Editing Slint (section)

===Pre-Slint===
Walford and McMahan met in their [[pre-teen]]s and attended [[the Brown School]], a [[Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky)|Louisville public school]] founded on a pedagogy of self-directed learning.<ref>{{cite web|title=About - J. Graham Brown School|url=http://www.mybrownschool.org/about|website=www.mybrownschool.org|access-date=January 7, 2017|archive-date=January 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102012809/http://www.mybrownschool.org/about|url-status=dead}}</ref> They began performing music together at an early age, forming the Languid and Flaccid with Ned Oldham (later of The Anomoanon) while still in middle school.<ref>{{cite web|last=Johnson|first=Jeff|date=November 30, 2003|title=Something Like An Anomoanon|url=http://www.viceland.com/int/v10n5/htdocs/something.php|access-date=November 20, 2010|website=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]|archive-date=October 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019022004/http://www.vice.com/read/something-v10n5|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=back|url=http://louisvillepunk.awardspace.com/Photos/LanguidFlaccid00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108104435/https://louisvillepunk.awardspace.com/Photos/LanguidFlaccid00.html|archive-date=January 8, 2017|access-date=November 20, 2010|publisher=Louisvillepunk.awardspace.com}}</ref> In their teens Walford and McMahan played together in the seminal Louisville punk band [[Squirrel Bait]]. Walford left the band following their first recording session while McMahan went on to tour and record Squirrel Bait's two albums before the band's dissolution in 1987.<ref>{{cite web|title=Maurice&nbsp;– Louisville Punk/Hardcore History|url=https://history.louisvillehardcore.com/index.php?title=Maurice|access-date=November 20, 2010|publisher=History.louisvillehardcore.com}}</ref>

Pajo and Walford (and, briefly, McMahan) were in the punk/prog-metal band Maurice with future members of Kinghorse. After being influenced by the music of the [[Minutemen (band)|Minutemen]], Pajo and Walford's musical direction became too obtuse for the other members of Maurice, who parted ways. Maurice's later material would form the basis of some of Slint's early compositions.<ref name="Bangs, 2014">{{cite AV media|last=Bangs|first=Lance|title=Breadcrumb Trail|date=2014|publisher=Touch and Go|location=Chicago}}</ref>