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A stint by CRLLL guitarist Paul “Klaus” Ghidossi (notorious around town for performing in a shabby clown suit) lasted only a shambolic gig or two, but in the Spring of ’83 nineteen year old Grant-Lee Phillips (lately of local group Bloody Holly) was recruited on lead guitar, where his “Chet Atkins-plays-Scary Monsters”-influenced sound added an indelible and unique ingredient to the band’s alchemy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhillips describes his encounter with Clark and Foley as pivotal: “…what Jeff and Kelly were doing, you just didn’t see that kind of thing happening in Stockton… so we connected right away over a mutual obsession with the alluring fringes of music, art and film”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn in-studio college radio performance at UC Davis that May captured this final version of the Torn Boys at their most hypnotic and dynamic (as two of this release’s tracks, \u003cem\u003eMystery\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMack the Knife\u003c\/em\u003e perfectly prove).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Fall of ’83 Phillips relocated to Los Angeles, joined soon after by Clark, where the two went on to form Shiva Burlesque. 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