That night Epic Records offers the young group a deal. Frank Zappa offers a deal for Bizarre Records, only a little too late. Epic Records insist that the Grim Reapers change their name. They become Fuse. Robin and Bun E. jam together for 9 months in a band called Phrenz.
Fuse breaks up.
Rick returns to London and befriends Todd Rundgren, who divulges the phone numbers of Thom Mooney and Robert Stewkey Antoni of Nazz. Rick and Tom light the Fuse one more time with Mooney and Stewkey in the lineup. Fuse dissolves again and Tom relocates to Germany. Rick switches to bass and forms a band with Bun E., Stewkey and Meyers. 1972 Tom returns from Germany and relocates to Philadelphia with Rick, Bun E. and Stewkey - forming Sick Man of Europe.