Brian Mcmahan. Although Slint barely toured and had only a dozen songs in their repertoire, their legendary status in independent music has made Slint larger than life.
2. ... Others named Brian McMahan. Slint. Brian McMahan is a guitarist from Louisville, Kentucky.

I may have got the band wrong, but Slint's David Pajo was once playing with his new band Papa M on a bill with Mogwai and asked to borrow one of their guitars. Slint was an American rock band consisting of Brian McMahan (guitar and vocals), David Pajo (guitar), Britt Walford (drums and vocals), Todd Brashear (bass on Spiderland), and Ethan Buckler (bass on Tweez). SLINT began in 1986. Slint's breakthrough record was released in April 1999. Jan 1982 – Present 37 years 10 months. And soon after its release the album’s authors – Brian McMahan, Todd Brashear, David Pajo on lead guitar and drummer Britt Walford – went their separate ways, never to record again as Slint. Tickets: $26 plus charges at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife and Ticketweb.ca. The audience watched every chord change with rapt attention, leading taciturn guitarist / vocalist Brian McMahon to comment "Sweet dinner theatre atmosphere" at one point. Slint established its earliest roots when, in 1981, at the ages of eleven and twelve, guitarist Brian McMahan and drummer Britt Walford began playing together in Louisville, KY. The band was formed by Brian McMahan, who is the only constant group member. In 1984, Britt Walford and guitarist David Pajo started collaborating musically at the ages of fourteen and sixteen.
The For Carnation are a slowcore/post-rock band from Louisville, Kentucky who formed in 1994. Growing up as childhood friends in Louisville, Kentucky, Brian McMahan and Britt Walford attended J. Graham Brown School in the early 1980s. “A t some point as a kid, I was just bored of rock,” Slint drummer Britt Walford says, early in Bangs’s film, as a picture of Walford and singer/guitarist Brian McMahan at ages 11 and 12, respectively, flashes onscreen. Constructed around sombre, geologically-paced drums and guitar, and fortified texturally with little more than subdued samples clipped from sports commentaries and TV interviews, Come on Die Young made the Kentucky quartet into a byword for the deconstructive turn occasioned by pre-millenial art rock. Before that, drummer Britt Walford, guitarist David Pajo, guitarist/vocalist Brian McMahan, and original bassist Ethan Buckler had played together in various bands within the tight-knit Louisville Punk scene. Brian and Britt formed their first band – Languid and Flaccid – in middle school, when Britt was just eleven. Beginning in 1986, singer Brian McMahan and drummer Britt Walford played in numerous iterations of what would become Slint… Aug. 29, 8 p.m. | Rickshaw Theatre. Slint was a band that had influence on hundreds of later bands. David Pajo and Brian McMahan talk about the way history has distorted their small-town origins and slowly turned them into unwitting post-rock legends.