Guitarists/vocalists Channing Lewis and Michael Crow met drummer Ned Stewart while attending the private boarding school Woodbury Forest, located in Harrisburg, Virginia [REF].
In the summer of 1994, the group, now renamed Mucho Maas in homage to a character from Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49,[REF] recorded an album of original songs in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.