Carrion attended Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach, California with Descendents drummer Bill Stevenson and singer Milo Aukerman. He played bass guitar in the punk rock bands Con 800 and Anti, with whom he recorded demos. In 1985 he joined the Descendents, replacing original bassist Tony Lombardo, and accompanied the band on their first tour: "I get this weird note on my door, and it\'s like \'Hey, this is Bill. I\'m thinking about doing the Descendents again. Tony can\'t do it, so I want to know if you want to give it a swing.\' So we practiced getting me brought up to speed and then, right as school was ready to stop, Milo jumped in the van and we started doing shows." He later recalled of the experience:\n', 'On the band\'s return to Los Angeles, Carrion lived with them in their rehearsal space, a storefront in Lomita, California. He performed on their 1986 album Enjoy!, for which he co-wrote seven songs. He left the band in the fall of that year: "I just wanted to keep kind of experimenting, and that\'s really it. It was like \'Okay, cool, you\'re taking the ship north, I\'m going south. Roger!\'" He joined the punk rock band Doggy Style, his first collaboration with Brad "Daddy X" Xavier, playing on their 1986 album The Last Laugh. In March 1987 he moved to Washington, D.C. to join Dag Nasty, performing on the albums Wig Out at Denko\'s (1987) and Field Day (1988) and the EPs All Ages Show (1987) and Trouble Is (1988).\n', 'Carrion briefly fronted his own band, Pale, who released one single, "And Shed Her Skin" / "Reunion" (1990), and one EP, Tantrum (1991). He produced Ultrahead\'s 1992 album Cementruck. He then joined the hard rock band For Love Not Lisa, with whom he engineered, produced, and played bass guitar on the album Merge (1993), EP Softhand (1993), and single "Good Intentions" / "Hallowed Be" (1994). He also produced and played guitar on Ultrahead\'s 1994 album Definition: Aggro. In 1995 Carrion joined Daddy X\'s Hermosa Beach, California-based punk rock band Humble Gods, playing guitar on their albums Humble Gods (1995) and No Heroes (1996).\n', '

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