Dewpoint’s Home

Jon Kildare, Lead, Rhythm, Acoustic Guitars and Vocals: Born 1972 in California, USA, Jon was raised on a steady diet of Guitar based Music. Finding his first Ozzy Cassette, with Randy Rhodes playing on it, sealed Jon’s fate to be one of the few Progressive influenced metal players, the likes of James Hetfield, James Murphy, John Petrucci, Dave Mustaine, Chuck Schuldiner, Dimebag Darrell, and of course Bill Steer, Michael Amott and later Chris Amott, the gates were left wide open. After a misguided move to a small town in New Mexico, in 1992, Jon found himself in a couple of bands, that weren’t very motivated, so he concentrated his efforts in perfecting his unique style and getting the most important factor in his life together, he became a Christian. Fast Forward to 2004. Jon finally made it out of New Mexico, finding himself in Utah, with a fat internet connection, and a new inspiration. Thus Dewpoint was born. Taking from his vast pool of influences, his unhealthy interest in weather and his well known sense of natural psychosis, Jon began recording tracks in his bedroom, using an old PC to record on beginning in April of 2005, with a high fanfare. As of December 2006, Jon feels he has finished writing the initial music for the first album, Severe Thunderstorm Warning and is nearly ready to begin looking for new members to join Dewpoint and finish the tracks. But the inspiration and not stopped there…. New ideas and material have been flowing from within and Jon has begun work on a second album that is already proving itself to be even more mature and showing signs of an evolving melodic sense of writing that involves both a heavier sense of riffing coupled with complex changes and unpredictable hooks coupled with deeper melodies and brilliant acoustic passages. Since the new band members have joined, the song writing has taken a new feel and though the songs are getting longer, they’re also getting better.

The Top 5’s (or however many I get too)

Playlist:

1. Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse

2. Neal Morse – The Door

3. Mnemic – DB’XX’D

4. Opeth – Under the Weeping Moon

5. Dream Theater – A Change of Seasons

Essential Albums:

1. Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse

2. Neal Morse – Sola Scriptura

3. Carcass – Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious

4. Tears For Fears – Songs From The Big Chair

5. Malevolent Creation – Retribution

6. Phil Keaggy – The Wind and the Wheat

All Time Favorite Songs:

1. Stone Temple Pilots – Plush

2. Tears for Fears – Shout

3. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here

4. Mercy Me – I Can Only Imagine

5. Dream Theater – A Change of Seasons

The Stranded On A Desert Island Question:

Opeth – Blackwater Park and a guitar so I could play the rest of the stuff I like to myself