Roughhouse finished their tour and returned home to Philadelphia in January 1989 with an uncertain future in front of them. Advance orders for the album hadn’t been strong due to most retailer’s failure to connect Teeze and Roughhouse as the same band. This impacted the marketing and promotion departments at Columbia who were now receiving mixed signals from Champion regarding the firm’s long term commitment level to the project.

Even though the "Tonight" track did manage to make a number of key radio station playlists around the country, it was quickly dropped when the group wasn’t able to land concert dates to support local interest. And in retrospect, the song probably wasn’t the best choice as the lead single (strangely enough, "Don’t Go Away" was probably the original choice and appears as the album’s first track).

MTV had added the video to its hugely influential "Headbangers Ball" show, but claimed that fans weren’t calling in as expected and dropped it prior to the start of the new year. The William Morris agency also dropped the ball and was never able to land a supporting tour slot for the group. The only good thing happening at this point was that Roughhouse was still appearing in most of the major metal press around the world (thanks entirely to the brilliant work of Annette Minolfo’s Hot Shot Public Relations firm) and east coast concert dates were still routinely selling out.

This was the current state of affairs when the group was summoned to New York for a critical meeting with Champion’s Randy Hoffman and Columbia executives. It proved to be a very short meeting with the band returning home without a label or manager.

Luis, Gregg, Dave, Mike and Rex re-grouped in the summer of 1989 and set out to find a new label and manager (which would prove to be difficult now that most manager’s were looking for Seattle-based bands and weren’t ashamed to say so). They also were able to put together several new songs. Session time was booked at Galaxy Studios in New Jersey and resulted in a six song master featuring songs such as "Play Dirty", "Drive Me Mad", "Somewhere Girl" and "Action Speaks".

Once again, tension was high between the group’s members. There were disagreements over writing and recording (some members wanted to bring in additional musicians to the sessions, others didn’t). This all boiled over soon after the completion of the master. Rex announced he was leaving. And if that wasn’t enough of a blow, Gregg finally threw in the towel after a ten year battle to put Teeze/Roughhouse on top. He broke the news that he was leaving too. The final show for this lineup would be at the Airport Music Hall in Allentown, PA. Surviving video of that show clearly depicts a drunken Dave Weakley staggering around the stage and the rest of the group struggling to keep it together. At that time, Weakley was the only member in the know that Rex would be leaving.

Luis, Dave and Mike made the decision to remain together and the call went out for two new guitar players in February 1990. Two new members were chosen from hundreds of demo tapes. One of those was a guy with firey-red hair named Rob Levy who had some serious blues chops. The reconstituted Roughhouse spent the rest of the year getting familiar with each other and writing new material. A new management team was finally secured, money was fronted for new recording sessions and the new band entered Philadelphia’s famed KayGem Studios (home of Cinderella) and Victory Studios in early 1991.

Former Teeze guitarist Brian Stover produced the sessions that gave the band new songs such as "These Blues", "Brass Bed Dance" and "Tears Of Joy". The resulting demo was shopped by the new management team and showcases were held for Atlantic, MCA and Geffen, but Roughhouse was now falling victim to a changing musical landscape. MTV was dropping 80s-styled bands left and right, local clubs were chasing out "original" bands in favor of less risky cover acts and the major labels were openly hostile to anything that wasn’t from Seattle.

The boys finally decided to call it quits in October of 1991.

A number of successful mini-reunions with Luis, Gregg, Dave, Mike and Rex took place in 1992 and 1993 – putting an end to the career of what many still consider as the finest theatrical hard rock act ever to come out of Philadelphia.