Lead Volcals/Guitar
Ryan grew up in the house exactly two down from the trailer park (making him only 1/4 white trash) in Plattsmouth, NE, a river town of 7,000. May not sound like many, but compared to the other members of the band he may as well have come from LA. When he's not playing the guit-fiddle, you may catch Ryan getting even chubbier downing dubious amounts of tacos - his favorite food - or playing 8-bit Nintendo games late into the night. He will also gladly preach to you the benefits of said out-dated video game systems over "those new ones, where the only thing you do on the games is walk around and shoot people."
He is also a walking encyclopedia of professional wrestling knowledge. If that sort of thing interests you, Ryan can wax nostalgic about the glory days. The rest of us have probably moved out of our mother's basements and have gotten into chicks.
Influenced mainly by artists as diverse as Chris Cornell, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Johnny Cash and a host of other great singers who also played guitar, he also channels greats like Jimmy Page and Cass Elliot, the latter for whom he still curses every ham sandwich he comes across. Ryan may also be, along with Ted Nugent, one of the only members of the Republican Party in all of rock music.