Signed to a record deal by Atlantic Records without a demo tape and simply from a live performance was 80's metal pop rock phenom Fortress, featuring on guitar Eric Turner who had also been in Charlie’s first group The Tropics, and Donnie Vosburgh, an amazing double bass drummer with Jim West on vocals, one of Ambrosia's background singers. Charlie played bass and wrote some of the music on their debut album for Atlantic Records "Hands in the Till," produced by Freddie Piro of Ambrosia fame. One