The GREAT brain consisted of Michael Conroy (bass/guitar), Daniel Kiely (drums), Charan Ranganath (guitars), Brent Ritzel (guitars/bass). The Chicago-based quartet got their start in 1994 when Ranganath, then a graduate student at Northwestern, responded to a flyer put together by Ritzel, who published the influential Chicago music 'zine Tail Spins. The two developed a style of songwriting initially influenced heavily by Archers of Loaf, Polvo, Pixies Read more on Last.fm