Michael Bell (vocals) Bill Wood (vocals: replaced Bell) Andy Ryan (guitar) Doug Ruston (bass) Mark Caporal (drums) Tom Lewis (bass; replaced Ruston) Donald Quan (keyboards; 1988) Ryan and Wood were originally in Toronto band The Oh Nos and after it split, Wood joined Billy Club while Ryan hooked up with Caporal as Eye Eye in 1983 as a duo. After record companies started showing interest in their tunes, Eye Eye added Bell on vocals and Ruston to form a legitimate band. They won the annual Q107 Homegrown contest in 1984 and Wood's band Billy Club became finalists, but both acts were sloppy live so Wood joined Eye Eye to cap the contest. First prize was a record deal, but with the financial difficulties of the label imminant, the group steered clear of any long term commitments. Instead they became finalists in the 1985 CBC 'Rock Wars' and a 3rd place finish (out of 632 bands) in the 1985 'National Rock Express/Much Music Talent Search'. All of this exposure gave the band some clout and were able to convince Terry Brown to record a 6 song demo at Scarborough's Certain Circles Studio. The demo attracted the recording industry and Duke Street signed Eye Eye in late 1985. The release of their debut album, 'Just In Time To Be Late', managed two hit singles "Out On A Limb" and "X-Ray Eyes" despite Duke Street's misplaced marketing strategy. The band toured, charted and had video rotation which became fodder for their 19 year-old female audience. Eye Eye were caught off guard by their sudden rise in popularity so when it came time to come off the road and begin working on the follow-up album, they had no material. It would take 8 months of pre-production to get new tunes happening and producer David Bendeth had to whip the songs into shape because the band was writing material literally minutes before going back into the studio. Internal conflicts led to the departure of Ruston and the introduction of Tom Lewis and fifth member Don Quon on keyboards. The band toured again and experienced some radio action with the singles "Endless Night" and "My Sensation" but the decade was drawing to a close as was poppy techno-pop. Eye Eye split soon after. Andy Ryan became a recording engineer and ran a workshop out his Playroom Studio in Scarborough. He now sells Real Estate with partner Gary Brown (Tenants); Wood started showing up in Wine Cooler commercials on TV; Lewis went on to play with Beyond 7 with Gordon Deppe (Spoons) and Honeymoon Suite among other jobs; and Caporal was the stage director at the Ontario Place Forum while working artist relations for SOCAN before dying tragically in a light plane crash on September 1, 1990 at the Kawartha Soaring Club in Omemee, Ontario. With notes from Rhonda. Singles 1984 Hollywood Girls (independent) 1986 Out On A Limb/Heartbeat (Duke Street) 1986 X-Ray Eyes (Duke Street) 1988 Endless Night/Perfect Day (Duke Street) 1988 My Sensation (Duke Street) Albums 1986 Just In Time To Be Late (Duke Street) 1988 Common Ground (Duke Street) from: http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/E/Eye_Eye.html