Young Ginns began in November 1991 when Unwound was staying at The Embassy house where Nation Of Ulysses guitarist Tim Green lived. Somehow around the coffee table, an idea was conceived to have a “jam band” in the vein of the instrumental songs of Black Flag and other SST artists. Brandt Sandeno stuck with the drums while Justin Trosper went back to his previous role as a bass player with Green on guitar. A couple fun sessions happened, that sometimes sounded like Black Flag but more like the guitar player from NOU and some Unwound dudes. A few days later Unwound went on their long way back home to Olympia, WA. After NOU broke up, Green packed up, went west and settled in Olympia where Sandeno and Trosper lived. Sandeno had since left Unwound but he and Trosper were always looking for an excuse to play together. Since there was so much free creativity and time bouncing around in 1993 Olympia, the Young Ginns idea was easily reborn in the Red House basement where Green lived and was building up his next studio. Teenaged San Diego transplant Brett Frost decided that the band needed a frontman after witnessing a few practices and wiggled his way into the fold. A couple of local shows and a recording session at the Red House led to a malt liquor and nyquil-fueled west coast tour with a 7-inch record fresh off the presses from Gravity records (release #3) of San Diego. The return to...
LP $27.00
04/19/2024
The Young Ginns formed in the winter of 1991 while Justin Trosper and Brandt Sandeno were stranded at the D.C. home of Tim Green (ex-Nation of Ulysses, now with the Champs) while on tour with Unwound. Since young writers could be termed "young Ginsburgs," nascent instrumentalists with aspirations, they reasoned, could be similarly nicknamed "young Ginns," et voilà. Eventually everyone involved lived on the same coast (ours), making possible nightly annihilation of the Red House basement in delusional SST frenzies. Brett Frost heard the call to illumination so acutely that he crawled out of his hole and in a Nyquil stupor, acted out his wildest Darby dreams. What began as a math rock fantasy transformed into a punk rock nightmare. Lucky you.
CD $12.00
01/08/2001