 Two years of constant touring and several disappointing close brushes with a major label recording contract had taken their toll on the band, and True West called it quits in the summer of 1985.Tolman started a successful solo career and the band decided to reform without Tolman shortly after and go on to record and release their third album "Hand Of Fate" the next year.However, in 1987, bassist Kevin Staydohar (who had also been a member of Central Valley pioneers Thin White Rope) died of a heart valve infection.