"I’d go see Max Roach,” he recalls, “or some other great jazz drummer, and they’d have these kits that they pulled out of the trunk of their cars, three-piece or four-pieces, and they were doing things that I couldn’t imagine.

[7] In 1985, D. Boon died in a van accident following the release of their final full-length album, 3-Way Tie (For Last),[8] at which point Minutemen disbanded.

The band dissolved in 1994 citing creative stagnation, and reformed in 2012 for an appearance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and a short tour.

In addition, he occasionally performs with improvisational group Unknown Instructors with Watt and members of Saccharine Trust and Pere Ubu.

In October 2005, they returned to the studio to record their second album, this time with Pere Ubu's David Thomas as an added participant.

[14] Hurley explained in the 2005 Minutemen documentary We Jam Econo that since his limbs were all busy when he played drums, he grew "The Unit" so that his head movements were more noticeable on stage.