The Shack was a tiny backroom off Washington’s parents’ house in Inglewood and it’s the place where, Mosley says, the band learned to feed off each other and explore music outside the realm of a strict curriculum.

“We would go back there all the time and just work on music, play fast and loud, try new tunes, new chord stuff, and it was really a breeding ground for a lot of formative playing and experimenting with what we thought was the type of expression we wanted to see,” he says. “We didn’t know what we were doing so we were just back there.”

The result is a musical connection that is both learned and natural, one that’s based in theory but also a growing desire to explore beyond what you studied in school.

“You spend 25 years making music with someone, you know what they are up to,” he says.