SNOT were set to
become nu metal’s next breakout band when they released their debut album Get Some in March 1997. The Santa Barbara
five-piece swapped the angst of Korn for larger-than-life party-hard swagger.
And in singer Lynn Strait, they had a charisma bomb waiting to explode.
Formed in 1995, they carved out a name for themselves on
the West Coast club scene alongside Coal Chamber, Incubus and System Of A Down.
Lynn himself was a livewire onstage and off - he’d done jail time for weapons
violations and assaulting a cop, though he was
a charming rogue rather than a hardened thug.
Wherever Lynn went, his beloved boxer dog Dobbs was by his
side, and it was Dobbs’ face that peered out from the cover of Get Some when it was released via Geffen in the Spring
of 1997. The album found Lynn drawing on his experiences with drugs and crime
for inspiration - one song, Stoopid had been
written while he was in jail for some transgression or other.
Snot hit the road in support of the album, bagging a spot
on the 1998 Ozzfest, where the singer was arrested for indecent exposure after
stripping off onstage during Limp Bizkit’s set. Everything was pointing towards
Korn-sized greatness when disaster struck. On December 11,1998, Lynn was killed
in a car smash en route from Santa Barbara to LA. His dog Dobbs died with him.
Snot’s second album, 2000’s Strait
Up, was a tribute to the vocalist - with Jonathan Davis, Fred Durst and
more, depping for their fallen friend. By that point, nu metal was the defining
sound of the era. It’s a tragedy that Lynn Strait wasn’t around to be part of
it.
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