Name: Gabe Acock

What you play in Rookie Card: Guitar, Trumpet, Maybe more?

Role in band: Collector of vices.

Born: Pasadena, CA 01/21/76

Lived: Pasadena CA, Norman OK, Blacksburg VA, Baton Rouge LA, Corvallis OR, Sunny San Diego (Downtown and then North Park).

What's up with that picture? My First Rookie Card Show. Casbah 4/30/02 w/ Beulah and Mazarin

Favorite musics: No particular order: Built To Spill, Sea and Cake, Modest Mouse, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, old Metallica, Black Sabbath (w/Ozzy), Judas Priest, Michael Jackson, J Church, Clifton Chenier (zydeco), Dickle Bros. (old time), bluegrass, Glen Miller, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Cure, New Order, OMD, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Spinanes...

A few favorite tunes: Bizarre Love Triangle (New Order), Whiter Shade of Pale (Procul Harum), Mustang Sally, Pachobel's Canon, Bell Bottom Blues (Eric Clapton).

Favorite singers: Doug Marsh of Built To Spill, dude from Guided By Voices, Hank Ballard of Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, Hank Williams, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, Etta James, John Fogerty, Wilson Pickett, Nicola (Scared For No Reason, Lola's Luck), Cam (Ice*Pop*Candy, he's now a dancer for the Dandy Warhols)

Favorite guitarists: Rebecca Gates (Spinanes), Doug Marsh (Built To Spill), Andre Segovia, Santana (70's), Lance (J Church), Jeff Ott (Fifteen, CrimpShrine)

Other bands you've been in: Round Nine (Vocals/guitar), ViceRoy (drums), AnyKid (drums), Ice*Pop*Candy (drums), Naked Men (bass), Sex Team (Vocals/guitar), Scared For No Reason (guitar), Lola's Luck, Tourist (drums), Uphill 53 (guitar), Charlee Brown (bass), Morbid Chicken (Guitar), The Pinwheels and others...

First concert: '87 Def Leppard/Queensryche at Pete Marovich Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

First cigarette: '87 Bon Jovi/SkidRow.

Websites I'm a part of: Round Nine, Sex Team, Scared For No Reason, Lola's Luck, Corvallis Music Destroy. They are all bad sites that I put little effort into.

Favorite links: thenation.com, tabcrawler.com.

Favorite rookie card and why: Don Mattingly on Topps. First Rookie Card I got, Don's a good guy, and Topps rules!

Adam Jason Nasr