[3]: 48 He then attended Virginia Commonwealth University, where he majored in art, before moving to New York City and working as a security guard at the Whitney Museum.
[1] West was recruited to join Pavement in 1993, after the band dismissed their original drummer, Gary Young.
While a member of Pavement, West started a solo project, Marble Valley, of which he is the frontman.
[1] In 2010, Marc Hawthorne of SF Weekly described Marble Valley as "...a strange bird, playing around with pop, postpunk, psychedelics, rap, and whatever else it can get its hands on in service of songs that can go from weird to weirder.
"[8] He performed drums and backing vocals on the Silver Jews album Starlite Walker.