All of the members met and became friends during their high school years at Pasig Catholic College. By early 1992, Andy Intalan, Gilbert Robiso, Jeff Santos, Toz Cruz and Wowie Mendoza started weekend jamming sessions at Jeff's house.
In succeeding sessions, Wowie would bring along another high school buddy, Jhun Mora, while another schoolmate, Marlon, would be visiting these sessions accompanied by his girlfriend, Liz Relleve. Here Jhun and Liz would act as back-up vocalists. The band's first public performances were at friend's parties and town concerts covering songs by bands like Nirvana, Black Sabbath and Juan dela Cruz .
With Toz busy on his collegiate and personal responsibilities, and the band becoming active with local gigs and "battle-of-the-bands", Andy, with the members approval, invited Jhun to be their new lead singer, while Liz being as co-lead and back-up vocals. This was also the time that the band started performing their own compositions that included the melodically-playful "Nail", the somber "The Day My Cat Died", the emotionally-charged duet "Between Edges" and the angst-ridden "Tablado Ka" (You're Betrayed) - which would become their very first radio hit. These four songs would be part of their lo-fi EP, "Shampoo Your Face!", which they also distributed to radio networks and music companies as demos.
As luck would have it, one of their demos were heard by Ed Formoso, an icon in the Philippine Rock Scene, who like what he'd heard and invited the band to be part of his project, "A Dozen Alternatives". Impressed with the band's ability to record a song - "Tablado Ka" - in record time, Ed as Shampoo ni Lola to be part of two more compilation albums, "Christmas on the Rocks" and "Mga Himig Natin - Pinoy Rock Revisited 2", where the band recorded "Namamasko" (Caroling) and "Saranggola ni Pepe" (Pepe's Kite), respectively.
