def Leppard's 2-guitar approach.

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Jason Didner @jasondidner@gardenstate.social · Apr 26, 2026

Jason Didner and the GSPs covered 'A Girl Like You' by The Smithereens ahead of our show at Crossroads in Garwood, NJ — a venue Pat DiNizio called home. The band took a moment to acknowledge it. Grateful. 🙏

#Smithereens #IndieRock #NewJerseyMusic

Jason Didner @jasondidner@gardenstate.social · Apr 25, 2026

Squirrel Cat sitting at attention staring right into my soul until I feed her the coveted wet chow.

#Caturday
#CatsOfMastodon

Jason Didner @jasondidner@gardenstate.social · Apr 24, 2026

I was not in the antenna's reach when I was a teenager. Decades later when I saw a documentary about this scrappy modern rock radio station run out of someone's house in Eatontown, NJ, I was floored by the story, and inspired to write a song about it.

Read my reaction here: https://jasondidner.com/blog/blog/7754420/the-story-behind-house-on-hope-road

Jason Didner @jasondidner@gardenstate.social · Apr 23, 2026

Same building. Same address. Same $1 door charge (adjusted for inflation). 54 years after Bruce and Clarence first played together at the Student Prince, we're hosting our Asbury Heart album launch at Porta — 911 Kingsley St., Asbury Park.

Read the story: https://jasondidner.com/blog/blog/7753818/the-building-where-bruce-s-band-was-born

#AsburyPark #JerseyShore #BruceSpringsteen #IndieRock #LiveMusic #NewJersey #AsburyParkNJ

Jason Didner @jasondidner@gardenstate.social · Apr 22, 2026

Very stable genius in the house. 🤨

Jason Didner @jasondidner@gardenstate.social · Apr 19, 2026

People in the audience used to tell me at my early gigs in the 90s that I sound like Elvis Costello. You can see for yourselves whether or not they were right about this.

https://youtu.be/z-4ijEi2dO0

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Jason Didner and the GSPs - (The Angels Want to Wear my) Red Shoes - Elvis Costello cover

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Jason Didner @jasondidner@gardenstate.social · Apr 17, 2026

As Jesus said at the Last Supper, "I have a bad feeling about this."

Keep it going.

#PeteHegsethBibleQuotes
#HashtagGames

Jason Didner @jasondidner@gardenstate.social · Apr 15, 2026

I was responding to a FB post in a group when it was taken down. The question: "Do you listen to musicians because of their politics?"

I was writing this answer but there was no place to put it once the post was removed. So, here goes...

Music is what animates a movement. Can you imagine the Vietnam protests of the 60s without its soundtrack? Not all musicians are in it to keep the beat to a movement. Some are there to make you dance, bring the party.

Jason Didner @jasondidner@gardenstate.social · Mar 28, 2026

Squirrel Cat hanging out in the cat cave made by our teenage daughter.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Jason Didner @jasondidner@gardenstate.social · May 09, 2024

Replying to @cibo@universeodon.com

@cibo @bbbhltz Sorry for the not-specific-enough link. Looks like it was to my page in general. This one goes right to the song and its lyrics. https://jasondidnermusic.bandcamp.com/track/zeroes-and-ones

Jason Didner @jasondidner@gardenstate.social · May 09, 2024

Replying to @bbbhltz@framapiaf.org

@bbbhltz Sounds about right. "A solution in search of a problem we haven't got." I wrote a song about this, called "Zeroes and Ones." https://jasondidnermusic.bandcamp.com/track/zeroes-and-ones

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