Many famous bands such as Nirvana, Rob Zombie, The Ramones, Joan Jett, Stone Temple Pilots, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Tool, The Black Crowes, Los Lobos, Meat Puppets, and many others performed at the venue.
Scores of bands played at the Mason Jar before they achieved commercial success, such as Tool, Los Lobos, Green Day, Kid Rock, Rage Against the Machine, Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Guns N' Roses.
Mick gave The Mason Jar a badly needed facelift, a substantial sound system upgrade and a new contemporary list of rising stars to perform, such as Linkin Park, Disturbed, Papa Roach, Fall Out Boy, Jimmy Eat World, Opeth, 30 Seconds to Mars and many more.
Mick's appetite for diversity brought The Mason Jar into new genres including country music with acts like David Allan Coe, Hank Williams III and Shooter Jennings.
Mick honored The Mason Jar's roots by hosting acts like Megadeth, The Ramones, Rob Halford, Dishwalla, Frank Black, Vanilla Ice, Stephen Pearcy, Ice-T, Robby Krieger and many, many others.
The Mason Jar was a favorite launching ground of music industry executives like Jenna Adler of Creative Artist's Agency (Papa Roach, The Apex Theory), record labels like Sony and DreamWorks, management agencies like Sanctuary Music (Rob Halford), and of concert promoters like Danny Zelisko, owner of “Evening Star Productions” (later merged with Live Nation), Tom Lapenna and Wil Anderson of Lucky Man Concerts, Kim Larowe of 13th Floor Entertainment and many more.
Acts included The Spiffs/Urge, Raven Payne, Schoolboys Again (with members of Icon, King Kobra and Lizzy Borden), Scratch & Sniff, Egomaniacs, Killer Pussy, Blue Shoes, Box Of Cherries/Einsteins & Scott Rowe.