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People are usually standoffish when they hear our name," admits Snot guitarist Mike Doling, "but not after they see us. We can get serious and tear your head off, but we also make fun of everybody, including ourselves. I mean, when you have a name like Snot ... " Singer Lynn Strait agrees: "Our subject matter is either pissed off or funny; there's no in-between." Guitarist Sonny Mayo calls the band "a hardcore lounge act." In late spring 1995, after years of playing in Santa Barbara, Calif.-based groups notable for frowns and fury, Doling decided it was time to get a band together just for fun, to play garage parties. Thus the name Snot, a product of kidding around. "We never thought we'd go as far as we have," says Doling. "We figured, who would take us seriously? Who would sign a band called Snot?" But Snot began to get a huge response locally, and when they played venues in Los Angeles, audiences lined up around the block. In June 1996, little more than a year after the band formed, they were signed to Geffen Records. Get Some (released May 13, 1997) is Snot's debut album; it was recorded in North Brookfield, Mass., in October and November of 1996 and produced by T-Ray (House of Pain, Helmet). All of the Snots have paid their dues in underground bands. Doling was in the West Coast speed metal outfit Kronix; Strait played bass in the punk band Lethal Dose. On the East Coast, Mayo was in Silence, a thrash meta ensemble. He later joined bassist John Fahnestock and drummer Jamie Miller in M.F. Pit Bulls. Doling formed Snot - of which he and Strait are the only original members - after Kronix was buried in the grunge avalanche. Music runs in Doling's family: His father was a bassist whose credits include Motown records and Johnny Mathis albums. Strait was born in Manhasset, N.Y., but landed in Santa Barbara as a teen and immediately embraced the SoCal punk scene. Prior to his work with Snot, he had never sung i

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Get Some

Strait Up: A Tribute To Lynn Strait

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