 In 1999, shortly after their forming, Matt McCalvin decided to switch to second guitar, and Chris Ware was brought in on bass.The band played its first official show in 1999 under the name Blame Game (they had performed several times before this under different names) at the "Prison Issues Fest", which was organized by Chris Ware at the Under the Couch venue on the Georgia Tech campus.Blame Game then recorded their self-titled demo (recorded on ADAT by Alex Lambert) and it was released on cassette in a limited run of 100 copies.