[2] His father was in the US Armed Forces, and the Strait family moved around the country throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, before deciding to settle down in Santa Barbara, California, when Lynn was 10 years old.

[citation needed] Strait was friends with Tairrie B, and Snot played their first show in 1995 opening for Manhole (later known as Tura Satana).

[3][4] While his bandmates were signing the contracts, Strait was completing a month-long sentence in the county jail, where he had spent a year in the early 1990s.

Also killed in the accident was Strait's dog, Dobbs, who was on the cover of the band's 1997 debut album Get Some, and served as the group's mascot.

A tribute album entitled Strait Up was released on November 7, 2000, on Virgin Records/Immortal Records, compiled with the help of members of Limp Bizkit, Korn, Slipknot, Sevendust, Hed PE, Coal Chamber, Sugar Ray, System of a Down, Soulfly, Incubus, Ozzy Osbourne, and others.

[6] On August 7, 1999, fans were encouraged to buy copies of Snot's debut CD Get Some in an attempt to cause a jump in the charts on what would have been Strait's 31st birthday.