During 1978, both Turner and Mike Saunders played with rock critic Richard Meltzer in the Los Angeles punk band VOM , which issued a posthumous five-song EP , Live at Surf City , on White Noise Records in early summer 1978.
Bassist Homer had played in 1977 Masque -era band Jesus Prick, and drummer Vockeroth was a veteran of the Pasadena “backyard kegger party” cover band circuit (which also spawned Van Halen ).
Mike Saunders briefly played in an early backing lineup for 1950s rockabilly cult artist Ray Campi during 1975, before moving back to Arkansas for two years (pursuant to a second college degree).
In 1969 the Saunders/Blayk siblings cut a 14-song high school garage rock album, I’m a Roadrunner Motherfucka , in their hometown of Little Rock , under a twice-used local band name, the Rockin’ Blewz. The album went unissued until the late 1990s.