Along with Falkner, also in The Grays was a soon-to-be hot young producer, Jon Brion (Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, Rufus Wainwright). When my woman and I went to see Jill Sobule at Largo, she didn't have a band, but Jon got up on stage and played a coupla songs with her.
If you guys are into checking out obscure Pop, the two guys in The Rembrandts were formerly in a band called Great Buildings (one album on Columbia, which flopped. I saw them live once, and wasn't too impressed. They had just signed their deal papers that day, and may have been drinking ;-) .