In 1986, Lithuania was already in the midst of a rock boom caused by Mikhail Gorbachev's "perestroika". The first "Rock Marches" were launched. The first TOP-10 selections of songs and bands were launched. Musical bands that had never been officially seen or heard emerged from the "underground". Young and ambitious guys - Arvydas Skernevičius, Jonas Vasilevičius, Viktoras Beriozovas, Sigitas Barkus and Alvydas Kisieliauskas - decided to stay on the sidelines. At that time they were already playing in Vilnius in the Republican Palace of Professionals' Union Culture and had changed their location to the premises of the LSSR Material Technical Supply Committee, where there was a much better "material-technical base" - a great concert hall, the latest and best Czech sound amplification equipment "Metronom - 2".
On a blustery evening of September 9, Šarūnas Mačiulis dropped by the rehearsal room for a visit to visit his scientific friends. The band was looking for a vocalist. Unexpectedly, they were offered to "remember their youth" and try to sing a few of Šaras' songs, which Jonas, Sigis and Arvydas knew very well and which they had played in 1980 in the entertainment programme of the Disco Vivo disco of the Vilnius State Pedagogical Institute (later to become the University of Educational Sciences, then closed down) (the manager Egidijus Butkevičius). The disco was closed down for promoting anti-Soviet culture precisely because of the scandalous performances of the vocal-instrumental group The Carburators. It was only the relative "thaw" towards Western culture after the Moscow Olympics that allowed them to avoid being expelled from the student lists.
The scandal turned into the beginning of a long and fruitful collaboration. Combining the songs of the band and Shar, a decent repertoire of original songs was obtained, suitable for an original concert programme. The band was enthusiastic and rehearsed until midnight. At that time, the band's biggest dream was to be included in the TOP-10 of Lithuanian bands, which was published every week in the Saturday supplement for young people in the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" (now "Lietuvos rytas").
