Looking for a guitar player they contacted Duck right after Shakin Street broke up who was also in upstate at the time and got together to write some songs. Craig wrote one(She’s Gone) Duck wrote one (Back to Back) which Micky Lee Soule played piano on and they wrote one together (Metal Man) Looking for a singer Duck was friends and had played in bands with Louis Murello (Eric Adams) and suggested him for the vocals. Louis didn’t work out for the band but he did work out for another band coming out of upstate at the same time, Manowar.

Craig knew a singer in the New York area Jeff Fenholt so he went to a friend of his (Geoff Glixman) to rerecord the vocals and remix two of the tracks. As a producer he thought the band should be going more in the direction of She’s Gone and Metal Man more metal than Elf style. In the meantime Gary and Duck were in Illinois doing some studio work with Terry Lutrell (REO Speedwagen and Starcastle). They weren’t a band at this point so were doing different things but liked each other and enjoyed playing together and knew there was certain chemistry between them. When Gary and Duck got back from Illinois they heard the remixes with Jeff doing the vocals and were blown away so they all decided to put more songs together with Jeff on vocals and Geoff Glixman producing that’s when they became Bible Black.

The Band went into rehearsal to write some new material with a set direction and made their first business decision, because of the power and the chemistry of the four of them they decided to share the songwriting credit equally no matter who wrote what, it was a successful decision to make and made the music more powerful as a result.After they had about ten songs Craig talked to Geoff about coming down to his studio in Atlanta to record. He picked four songs to do ( Ain’t no Crime, Down On The World,Fighting The Wind and Back Door) and they came out great so next was to get some management and Geoff recommended Larry Mazer he was pretty green at the time but has become one of the biggest managers in the business. He set up a showcase for the band in New York at S.I.R. Studios but only booked the smallrehearsal room instead of the big soundstage room, the band had a lot of gear and it didn’t even fit in the rehearsal room and Geoff thought it was a bad idea as did the band so they didn’t do the showcase.

They acquired new management at this point, a well respected New York music lawyer Harold Orenstien. So as Harold was shopping the tape they were doing some live shows all told they did about 10 -15 live shows. They decided to go back in the studio to record three more songs a remake (Paint It Black)and two new songs (Fires Of Old and You Got Me Where You Want Me) this time they went in with the legendary Felix Papalardi as the producer. They were starting to unravel about this time with personal problems, financial problems and frustration over no forthcoming contract.

Harold set up a showcase at the Ritz in Manhattan and all the major record companies were there and when the smoke cleared no contract. Jeff decided to leave the band and a few months later Craig too.

Gary and Duck gave it one more try and found a young upstate singer Joey Bellardini (later to be in Anthrax) and a bass player Joe Sopp and went back in the studio and did two songs (Deciever and Midnight Dancer) they decided the magic was gone and called it a day.