to get a full understanding of bottom bracket you must travel to the new mexican high desert of the mid '90s where drummer, jb sutherland, and (then) bassist, mike dillon, first joined forces. although the jazz trio led by jb's father was a rather unlikely seed project for bottom bracket, it still infused the musical relationship between mike and jb that has lasted to this day.
in '05, shortly after jb moved out to the east coast and the experi-metal project, chamisa mesa, of which mike was a part disbanded, bottom bracket was formed as an experimental/improvisational guitar and drums duo. in this form bottom bracket played sporadically, their shows being marked for their audience participation and lingering sense of confusion.
due to random circumstances mike and shaun crossed paths in hopes of starting a new project, but after a few months of searching for a drummer it became clear that the best thing to do was to bring shaun in as the bassist for bottom bracket. with this new configuration bottom bracket is now fully formed (like voltron) and will destroy anything that stands in it's way.
oh yeah- mike is totally into bikes.