We rewind way back to before the band started and hear how some of the founding members first met one another. We learn how Sunburned’s precursor band – Shit Spangled Banner – formed, released a tape, and broke up. Thurston Moore provides narrative exposition about the wider music scene that partially informed Sunburned’s formation. We get a third-eye tour of the band’s incubator – an illegal loft space in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston. Finally, we hear about several early band members and how all their eccentricities ultimately drove the band’s jamming.

Here’s an amazing and extremely early glimpse of Sunburned playing live in late 1997. You can see many of the musicians described in this episode! You can check out Shit Spangled Banner’s Ass Run release here, and this is the discogs entry for the “other” version. Click through the images to see the accompanying note from Byron Coley. Also, here’s Byron’s piece remembering Marc Orleans published in The Wire. And this is an album by Marc Orleans’s band Juneau. We were wondering if Lothlorien – the Tolkein-themed space in southern Indiana was real. Here’s a fascinating article about it. 

Check out Sunburned Hand of the Man’s Instagram profile for more pictures related to this episode!

Sunburned’s Bandcamp 

Sunburned’s Website

Songs heard in this episode:

Loveletter to Complicated Dreams - Mind of a Brother (excerpts heard throughout the episode)

Birth of Dearth - Mind of a Brother

Shit Spangled Banner - Smallplant Fields - No Dolby/No DBX

SSB - Heaven Often Manifests as Silence

The If With the Golden Qualm - Mind of a Brother

The Brother of All Shakes - Mind of a Brother

Or 

Check out this Spotify playlist with all the songs heard in this and previous week’s episodes!

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