It was rough for everybody when 004 broke up -- I maintained my friendships as well as I could after their dispersal. I made some more drawings for Wanda Day, who joined up with Grazzi for awhile. (My images of Lisa with Shot In The Dark, were fun as well.)
I kept up with Phil Miller for a number of years -- he continued to play in some interesting bands. Liz Draper was (and is) one of the finest singers Salt Lake ever produced, and he often accompanied her. He was in the proto-Grunge group Boxcar Kids, and backed an amazing amalgamation of female talent called the Sha' Girls -- three incredible Soul and Jazz singers with an edgy sense of humor. His friend (and mine) Dale Carlson left Salt Lake City for San Francisco, and greener musical pastures in the mid-80's.
I made Doug some graphics when he came back to town from California to perform with his Temple of Rhythm band at The Zephyr Club. Elaine Matsui continued to be a wonderful friend. Jimmy Hamamoto was my musical mentor at KRCL FM when I volunteered there. Scott Simon took his engineering skills to KUED TV and ran sound for Irie Heights and other groups. He made soundtracks for movies, and continues to create original music with his wonderful wife Diana in Curious Birds.
Wanda was in and out of town, and her collaboration with Al Grazzi didn't last -- However, I was standing nearby while Grazzi played for several thousand people outdoors, kitty-corner from the Mormon Temple, at a Punk-Rock protest called Rock Against Reagan. All of those common U.S. citizens came out to bear witness that the so-called Great Communicator was a fraud during his offical visit to Salt Lake City.
The last time I saw Wanda Day was on a business trip to San Francisco in 1995. (I also saw Elaine and her husband too.) Wanda co-founded a band there called Four Non-Blondes. What should have been a tale of talent triumphing over long odds had turned into a sad story of infighting and collapse in the wake of an album which sold over 4 million copies. It was still sweet seeing her again, and I gave Wanda my most inspired drawing of herself from ten years before. "I look so young! she almost sobbed. "We were young!" I replied, even though I'm a decade older than she was.Teri Mitchell saw it later that week, and reportedly tried to steal it. "She was drunk," wrote Wanda, "I had to kick her ass!" I am intentionally skipping the nature of her problems, but Wanda passed away in 1997 after a drug overdose. Scott Simons later told me that 004 gathered and played one more time in her memory, alongside Four Non-Blondes' guitarist Shaunna Hall.