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Red Harvest, from Santa Monica, CA was the earliest one who is believed to have given the abstract of Jawbreaker; the name was taken from the title of Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel. The band was made up of high school buddies Blake Schwarzenbach (guitar), Adam Pfahler (drums), and "some guy named Rich" (bass). Their music was later described in a Jawbreaker interview as instrumental gloom rock and all "feedback and leads." In the winter of 1986 at New York University, when all three future members of Jawbreaker were sophomores, Chris Bauermeister (who had earlier played in a band with Richard Baluyat, now of Versus, and Ian James, later of Flower) posted an ad in the cafeteria hopeing to forming a band. Blake and Adam responded, and thats how the first true formation of Jawbreaker occurred. Their first performance occurred when they provided the soundtrack to a rock opera featuring Kembra Pfahler, Adam's sister (now a member of The Voloptuous Horror of Karen B...