Robert Vaughn

In 1987, after hearing a demo tape of Robert Vaughn & The Shadows, The 77s’ Michael Roe and Jan Eric Volz traveled from Sacramento – home of Exit Records – to San Diego to see the band perform live. Returning to Sacramento impressed with their sound and talent, Roe and Volz encouraged their label – also home to Charlie Peacock, Vector, and others – to sign the band, making Robert Vaughn & The Shadows the first band outside the Sacramento area to be signed to Exit, which had recently inked a distribution deal with Island Records, U2’s parent label. (As fate would have it, Robert Vaughn & The Shadows was also the last band Exit