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As Allan recalls, "That was a situation brought about by Edward Van Halen, who really was responsible for me being signed to Warner Bros. He got Ted Templeman to hear the band and sign us up. But I think most of it was just because they wanted to keep Eddie happy. And when they finally signed us, they wanted me to do something that I didn’t want to. Then, they were really lame about it in the end. See, I kind of put my life on the line by sneaking '''Paul''' '''Williams''' on a couple of tracks to sing. They didn’t want '''Paul''' '''Williams''' on any of the record. They didn’t like him, they wanted me to use somebody else. But I snuck '''Paul''' on two tracks without them knowing it. And then, right before the album came out, they spotted it and were going to pull the album. It was like, ‘You’ve done this… you’ve been a naughty boy.’ I mean, it’s nothing to Warner Bros. to shelve a record like that. But they finally put it out, then dropped us. That was it.

"I got to the point," he recalled, "where I couldn’t make a living in music, and I was on the verge of just getting a job so we could survive. That’s normal; it happens to millions of people, and I didn’t mind at all. But when I kept seeing my name in American music magazines I thought, ‘well, maybe we could do a few gigs over there.’ '''Paul''' '''Williams''', who was the vocalist in our original band, lived here in Southern California and said he thought we could line up some work.