Walt Mink (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Walt Mink was formed in February 1989 at Macalester College, a small, liberal arts school in St. Paul, Minnesota. Kimbrough and Waronker reconvened there after briefly attending high school together in Massachusetts, and at once they began playing music and looking for a bass player to fill out a trio. They were introduced to Candice Belanoff, who had only been playing bass for a few months, and the line-up was set. The band started out by playing at college house parties on the weekends, always with an eye to the next potential basement venue. In December 1989, a fellow student offered to record them for a 7" single he was releasing on his own independent label, Skene Records. With that, the band made their first trip into the studio, recording versions of the songs "Fragile" and "Croton-Harmon," both of which would later appear in newer versions on the albums Miss Happiness and Bareback Ride. In March 1990 the trio began recording what was to become Listen Little Man