Well Foxy, it *does* seem that you knew your way around in the scene… 
About Skid Row, never knew them personally, but I do know some where scum bags 🙂 But, unlike Skid Row, when we received originals from other groups, we from ‘The Band’ always mentioned the group who supplied us with the original. I remember the game called "Ring Side", which, at the time, had a new form of copy protection. Quartex were releasing "? gogo" at the time and gave us the original to have a go at it. We finally cracked (and trained) it, and let Quartex know how :D, and thanked them in our intro. Like true gentlemen do 😉
I’m looking forward to your next story about ‘loneliness and bankruptcy’. Well, after two years of hard work in the scene, with ‘The Band’ nearly always being somewhere in the top 10, came the time to think about the future. We all spent huge amounts of money, time & effort for this so called "hobby": hardware, disks, envelopes, stamps (which we re-used, of course), originals, fuel (numerous trips to Paris and London), and so on. I was still at school at the time, and the scene had already "cost" me one year. We had a last meeting somewhere end of December in 1989, and decided to call it quits. In 1987, when we were formed, we never, ever thought or hoped to ever reach the top 3, but we did it! It’s been a hell of a ride, and for those of us who really quit, came "the dark hole". it took me *months* of, let’s call it "rehabilitation", back into the ‘normal’ world.
Suddenly, I was no longer part of the scene, for which I had lived for, for two full years, in order to create "name and fame"… Ah well, it’s been over 18 years now, and thinking about that period fills me with happy thoughts of friendship, success, fun, the occasional "bump in the road", but also, and especially in the end, the constant threat of possibly being caught. We mentioned a PO box address in our intro’s for god’s sake… unthinkable these days…
Anyway, hope to hear from you soon!