Top-40 and AOR style rock group formed in 1980 featuring former Foxfire members Steve Harris (guitar), Ray Wood (bass), and Chris Anderson (drums), adding Jay Wise (guitar), Dean Hagen (keyboards), and Eric Anderson (lead vocals). This was a mid-1985 lineup. The group also included Mike Essig (keyboards), Dave Bartlett (guitar), Bob Bartlett (bass ex-Expressway).
Their song “My Way” aired on 98 Rock’s Home Tapes program.
The group performed at Garfield’s (Northeast), Mayflower (Edgewood), Midway (Essex), Feather’s, O’s & Ginny’s (Westminster), Back Streets Café (Towson), Harolds (Dundalk), Sh’nanigan’s (Cockeysville)…
Prior to joining Quickfire the Bartlett’s toured as part of backing band for R&B vocalist Thelma Jones in late 1976, then again in 1977 for a year and a half. Essig and Dave Bartlett reunited in ‘00s as members of Alton Street.
