The idea was simple: create and market your own record, and even create your own record label, and get national distribution via a major label like London. If its any good, the public will want to hear the music, and the major recording contract will follow.

Cruiser was Don Beauchamp, Richie Henman, Tom Rathie, Wally Rathie and Ed Stevens. Engineered and mixed by Guy Rheaume, the album was recorded at Marko Studio B, in Montreal.

Initially the band toured in the outskirts of the city, then a tour was booked to work the bars of southern Ontario. Meanwhile the single from the record, "Things Gotta Change" hit the number six spot on the radio charts.

In the fall of 1980 the band played the spectrum. Donald Tarleton, of DKD was quoted as saying that Cruiser was the "best independently produced debut LP I've heard in five years... and its listenable and very imaginative."

Epilogue:
Cruiser manager Fu Fangio (Ihor Todoruk) was about to sign an album deal with Capitol Records, but as luck would have it, the band broke up because of internal squabbles. Fu hung up his management career and decided it just wasn't worth it. His own career as an artist was where he was going to place his energies from now on.