DATE:  20/06/08

NAME: RANGE WAR (Dan Snyder)

INSTRUMENT(s): Vocals/Guitar

CURRENT RELEASE:Coming soon. . .’Torn, Tattered and Frayed’
(working title)

1. Biggest Influence(s)?
George Jones, Robert Johnson,
Baudelaire,
and anyone who has spilt there guts out into word and music.

2. Favourite records/tracks old or new?
George Jones – any of ‘em, they’re all damn good!, Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grappelli & The Hot Club, Exhile On Main Street, Back In Black, Steve Earle’s Guitar Town, Pet Sounds,
Hank Williams Live On The Radio.

3. What would you be if not a musician?
? I’m also a film maker.  I worked with Don Letts on the award winning documentary ‘Punk Attitude’ and Dick Carruthers on ‘Heavy Metal Louder Than Life’.  So I’d do that but I’m a creative guy so no worries here.

4. Career high point so far?
Working with Don Letts who is also a musician/film maker, and of course writing my last song, and every performance is a highpoint.  

5. Perfect night off?   
Outside listening to the wolves.

6. Most recent CD in your CD player?  
Latest Dropkick Murphy’s – they are the shit.  I mean I love great Irish music and what they do with it and the punk attitude. . .shit!
I want to do a doc on them.  I’m a big fan.

7. Favourite book/film?
Right now I’m reading ‘Over The Edge Of The World’ by Laurence Bergreen.  I read a lot of Baudelaire.

As far as film goes. . .let’s see. . .always the greats – ‘Citizen Kane’
and of course ‘Punk Attitude’.

8. Whiskey - Jack or Jim?
Well good question, when I was younger I hit Wild Turkey 101 pretty heavy.  That was a good fightin’ whiskey, well now I’m a bit more sophisticated.  I like a Scottish blend called Islay Mist.  You can’t get it in the States but when I travel across the pond I get what I can carry!