Cowboy up

We figure since we'll be trying out for this in a year or so, we might as well practice the ol' bio. This way, we can get the kinks out. Or something. (Photo from *way* back in the day).


Age: 71
Hometown: Jersey
Instruments: Guitar
Dream Duets: Sara Evans, Natalie Maines, Jennifer Nettles, Kelly Clarkson

BIO
Old Man Snap is a self-deprecating former fat kid who decided to, as he likes to say, stop whining and start winning way back in October 2004.

He contacted the Newtown School of Music, where his mother bought her first guitar in the early 1970s, for lessons. He wore band aids on his bitten cuticles and struggled with the G. Joe set him straight. No band aids. Ever. Well, unless they're the Almost Famous kind. Then, well, maybe but not really.

Within six months, OMS was playing guitar and not singing in the Philly jam band Dov’s Our Side Project, D(o)SP. Three months later, the band covered the Counting Crows song ‘Round Here. OMS sang. The band broke for dinner at the bridge.

OMS started performing solo at open mic nights in January 2006. Best. Drug. Ever. He'll spare you the stories of plants and prisons and dead flowers and letting go and champagne highs and baker streets. Please forgive him.

In his spare time, OMS plays the guitar every day and b*tches in his blog. He likes porches. And dames. And Guinness.

FUN FACTS ON OLD MAN SNAP
What celebrity do people say you look like?
The fat kid from Stand By Me. RR calls us Richard Gere. Seriously. We're so BFF.

What's on your playlist?
The iTunes loves to play the Cash and the Yonder and all of these things. We dig us some Band, Blind Melon, Dylan and the Dead. Ben Harper comes on a lot. As does Miranda Lambert and Kathleen Edwards. We love the David Gray and Counting Crows, too.

The craziest or most daring thing I have ever done...
We drank turpentine when we were 4 and lived to tell about it, b*tches.

What three things couldn't you live without?
Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow. That sh*t's deep, yo.

What is the first album that you ever purchased?
Album? Grand Illusion by Styxx
8-Track? Boston's Boston
Tape? Chunky A
CD? Neil Young Unplugged
iTunes? Love My Way, Psychedelic Furs

Do you have any pets?
We have a plant named Gregg.

Hobbies outside of music?
Blogging. Rowing. Drinking.

What is your favorite TV show? Movie? Book?
TV show: Grey’s Anatomy
Movie: The Last Waltz
Book: There’s a Wocket in My Pocket

What's your favorite board or video game?
Board: Clue. Mr. Body’s body. It’s gone.

What is your astrological sign?
Pisces

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Currently listening to: Waste.