[3] During their stint together playing in Little Tin Frog, Whitehurst and guitarist Judah Nagler began secretly writing somber, serious songs.

Some time after the split of Little Tin Frog, The Secret Band reshaped itself and took on the name of Nagler's electronica-influenced solo project, The Velvet Teen.

In addition to drumming for The Velvet Teen, he had a successful solo career as Logan Whitehurst and the Junior Science Club.

[6] In 1997, Whitehurst began uploading songs he had created on a four-track to Mp3.com, which served not only as a storage space, but an advertising and publishing firm.

Whitehurst played not only the drums in his solo work, but also keyboards, guitar, accordion, concertina, and piano.

The album featured guest appearances by members of The Velvet Teen, Death Cab for Cutie, Pedro the Lion, and many other bands.

Whitehurst was never able to tour nationally in support of the album due to his involvement with the Velvet Teen and, later, his illness.

[8][9] In 2004, Whitehurst completed all of the score and incidental music for Replica, an independent film by Raymond Daigle that illustrates the trials, tribulations and mayhem of working in a copy shop.

In 2006, after his cancer had been declared in remission, Whitehurst took suggestions for an enormous number of short-subject songs from his friends and fans to get himself back into musical shape.

Shortly after designing the album art and layout for the Very Tiny Songs Project, Whitehurst's brain cancer returned.

He had a ridiculously oversized ego and was constantly claiming that he did every cool thing in history and says Logan took all of Vanilla's work and said it was his own.