Young agrees to leave band

At the conclusion of a 1993 tour of Australia, Japan, and Europe, the group held a meeting in a hotel room in Copenhagen . Malkmus, Kannberg, and Ibold remained silent while Nastanovich, Young’s best friend at the time, argued with Young. Young agreed to leave the band. He was replaced by Steve West , who had been a fellow museum security guard at the Whitney Museum of American Art along with Malkmus and David Berman . West’s debut performance was in 1993 at a Drag City festival in Chicago. Also that year, the band contributed to the AIDS-Benefit Album No Alternative produced by the Red Hot Organization with their song “Unseen Power of the Picket Fence”.