Snot

Santa Barbara, late spring 1995, after the breakdown of her thrash metal band Kronix, Mike Doling decides to set up a band with James Lynn Strait that was previously bassist in punk band Lethal Dose. Not taking themselves seriously, they name their Snot training (morve) and recruit Shannon Larkin ( Souls at Zero) and Mike Smith. Larkin managed to integrate his buddies John Fahnerstock and Sonny Mayo (who were with him in the side project M.F. Pitbulls) before leaving at Ugly Kid Joe in May 1996. He was replaced in the battery by his friend Jamie Miller who had found himself sharing a house with Strait, Doling and Fahnestock while he had succeeded Larkin as a Souls at Zero drummer. Before that he played in the punk band Mary Suicide and his energetic game is immediately appreciated by the other four. He will complete the final line-up that in 1996 will be signed by Major Geffen (when Lynn Strait was serving a month in prison, his second stay after a year behind bars in the early 1990s), before releasing his first album Get Some on 27 May 1997.

This promotion, Strait's aura and the exciting music of Snot will attract them the sympathy of the (neo) metal layings that will suggest to Ozzy Osbourne to integrate the quintet into the poster of the Ozzfest 1998 where they will share the secondary scene with among others Motörhead, System of a Down and The Melvins. On Mansfield's date, MA, Strait is arrested after being posted in public, doing things with little Catholics with a dancer from Limp Bizkit.

Back in California, Snot is working on his second opus despite doubts about the future of the Geffen label following the merger of Universal and Polygram. The first shots of its start in November and December 11, 1998 Lynn Strait is responsible for a car accident that will kill him, Dobbs (the group's mascot bulldog) and seriously harm other people.

The remaining four members immediately put an end to Snot and with the songs recorded for the second opus, they invite some friends of Lynn to put their voice on Strait Up (07 November 2000) on which appears the new song Absent . To make the band even more profitable, Hip-O Records (under Universal Division) publishes the live Alive! 30 July
After the website, a Myspace page in tribute to Lynn Strait was created in 2006. She presents a new demo dating back to 1995, Lose .

Post-Snot activities: - Mike Doling became Soulfly guitarist until 2003. He then created Abloom and Invitro . - Sonny Mayo joined Amen in May 1998. In 2004 he left the group to integrate Sevendust . - John Fahnestock also joined Amen before forming other side projects - Jamie Miller was instigator with Mike Smith of Hero, later renamed TheSTART. The band has reformed for a few dates (some with singing the frontman of (HED)P.E). Lynn Strait : singing Mike Doling : guitar John Fahnestock : bass Sonny Mayo : guitar Jamie Miller : drums