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Wanting to be satisfied with the result Freakhouse always uses the time necessary to make a new album. It took more than 5 years from the release of their previous album "Beautiful Misery" until their self titled fourth album was released.

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Third release of Greg Kihn Band and fifth since the debut by Greg Kihn. Small Change was also released as a single with Anna Belle Lee as B-side. Kihn spent most of the 1980s touring constantly, opening arena-sized shows for groups such as Journey, the Grateful Dead, and the Rolling Stones.

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For the recording of their third album Jim Matheos and Kevin Moore asked Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson), Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth) and Tim Bowness (No-Man) to participate.

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The last release by Ian Cussick on the RCA Victor label. Like most of his solo releases from first half of the 1980's, it has never officially been re-released.

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In 1985, Kihn broke with Beserkley Records and signed with EMI. Matthew Kaufman continued to produce Kihn's albums. From his first release on EMI America "Lucky" reached a modest # 30 on the Hot 100.

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After releasing two albums as a solo artist Greg Kihn decided to change the setup to a band constellation. This is the second release from Greg Kihn Band.

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OSI is Jim Matheos and Kevin Moore. This their second release includes contributions from Mike Portnoy (ex Dream Theatre, Neal Morse Band, TransAtlantic), Joey Vera (ex Anthrax, Armored Saint, Fates Warning) and Bige Akdeniz.

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Beautiful Misery was the bands first release on Reality. Virgil Donati (Steve Vai) joined the band at this point to record Beautiful Misery. He was with the band until 2004.

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Second solo effort by Ian Cussick and first of four albums to be released on RCA Victor. The album has never been reissued.

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In 1986, Joe Satriani replaced Greg Douglass on lead guitar, Tyler Eng replaced Larry Lynch on drums, and Pat Mosca replaced Gary Phillips on keyboards. This is the lineup that went into the studio with Greg Kihn and Steve Wright to record the album Love And Rock & Roll.

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Compilation covering the first 10 years of Greg Kihn's recording career. This was the commercially most successful years of his career as musician making him the biggest selling artist on Beserkley.

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Freak House was formed in the mid' 90's  by Matt Clark (Guitars, Acoustic & Slide Guitars, Backing Vocals), Robert Ferebee (Lead Vocals), Jay Haygood (Guitar, 12 String Guitar, Backing Vocals), Bobby Sharron (Drums, Percussion) and Scott Thompson (Bass, Backing Vocals) They were quickly signed to a one off record deal with Perris Records. The result was the debut Addicted To The Numb. On all subsequent releases they are known as Freakhouse.

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In 1973 Melody Maker has an advert announcing..."Singer wanted for German Top 40 band..." - Ian Cussick takes part in the auditions and lands the part as the new lead vocalist for the Tornados, which soon transformed to Lake. In 1974 Ian left Lake and after working as session musician in Germany for a couple of years, he released his first solo album on Metronome. The album has never been reissued on cd.

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