Geoff Turner, Mark Haggerty and Dante Ferrando had been playing in bands since their early junior high school days.
Soon after Mark also left and the two reunited with Geoff and Steve Niles and started playing shows around Washington D.C. as Gray Matter.
The band's first album, Food For Thought, was recorded at Inner Ear studio in November 1984 with Minor Threat's Ian Mackaye assisting with production.
Dante went on to play drums for Ignition and Geoff, Steve, and Mark reunited and formed the band Three, with Jeff Nelson from Minor Threat.
Geoff Turner went on to found WGNS recording studios,[2] and Dante Ferrando is the founder and owner of long running D.C. alternative and punk nightclub the Black Cat.