Although, never popular on American radio, their live concerts began to draw large crowds of enthusiastic Alpine sheep herders. Japanese Gender Bending in the 80s Boy George and David Bowie had pushed the bounds of gender definitions. All of the members of the band came back together again. This time, they emerged as a Japanese Geisha band. Meanwhile, the Village People were the number one group in America.
All bands go through cycles.
Up until then, the Avengers had known only the good times. Two decades of notoriety in the music scene had been a really great ride. But, the nineties were the Avengers' dark years. Great bands steal the copywrite. Disgraced by their utter failure, faced with artistic desperation and malnutrition, the band adopted a new and darker persona that seemed to taint their public image for the next decade.