AGE: 35

HOMETOWN: Aiken

OCCUPATION: Director of visual communications and Web development at the University of South Carolina Aiken

MEMBER OF: The Dispatch, 2005-08

STYLE: "We jokingly ... use the term 'y'allternative,' because it's kind of, I don't know, just a mixture of rock, country and blues."

PLAYS: Bass

FAVORITE GIG: Aiken Brewing Co. during the 2008 Lobster Races. "It went real well. ... It was packed. The crowd was great. Everything just kind of came together."

WORST GIG: Aiken, late 1990s. "We actually had to plug into outlets in the ceiling that weren't grounded. So I think every time we'd go for a mike, we'd get shocked. ... This was many years ago. It was actually before we were The Dispatch."

FAVORITE BOOK: "My wife and I read a lot. As silly as it sounds, we're big into the Harry Potter books right now. We've read all of them."

SONGWRITING PROCESS: "Usually it's a result of all of us being together. Somebody, usually it's Jim or Michael, will bring a lick that they've come up with, and we'll jam on it. ..."

A FAVORITE MOVIE: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

HAND-PICKED CONCERT LINEUP: Led Zeppelin, How Many More Times; The Rolling Stones, Brown Sugar; Jimi Hendrix, Bold as Love; the Blue Dogs, Walter; Allman Brothers, Whipping Post.