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In early 1998, the remaining members of the recently departed Las Vegas band, Tomorrow's Gone, decided to get together one last time to record a few "new" songs for a planned TG discography CD on Element Records. Long time TG members Jeff Dean and Shay Mehrdad recruited former TG bassist Mike "Marlboro" Rosati and Ryan Butler (Far From It) for a studio band that eventually put four songs to tape. Shay then sent a rough demo mix of the songs to TG vocalist, Lance Wells, who was living in Redondo Beach, CA at the time. Upon receiving the tape, Lance immediately began writing lyrics for the songs, and during the process the idea to do a whole new band was born. The four "new" TG songs sounded fresh and vital, and Lance was soon on the horn with Shay to discuss the possibilties of playing live again. Mike and Ryan jumped on board without hesitation, but Jeff was unfortunately on his way out of the revolving door known as Las Vegas to the windy city of Chicago where he would go on to play in many bands such as The Story So Far, The Bomb, and Four Star Alarm. Thus, Tomorrow's Gone became Faded Grey, as there is no TG without the great bearded lady. After commuting to LV from CA for the first two live shows, Lance soon packed his bags and said goodbye to sunny southern California and returned to the blow dryer heat of the southern Nevada desert. Since the recording for the TG discography was scrapped when Jeff took three of the four songs with him to Chicago, a new FG demo was in