The Breakaways

The Breakaways were a short-lived combo that filled the gap between Peter Case and Paul Collins’ use the seminal power pop music group the Nerves and their later on groups the Plimsouls as well as the Defeat. In 1978, the Nerves found an end following the departure of guitarist Jack port Lee, and Case and Collins thought we would keep carefully the momentum heading by forming a fresh music group, the Breakaways. While Lee have been the main songwriter in the Nerves, Case and Collins noticed the Breakaways as an opportunity to display even more of their skills, and they started with some intensive songwriting classes within their rehearsal space, situated in the same substantial cellar as the LA punk mecca/dive the Masque. In the beginning, the Breakaways presented Harlan Hollander on acoustic guitar, Case on bass and vocals, and Collins on drums and vocals, but Hollander opted from the music group after the documenting of its 1st demo, as well as the Breakaways extended to a quartet by employing two new users, Ian Espinoza on business lead acoustic guitar and Danny Biazys on tempo acoustic guitar. This lineup documented some more materials and performed some displays after producing its live debut at L.A.’s legendary Whisky a chance Go, but in a short time the Breakaways once more found out themselves without guitarists, therefore Case and Collins relocated to leading line and appeared for a tempo section to back again them up. The Breakaways installed with bassist Steve Huff and drummer Mike Ruiz, which edition from the music group played more golf club gigs and cut a small number of demos (a few of which feature Brandon Mattheson on drums). Nevertheless, what started as a cooperation between Case and Collins began to fray because they started relocating different directions, and Case still left to create the Plimsouls in past due 1978, while Collins, Huff, and Ruiz became the Defeat by adding guitarist Larry Whitman. The Breakaways’ recordings finally noticed the light of time in ’09 2009 using the discharge of Walking From Like: The Shed Sessions.