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band so badly, he came to the audition with a friend's bass he had just started to play. The speed and complex playing he displayed was something none of the members had ever seen before on bass. He landed the gig that day. When the band decided it was time to add a second guitarist, Lovette told his bandmates of his desire to switch to guitar and for the first time he came clean, he was a guitar player pretending to be a bass player all along. His bass playing was surpassed by his guitar skills, the band found its second guitar player, but unfortunately, the search for a bass player was back on. Luckily, the search (for the time being, anyway) ended with Danny Vega. His playing complemented the guitar playing of
Lovette and Sacco and worked with Schmidt's drumming. With Lovette handling most of the song writing duties, Aftermath was about to undergo a musical change.
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Kyriakos "Charlie" Tsiolis, formed in October 1985 when Charlie and his schoolmate Steve Sacco (guitar) got together. This early incarnation with Adam (bass) and Ray Schmidt (drums) issued their first demo called 'Sentenced To Death' in 1986 featuring 'Sentenced to Death', 'Revenge', 'Shotgun'
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over the ownership of the name. Dre reported made a conciliatory offer of some $ 50,000 for rights to use the name but would go ahead and use it regardless. Fortunately for the band, this period of turmoil had built bridges with
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that formed in 1985. They have released three studio albums under two monikers and been involved in several compilation projects. They subsequently changed their name to
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