LIGHTNING

BIOGRAPHY:

Band formed in November 1981 by 11 year old Eddie McKenzie (vocals / guitar, ex-Death), recruiting school friends Brian Muir (drums), Craig Struthers (guitar) & George Tomashevski (guitar). No one in the band could play, and they were never actually in the same room at the same time, so McKenzie got rid of Struthers and Tomashevski, and replaced them with Mark Anderson (guitar) & Alan Burt (guitar) at the end of 1981. This line-up didn't actually do anything for over a year, and saw Muir being replaced by Gordon Robertson (drums). In June 1983 Robertson switched to keyboards, and Burt & Anderson were thrown out the band. Robertson & McKenzie then began writing songs and rehearsing, changing their name to Venture 2 later that year.