John Ratts – John Ratts began writing and recording in Mattoon, Il, where he toured with the band "Wayfarer" and wrote and recorded the songs from their "Long way to Go" album, which received the pairs' earliest airplay on Southern Illinois University college radio. After relocating to Washington DC, Ratts and Kern joined forces in the shortlived band "480 Volts", before the formation of "Euphoria". John continued to write and record, as well as to perform acoustically, including songs which later found their way onto the VWR album: "Buses, Trains & Planes", and "Versailles." In addition, Kern and Ratts continued to collaborate as songwriters, and John contributed to songs on the Euphoria-grin" CD (She's Alright) as well as on the "Stretching Regular" CD ("Stay Away from My Heart").

Eric Kern – Kern first perfomed with the band “The Facades” in Paris beforming returning to Illinois where he and Ratts formed the indie rock band “Wayfarer”. Wayfarer had a minor local college radio hit with “Stay away from my Heart” (covered on the Stretching Regular CD), before Kern relocated and joined the short-lived “480 Volts” a band that was soon to merge with Purol’s “UnExcused” to form Euphoria in 1993. Kern wrote or co-wrote many of Euphoria’s singles including “Dixie Pig BBQ”, “Another Lonely Night”, “Debris”, and “About The Rain”. Euphoria toured extensively including spots in several music conferences, local TV features and radio programs. In the late 90’s Kern formed Cherrysmash with Heselius and Dan Aylestock, and the band recorded the critically acclaimed EP “Another Night In Normalville”, followed by the WAMMIE nominated release “View from the Floor”. Songs from this CD were featured on a number of compilation CD releases including the Kern penned “Normalville”, “ Silhouette” and “In a Rut”. “In a Rut” was also featured as part of a full length high adventure kayaking movie produced by TEVA. In 2001 Cherrysmash returned to the studio and recorded several additional singles including Kern’s “POS Life” which received a WAMMIE nomination for alternative rock song of the year. Between 1997 and 2004, in addition to their varied live and studio efforts noted above, Kern and David Purol quietly put together the songs and tracks for the new band and album “Stretching Regular”, again working with esteemed producer Don Zientara (Minor Threat, Fugazi, Cherrysmash), and included guest performances from a variety of the area’s most talented musicians including Dan Aylestock.

David Purol – Sacramento, CA native Purol performed extensively with a number of Mid-Atlantic bands (including Repulsion For Reptiles, UnExcused) before joining forces with Kern and Shane Heselius in 1993 to form “Euphoria”. Euphoria toured extensively and released their first single “Dixie Pig BBQ/Good Thing” in 1995, and the CD “grin” in 1996. Songs from grin went into regular rotation on over 60 college radio stations all over the east coast in 1997, and were featured on a number of nationally released compilation CD’s including “MUSE”, LMS’ “Rev It Up”, Kathode Ray’s “You are now under our control” and “Oasis Alternative 1997.” In 1999 Purol formed the hard rock trio “Dagren” and recorded a currently unreleased debut CD. Purol also wrote and recorded with “Designer Shoes” a combo which including members of “Soul Purpose”. In 2002 Purol released the sci-fi soundtrack spectacular “Betatron 13”, and in 2004 Purol and Eric Kern joined forces to release the hard hitting modern rock album "Stretching Regular". Purol continues to split his time between recording follow-ups to Stretching Regular, Vegas With Randolph, and Betatron 13, and live performances with a variety of other bands such as “The Fillers”,"Vegas with Randolph", and “The Austins”.

Dan Aylestock – Dan Aylestock's illustrious career in the DC music scene has seen him writing, recording, and performing with many of the areas finest musicians, and few on then scene have not crossed paths with Dan at some point. "Cherrysmash", "Stretching Regular", "Blues Condition", and "Southern Fury" are just a few of the acts Dan has performed and recorded with in the last few years.

Brock Harris – Multi Instrument virtuouso Brock Harris (more to come)......