 It played its first show as a quartet with Doug Gillard on lead guitar on May 20, 1984 at the Pop Shop, an underground music club located in the basement of the famed Cleveland Agora.Gillard and Petkovic met, by chance, at an area amusement park.The four-piece lineup proceeded to release two singles on St. Valentine Records, a local cooperative label formed to document Cleveland's non-hardcore underground.