Name: Adam Gimbel

What you play in Rookie Card: sing & guitaralong

Role in band: social butterfly

Born: Chicago

Lived: San Diego, Northridge (pre-quake), Bay Area (El Cerrito), Hollywood, back to San Diego

What's up with that picture? Kiwanis little league team circa 1981. All glove, no bat.

Favorite musics: The Backbeat Band, Beastie Boys, Big Daddy, Bunky, Dregs of Humanity (from It's Your Move), Electric Mayhem, The Event, Love Jones, The Loved Ones, Luminar, New Pornographers, The Posies, The Postal Service, Redd Kross, The Replacements, The Rutles, Sloan, Spice Girls, Spinal Tap, Starock, Tenacious D, Tucker, Warlord, Weezer

A few favorite tunes: A Quick One (live) by The Who, I Don't Like Mondays by The Boomtown Rats, Not Too Soon by The Throwing Muses, Makeout Club by Unrest, This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us by Sparks

Favorite singers: Jeff Mangum from Neutral Milk Hotel, Jonathan Richman, Jeff Tweedy (Wilco), Pete Townshend, Elliott Smith

Other bands you've been in: Cover Me Badd, Beatnik Bitch, Cracklin' Oat Band, The Xanadu Project, Pen 13, Suzanne & The Summerz, Rabbi Gimbel's Jews Explosion, The Fookin' Wankers (Fauxasis), The Replacement Replacements, Assault Shaker, Blasphemous Guitars

First concert: Sha Na Na (w/parents), Gogos/Red Rockers (w/o parents)

Websites I'm a part of: Garden of Speedin (day job), Wannabe Rawkstar (self indulgent songwriter), Can You Still Feel Him Up (Falk Rawk), See Summer Swing Dance (tribute to a gurl)
Favorite links: Art of the Mix, Minipops, Yo La Tengo's "Sugarcube" video (everything you need to know about rock), Gimme Skelter, Stereogum

Favorite rookie card and why: Mike Schmidt (1973). As a kid, I worshipped the man and still have a whole book filled with his cards. I never did get the rookie. Back then, it was only worth $150. Check them sideburns!

Favorite Wookie card:

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