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Streets was a band made up of singer Steve Walsh, guitarist Mike Slamer, bassist Billy Greer, and...

Streets was a band made up of singer Steve Walsh, guitarist Mike Slamer, bassist Billy Greer, and drummer Tim Gehrt. Steve Walsh had also been in the band Kansas and Mike Slamer has been in several other bands, including Britain's City Boy. He has also been a session guitarist. For the band Streets, Walsh recruited drummer Tim Gehrt, bassist Billy Greer, and guitarist Mike Slamer. Slamer had been with the British cult act City Boy, and Greer and Gehrt were regional players who had seen success with bands in Tennessee and Atlanta, respectively. Gehrt was actually working with ex-Deep Purple bassist Glenn Hughes when Walsh recruited him for Walsh's first solo effort, Schemer Dreamer. Walsh had noticed him when one of Gehrt's earlier bands had opened for Kansas. The two became friends and eventually spoke of forming a band together. Slamer had never met Walsh until he showed up for the audition. "I decided that I wanted to move to America," says Slamer. "The kind of music that I wanted to make wasn't being played at all in England, so I came here." Streets made its debut performance at Charlie Daniels' annual Volunteer Jam in January, 1983. The debut LP was released later that year on