Dan Hardick is Fingerpistol's singer-songwriter and frontman. He grew up in Stillwater and Norman, Oklahoma then moved to Austin and graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in English, his favorite language. After college Hardick and friend Jeff Rainer formed Bucky Einstein and the Disciples of Relativity, an original rock band featuring Hardick's songs. After three years playing in bars in Texas and Oklahoma, the band broke up. Dan spent the next several years writing songs, cruising open mikes, and woodshedding. In 1994 he formed a new band with bassist Sam Wilson called The Mouthbreathers. Five years later the Mouthbreathers became Fingerpistol and released their first CD, "Big, Wet, Sloppy World" featuring twelve songs by Hardick. Fingerpistol's second CD, "Young and Beautiful," includes eleven more songs by Hardick and was released in October 2008.