Major Bummer woke up one evening and decided to place an ad in the Musicians Wanted section of their local guitar shop. It read: “Own gear own transporting no time-wasting band require member(s) to create grand musical project kinda like The Replacements playing Wilco's Being There with Malkmus and Mascis replacing Nels and the other guy while Beach Boys overdub harmonies from their death beds via Skype.” Over the course of a year they received no replies; all 28 tear-off tabs (with landline phone number) remained attached. So they decided to go another way, and just asked their guitar playing friends to join.