What if one of Pittsburgh's most prolific and genre-defying musical projects was born the night a college freshman pitched a band name to his ninth-grade brother — who had just come home from teenage shenanigans on a neighborhood golf course? That's the Chalk Dinosaur origin story, and it's every bit as wonderfully strange as the 28 albums, two completely different live formats, and one famously autographed pair of tighty-whities that followed.

In this episode, Schecky breaks down how brothers John and Nick O'Hallaron built a shape-shifting musical entity that can appear as a live electronic duo one night and a full psychedelic jam ensemble the next — spanning indie rock, surf rock, funk, electronic dance music, and cinematic ambient music across nearly two decades of nonstop recording. We dig into why Pillars of Creati ...