Biography
California's Sense Field first came together in 1990 with vocalist Jonathan Bunch, guitarists Chris Evenson and Rodney Sellars, bassist John Stockberger, and drummer Scott McPherson, rising from the remnants of the earlier group Reason to Believe that had included Evenson, Stockberger, and Bunch. The following year they issued a self-titled EP on their independent Run H2O imprint. Revelation Records took notice of the release and the band's steady road work, leading the label to handle distribution for the 1993 mini-album Premonitions and then put out the full-length debut Killed for Less a year later. National and international touring came next, paving the way for the 1996 album Building. Lineup changes soon followed at the peak of their activity when McPherson departed in 1999 to join Elliott Smith's band, with Rob Pfeiffer taking his place behind the kit. Additional EPs and 7-inch singles surfaced before the decade closed, among them the Part of the Deal EP on Grape OS and a split with Onelinedrawing. Momentum returned in 2001 as the fourth album, Tonight and Forever, arrived on Nettwerk that summer. While supporting the record on the road the next summer, Sellars stepped away temporarily after his daughter suffered severe injuries in a car accident and fell into a coma. The remaining members pressed ahead and recorded a fifth album, Living Outside, which Brad Wood (Liz Phair, Smashing Pumpkins, Sunny Day Real Estate) produced and which surfaced in July 2003 as their final release. After completing the supporting tour, Sense Field disbanded in January 2004 and the musicians turned to other projects, most prominently when Bunch became the new vocalist for Further Seems Forever until that band also dissolved. Eight years later the original members reconvened briefly for a pair of Revelation Records 25th-anniversary performances before resuming their separate paths. On February 1, 2016, Jon Bunch died in Irvine, California, at the age of 45.
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