Why did Unwound break up?
 

Any particular/official reason?

to annoy their fans

That's a good reason, but I doubt they managed to sell it as an "official reason".

they were sick of each other?

That's an option (the most probable). But neither wikipedia or allmusic or any other site I found googlin' says anything...and gossiping about beef going on between bandmates is one of the mainstands in bands' biographies :p .

you can always try to get in touch with them, or with kill rock stars.

I remember hearing back whent he band broke-up that I think Vern Rumsey had a family and a kid and moved out of Olympia also it was rumored that Sarah Lund and Vern were completely annoyed w/ Justin Trosper because he became such a drunk and it affected them on writing material and performing.

Too bad they broke up, they were criminally underrated.

They broke up to break our hearts.

because they can.

Because they got tired of playing the same bits over and over again?

they broke up

No one has yet been able to tell me a good reason why.

odd.

I fucking love Unwound.

Because the band unwound.

i don't know, it's good that at least they broke up with a very good double album that showed they could do more than what they had already showcased.

i hope they never reunite.

I was pretty good friends with Justin and Vern at the time (still consider them that, but can't really claim to be in touch, a little with Vern, but not really much) and worked at the same club Thekla (Vern was a bartender, Justin and I were both djs). So I guess I sort of know.

The "official" reason was that Vern's wife didn't want him to go on tour anymore and wanted him to spend more time with her and their daughter. Given that they divorced not too far after that, and the band stayed apart, I don't think it was really the reason.

The stuff about Justin being too big of a drunk is not bloodly likely. Vern could always drink him under the table, and they are both so fucntional when they're wasted that I don't think it could have hurt the band much at that point. I do think they were pretty sick of each other after all of that touring though, and I think they were more sick of touring period.

Justin I think was pretty tired of being in a band that everybody loves so much. He's a lot of fun in person, but he's really not into being a star at all and the introvert thing was never an act with him. Given that he has hardly made any music publicly at all since then, while Vern has wound up playing in the Fitz of Depression, it's pretty clear which of them was really more tired of it all.

They're both living in Oly again, and so is Brandt. Sarah's in Portland. It wouldn't surprise me if they did reunite at some point, but it also wouldn't surprise me if they didn't. They left with an album that the Wire compared to Zen Arcade and Double Nickles on the dime, I kind of think they wanted to stop at that high point. But those guys are way full of surprises.

Talk of strife between them is kind of silly because they never talked shit about each other or argued in public. That doesn't mean they didn't get tired of being two inches from each other for months at a time, but Vern spoke very publicly in Oly about Sarah and Justin being two of his best friends when he quit.

They broke up because they could never be as good as Sonic Youth. Actually that is why every band breaks up. The bands that don't break up are just a bunch of dumbshits like the rolling stones who don't know that they'll never make an album better than Sonic Youth.

Cue GMKU.

:eek:

thanks to all of you, I feel complete now :).

uh-oh.

I envy you dead-air, I'd love to meet them once.

That was a complete typo. I meant to say "dumbshits like the Rolling Stones" not "dumbshits like SY." That is why I made the GMKU comment.

i miss unwound.

Since this thread got bumped (I kinda miss them too, especially coz I've never seen them live) I'll add a request:
beside youtube vids, does anyone have decent unwound videos to share?

I had one awhile back of them opening for someone...I think during their "Challenge" touring. It unfortunately got lost when I built a new computer and swapped out HDDs.

unwound broke up to break my heart

I listened to the entire leaves turn inside you on a road trip back from el paso a couple opf weeks ago.

wow, fucking wow I love that thing

leaves turn inside you and Muddy waters I'M READY back to back, perfect for texas desert landscape

No, you wrote it right the first time. I edited in my quote it for a chuckle.

My own, apparently.

Wow, what a neat post.

Many years ago I played a gig with my band in Dresden supporting Unwound. They were really kind. But the guitar amp blowed up, so Justin started to scream laying on the floor, while the rest tried to play regular songs. That was really weird. But astonishingly they did not enjoyed the gig, maybe because there were so few people at the concert. Or because the support band was so bad.

http://stereogum.com/1201722/turntab...-lund-unwound/

to answer the question in sara lund's words.

cant believe I missed this thread back in the day. Thank you for that post Dead-Air. :)