After high school the boys in Still Stanley moved to Nashville to go to school and ended up staying there for five years. Afterwards the moved to Los Angeles to concentrate soley on the band. They garnered a loyal following playing gigs at The Whisky A Go-Go, the Viper Room and the Hard Rock Cafe, and even sold a few songs to movies (one of their tunes can be heard in the Leslie Neilson bomb Comouflage). This era of the band is documented on their CD No Soap Radio. "We had a really good run out there," Pleasant said of L.A.