Eva left the band after a short while and was replaced by drummer

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Eva left the band after a short while and was replaced by drummer Mark Edwards. Morrison and Dunigan would soon exit as well and were replaced by bassist Rik Fox who was recruited after he had placed an ad in Music Connection magazine’s classifieds, and 19-year-old Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen , who arrived in February 1983. The classic Steeler lineup was now complete but musical differences quickly arose between Malmsteen and the rest of the band. According to Fox, “At first, it wasn’t working because Yngwie saw fit to insult Ron to his face by requesting to make the songs a little less simple and a little more complex to come up to his playing standards. We couldn’t believe what we were hearing from this “new” guy! We kept auditioning other guitarists right in front of him because we all lived together in a piss-poor environment of several gutted-out, roach-infested storefronts, laughingly dubbed ‘The Steeler Mansion’. Eventually, Yngwie came around and said, “Okay, I’ll play the game your way.”