Baird had been playing with the Woodpeckers in North Carolina.

The press response to the EP was positive and prompted the band to regroup in the United States.

DeLay later performed with the Tony Sarno Band and the Hell Hounds around the Atlanta music circuit, before dying of cancer in 1993.Īlthough the band felt they were not making any progress on their musical path and had disbanded, their English manager, Kevin Jennings, took the demo to a small Yorkshire record label, Making Waves, who liked the material and released the demo as the Keep the Faith EP in 1985. However, soon after the demo was recorded, the band broke up in the summer of 1984. Jeff Glixman, who had produced, mixed and remastered artists such as Paul Stanley, Kansas, Gary Moore, Yngwie Malmsteen and Black Sabbath, was enlisted for production. During this time, the band changed their name to Georgia Satellites and played every Monday at Hedgen's, a beer-stained bar in the otherwise tony Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead. With a new bassist, Dave Hewitt, and a new drummer, Randy DeLay, they recorded a six-track demo at Axis Studios in Atlanta. After performing in local Southern bars, the band's line-up changed.

In 1980, Dan Baird (formerly guitarist for the Atlanta band the Nasty Bucks), along with lead guitarist Rick Richards, bassist Keith Christopher (formerly of The Brains), and drummer David Michaelson formed a band named Keith and the Satellites in Atlanta, Georgia.

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