After the breakup of GREYAREA, (which wasn't really a breakup) we just needed to get away to do some other things. Steve O'brien started up a website called "music4autobahns" that was very successfull, Jason went to work (finally) and I started another band with a specific goal. The goal was to build a band that was true to the punk rock purpose, and not a sneering, tattood version of the backstreet boys which seemed to be the way things were going. Dying to get back to songwriting and guitar playing, I needed a rougher, dirtier voice to take over, so I reunited with singer Marc Adams (IN YOUR FACE, JOHN HENRY) for a third time and recruited him for the vocals. The drummers spot on the lineup went to Vinny Value (GREY AREA, NO REDEEMING SOCIAL VALUE, WARZONE). On bass we recruited Al, a guy that Marc was working with on another project. He had all this crazy hair which was an eggregious insult to Vinny's "bandmember maximum hair length requirements".

Soon after the band members were settled, we went in to record the first album "Whole Life Crisis" with my long time friend/producer/engineer Noah Evans for Chunksaah Records. After the recording of the album, I busted up my knee when I twisted it carrying a rectifier cabinet down the stairs. We were playing with the Bouncing Souls at the Birch Hill in New Jersey. Although Im sure that years of falling of skateboards didn't help, the injury on that night caused me to have 80% of the cartilage removed from my knee.

Needless to say, this put the band out of business for a while (not before we finished the Souls dates, of course). After the physical therapy, when I was able to get back to business, Vinny quit. Damn. So right after the release of our first album, we couldn't get out and play any shows.

Alas... When it rains it pours.

After a while of trying out other drummers, we got the offer to play a show at the Trocadero in philadelphia, with - guess who - the Bouncing Souls again. Not ready to turn down the gig, I decided to ask Jason (GREY AREA, WARZONE) to fill in on the guitar and I'll move over to the drums for the first time since Token Entry. After that date, we knew that we turned a corner and that things were going to be different from that point on. The idea of looking for another drummer and going back to guitar was out the window, Jason was staying whether he liked it or not, and a lot of music was written soon after.

The bad had a new direction. To blend the Hard Edge Black Flag influence that was so prominent on "Whole Life Crisis" with the more melodic sound that everyone had grown to love, and quite frankly come to expect from Grey Area members. We did a bunch of shows and wrote a lot of music in this lineup for about a year before we realized that we had an albums worth of new material ready to record. Again, we called Noah Evans and got to work on the new album "Bridges Down". Severly limited by our shit-on-the-shoestring budget, we went by the cheapest studios we could find, peoples bedrooms, basements, and recorded. After the most tumultuous reocrding in the history of the world, the album went to Alan Douches to be mastered (where things always come out good!) and was completed.