The members eventually decided to forget about Wayne and go out on their own, choosing the name Mongrel, a recognition of the fact that all of the members had come from different bands. The lineup was Rick Price (bass), Roger Hill (guitar), Stuart Scott (guitar), Keith Smart (drums), and Charlie Grima (percussion), with keyboard player Robert Brady taking most of the vocals. They went out cold, without a recording contract, and between them had enough recognition from their prior bands to make a lot of noise in the press in England, and were signed to Polydor for one album, which was released the following year with the title Get Your Teeth into This. And they might have lasted, and finished that album as a cohesive, functioning band, had it not been for the intervention of Roy Wood, Price's one-time Move bandmate. According to Price's account, Wood showed up at a gig where Mongrel, still working out their sound and their album, were supporting Heads Hands Feet (featuring Albert Lee and Chas Hodges), and, after the show, simply hired them away from being Mongrel. He essentially hired them to give up the band -- he was putting together a new group, and wanted Mongrel to be it, and all but Brady and Scott agreed. The keyboardist and guitarist declined to join Wood, and kept some semblance of a group going long enough to complete the album, but Smart, Grima, Hill, and Price all went over to Wood, and all but Hill became members of Wizzard, as he was calling his band. Mongrel were gone before their only album was even released, and even Brady eventually joined Wood's band. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi