Yeah, they’d have fit into a playlist on some of the stations I liked back in the mid 1980s. I wonder why they didn’t get more airplay down here.
A few bits of trivia: I saw them, on two successive nights, when they played in Toronto shortly after the first album was released ('85?). They were virtually studio perfect, while playing on the rotating stage at The Forum, at Ontario Place (the area that stood in for the deserted buildings in ST:SNW episode "Ghosts of Illyria"). There was a reason for this. The group wasn't prepared for their overnight success and the tour was organized in days. They had to put together a backup band for the tour and hired on a bunch of well known session musicians, resulting in an almost studio sounding performance.
Back in the early 1980s after I saw them on MTV, I looked around for both of their albums but could not find them here in Virginia. I had to have them special ordered. I picked up some other Zebra albums later.
They did more than appear in videos, they were in The Revolution with Prince for a time and contributed to Purple Rain, IIRC. As for soundtrack work, I have their beautiful soundtrack to the Heroes TV show.
Sorry I was unclear- I was just trying to point out where people could get a visual reference for them! I think their repeated and almost FEATURED slew of appearances in his vids is a sign of how important they were to The Revolution, and thus, Prince’s sound at the time.
