vocals were a secondary consideration. "we were players," bonner told "the dayton daily news" in 2003. "we weren't trying to be lead singers." the core members of the band did not originally sing, he explained, but "we got so tired of having singers leave us that we decided we'd just do the singing ourselves. i used to play with my back to the audience in the old days,” he added. "i didn't want to see them because they were distracting. then the first time i turned around and opened my mouth, we had a hit record with "skin tight". that's amazing to me."