Mark Breyer and David Winogrond of Skooshny had been in a Chicago-area band called Brevity; when they relocated to Los Angeles, they connected with guitarist/keyboardist Bruce Wagner who answered an ad that they ran in a music magazine.  David Winogrond also did some work outside SS-20 and Skooshny; he was the drummer for one of the earliest L.A. punk rock bands, the Germs, though not the original drummer.