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After their previous band Rites of Spring broke up , Edward Janney, Brendan Canty and Guy Picciotto joined up with ex- Embrace, ex- Faith guitarist Michael Hampton to form One Last Wish in the spring of 1986. The band played its first show in August of 1986 and for the next few months played a total of six concerts. Besides a series of benefit shows promoted by the Positive Force political collective, two of One Last Wish's most memorable performances were a concert in Virginia Beach that took place in the heart of a hurricane and a DC concert opening for the Screaming Blue Messiahs, where between the two bands a total of some 5 guitars were destroyed. In November of 1986, the band recorded 12 songs at Inner Ear Studios with Ian Mackaye producing. Soon after completing the mixes, the group summarily disbanded. The resulting tape remained unreleased for 13 years with the sole exception of one song ("Burning in the Undertow") which appeared on the "State of the Union" Dischord compilation. With the release of "1986" the full results of those sessions are now being made available. After the demise of One Last Wish, Michael Hampton went on to form the band Manifesto while Guy, Edward and Brendan went on to reunite with Michael Fellows of Rites of Spring under the name Happy-Go-Licky after which Guy and Brendan went on to join Fugazi.