In the spring of 1980, I was going through some major changes. A car accident in 1979 left me with a slipped disc that laid me up for months, which meant playing the guitar was giving me a major pain, so during my recovery phase I had a lot of time to think about what I wanted to do next. One door closes, another one always opens...I would remain with the band until the fall, but I decided I needed to start working on my songs again, so I signed on at a recording studio to do some office work in exchange for studio time, and started writing. It was the beginning of a whole new phase.
	Goldrush Recording Company became my home away from home for the better part of a year, and I practically lived in the basement of the old Vancouver Film Exchange Building in Kitsilano. There were two other studios housed in the same corridor, Total Recording and Tom Lavin's Blue Wave Studios, so the hallway was hopping night and day with all the new wave, blues, rock, country and punk acts coming and going. It was a really creative period for everyone, and there was always something interesting going on. I recorded my first 45 rpm single at Goldrush with members of a great Vancouver band by the name of 6 Cylinder. It featured two songs: "Back to LA" on the "A" side and "Come On Home" on the "B" side. CFMI was the first station to play it, and it got sent to every station across Canada. It quickly disappeared beneath the airwaves (I really had no clue at that point about this thing called marketing...), but it was my first moment of real audio glory, and I savoured every minute of it!