After TV Neats I was in Stray Divides.This is like 1981/82. Mark Mulcahy was the drummer (replacing our 1st drummer John Robinson after a few gigs). Ray
Neal played guitar and keyboards. I played bass (which I picked up for
this band) and sang, and the guitar player and main singer/songwriter
of the band was Kirk Swan. Kirk had been in a Durham, CT punk band
called The Suburbanites and would go on to co-found Dumptruck (and play
with Steve Wynn/John Wesley Harding etc). Stray Divides was kind of a
post-punk/Echo and the Bunnymen/Joy Division type band with some
Postcard-era Orange Juice thrown in. Anyway I think that was what we
were going for.That band basically fell apart when I moved to NYC in
1982 to attend The School of Visual Arts. Kirk moved to Boston to form
Dumptruck with Seth Tiven. Mark got up from his drumkit and started
writing songs with Ray, at first calling themselves American Legion,
and later on Miracle Legion.