Band Changes and Re-release
Grisham and Barnes both quit T.S.O.L. in late 1983. Grisham cited increased violence and police presence at shows, as well as audiences looking to him for instruction, as factors in his departure. He renounced hardcore to continue in the musical direction of Beneath the Shadows, playing with the keyboard-driven Cathedral of Tears and then with Barnes in Tender Fury. Keuhn also did not stay with T.S.O.L. past Beneath the Shadows, going on to other musical credits including playing with Bob Dylan. Guitarist Ron Emory and bassist Mike Roche continued on as T.S.O.L., bringing in singer Joe Wood and drummer Mitch Dean. Over the course of four more studio albums, the new T.S.O.L. lineup would take the band's style even further from punk rock, moving first in a gothic rock direction, then into hard rock and glam rock before dissolving in 1990.
The original T.S.O.L. lineup of Grisham, Emory, Roche, and Barnes reunited in 1991 and won back legal rights to the band's name in 1999. They signed to Nitro Records, who re-released Beneath the Shadows. Though Barnes died in 2000, the band continued on with other drummers and released two studio albums on Nitro, with Keuhn returning for 2003's Divided We Stand. Of the ten songs from Beneath the Shadows, only "Wash Away" and the title track were included on releases by the reunited lineup: A live recording of "Wash Away" appears on Live '91 (1991), and a re-recorded version appears on Who's Screwin' Who? (2005). Live recordings of "Beneath the Shadows" and "Wash Away" are also included on Live from Long Beach (2008). Alkaline Trio covered "Wash Away" for the soundtrack of the 2005 video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
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