Wild Dogs is an American heavy metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed loosely in 1981 by original members Jeff Mark, Danny Kurth, Matt McCourt, and Pete Holmes.
The next session yielded "The Tonight Show", "Life is a Game", "I Need a Love to Call My Own", "Two Wrongs", and the song included on a local FM radio station (KGON) compilation album, Born to Rock.
McCourt saw a one-time news segment on MTV about Shrapnel Records president Mike Varney, who was searching for unsung guitar heroes.
The following week the band played in Seattle, sharing the bill with TKO, Rail, Atom Bomb and Myth (fronted by Geoff Tate before he joined Queensrÿche).
With McCourt's use of spiked baseball bats, blow up dolls and other props, and Castronovo's twirling and stick juggling showmanship, the band earned its wild, bad boy reputation.