All this mystique appears to pay off as DarkWig gets a call from the manager of DickRay, inviting you to join them as an opening act on the East Coast stretch of their latest tour. It seems that a particularly zealous fan of yours dropped off a cassette of your best numbers and the duo really dug what they heard.
Loading yourselves up into an all-black van with tinted windows, all your instruments, costumes, and effects in the back, you join the tour, following DickRay up and down the coast. There are more dates on the booking sheet than you've even played in succession before, in venues ranging from the seediest to the most middling. It isn't caviar and champagne just yet, but you are happy to drive all day and play all night. Whatever it takes.