He then co-founded The Coctails, who moved from Kansas City to Chicago after their first album (1989) and went on to release six albums in all by the time they played their last show on New Year's Eve 1995/96.
Members Archer Prewitt, Mark Greenberg, John Upchurch, and Barry Phipps were largely self-taught musicians who experimented with various instruments and played in a manner they described as the Chinese fire drill method, in which they rotated instruments during live sets.
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Mark Greenberg currently performs with Archer Prewitt, Eleventh Dream Day, and Candy Gold, and runs his own music-for-use company called the Mayfair Workshop.