Back in 1983, Barry White (aka Barrence Whitfield) and Peter Greenberg were working at Nuggets, a used record store in Kenmore Square in Boston. Greenberg, who had previously played guitar in DMZ and The Customs, had recently quit his job playing guitar with Lyres and had begun to form an instrumental rock & roll band with ex-Lyres Phil Lenker on bass, Howie Ferguson (and Real Kids too) on drums, and another Nuggets employee, Steve LaGrega, on sax. One day Barry White began singing at the record store and… Barrence Whitfield and the Savages were born.