Moppa Elliott

Matthew Thomas "Moppa" Elliott was born on September 13, 1978, the first son of David and Carolyn Elliott in Scranton, PA, his parents both college instructors and intense music lovers. After a brief introduction to the piano, he started to play the trombone in the sixth grade. Deciding a few years later he wanted to play an instrument with strings, he was given an electric bass guitar. At age 17, he fixed up his father's old acoustic bass in order to audition for a summer program, and began to study the bass seriously with Pocono resident Tony Marino. In the fall of 1997, he ...