One evening in summer 2012, Wes Steed recorded Randy McKean skronking away in a small locked room in Steed’s house in Sacramento. Later that same night, in a seemingly-related event, McKean’s car caught on fire as he drove it back up the hill to his native Grass Valley. McKean and his instruments made it out alive, as did the audio document Randy McKean’s Wild Horsey Ride, wherein Mr. Steed roundly thrashed and manipulated McKean’s sounds appropriate to the occasion.