Franz

"We saw one pupil at the window - it looked like he was getting ready to jump out... but then he went back inside," Franz said.

The couple later saw the students had "got out of the school on the ground floor, from the other side" where they "gathered on the street", Franz said.

Her husband Franz called the police.

Even so, the proud Charm City quintet — Yates on vocals along with guitarists Pat McCrory and Meg Mills, bassist Franz Lyons and drummer Daniel Fang — did come to L.A. to record its new follow-up LP, “Never Enough,” setting up a studio in a rented mansion in Laurel Canyon where the band camped out for more than a month.

This band was literally: “Let’s do one on the side where I’m singing and you should get on guitar. Franz, you’ve never played bass, but you should play bass in this one.”