Both Snyder and Thompson were born in December of 1946, and are products of a rural Ohio upbringing. Snyder first encountered Thompson when Bob`s band, The Cavaliers, played a country club sock hop in 1961. The Cavaliers were active throughout the 1960s, recorded a couple of independent 45s, and made it to Europe to perform at the Berlin wall. Although Snyder picked up the acoustic guitar during the folk boom of the early `60s, he was turned on to the possibilities of electric guitar when Andy Warhol`s Exploding Plastic Inevitable with The Velvet Underground and Nico came to the Cincinnati Music Hall in late 1966.

It wasn`t until 1972 that Snyder and Thompson started playing together regularly at Bob`s old farm house. Thompson`s drums were set up in his kitchen -- so that`s where they recorded their first album. Daily Dance came out in 1973, and was distributed nationally by New Music Distribution Service -- a specialist in non-commercial music. When a tape of Daily Dance was submitted to Carla Bley, the jazz composer who, with her husband Michael Mantler, founded NMDS, she replied "Put it out! I like it!" Daily Dance was reissued on CD by Warm O` Brisk (Newport, RI) in 1998 and has received very positive reviews from all over the world. Something all the reviews have in common is that they "can`t believe these guys in Ohio recorded this in a kitchen 25 years ago!" Nick Cain of New Zealand`s Opprobrium wrote "...who could have guessed that a drums/guitar duo recorded in a kitchen in Ohio in 1972 would sound this good in 1998? I cannot think of anything remotely comparable being made anywhere else on planet earth at the time. The playing is all-round splendid, unfettered and un-self-conscious, and in its day can now be said to have set an invisible benchmark. Absolutely the year`s most amazing out-of-nowhere archival find. Forgotten brilliance stylishly revived."

Snyder moved to New York City in 1976. By day he worked for a large corporation in midtown. By night he played in a downtown band called Sick Dick and The Volkswagens. Sick Dick played the burgeoning late `70s/early `80s Manhattan club scene. The critic Lester Bangs was a fan of theirs. Meanwhile, back in Ohio, Thompson was doing a little farming, designing and building his passive-solar Human Effigy house, and doing the odd pick up gig... say with Pharoah Sanders! At the end of 1983, when Snyder moved back to Ohio, Thompson was busy drumming with some of Chicago`s top blues artists. Snyder released a solo LP (but still featuring Thompson on one cut), The Conversation, in 1987.

Snyder and Thompson`s modus operandi has changed little over the years: a for-the-moment meeting of scholarship and instinct. They continue to record at Bob`s rural Ohio home studio, and released Robots in 1991. England`s The Wire wrote "In some parallel universe, Sonny Sharrock, Robert Wyatt, Adrian Belew, Joey Baron and everyone who`s ever been in Test Department, Faust, Hawkwind and AMM met and formed a rather large rock band. In our continuum, we have Snyder (guitars, MIDI guitars and keyboards) and Thompson (drums, percussion, occasional voice) producing this rhythmic, pacy, spacy, grungy, riff-driven rockoid music. It`s heady stuff, too."

Snyder and Thompson perform in public occasionally, but it has been left up to Bob to pursue the profession of musician. For six years, Thompson was drum and creative percussion artist for Mad River Theater Works, receiving grants from The National Endowment For The Arts each year for his contribution. He has recorded with Alison Krauss, and can currently be heard performing in Dayton`s Puzzle of Light, Michael Bashaw`s Sound Sculpture concerts, and in tracks for the film The Dream Catcher.

Snyder and Thompson will release the follow-up to Daily Dance, The Damascus Tapes, in 2000.