"...It was late in august 2003 when we got together for the first jam...It didn't take long to realize that this was the sound we had been looking for and now we had a chance to make something out of it..." describes bands guitarist, KK , the forming of Daryl Haywood Combo. "...Tero and Jake had been playing together for years and they had a clear vision of what kind of sound they were after. Their band, Rod Benders had been around for a while and their style was going towards straight 50's rockabilly. I had been playing in neobilly band Phantom 409 and their style was more on modern side with a harder edge. As a player, I had been getting into fingerpicking in the style of early 50's rockabilly pickers for years, but that kind of playing didn't find much space in their repertoire...actually I was interested in getting together to jam with Tero and Jake also for a reason that they lived quite close to me and I thought it would be good to know local players just for fun...after a couple of rehearsals things started to get more serious and we had to face the fact that we had a group with potential and that group needed a name. Tero suggested a loose translation of his own name 'Daryl Haywood' and then we just added 'Combo' to it and that's how we got a name for the group. As we rehearsed our repertoire, we recorded 6 songs for promotional purpose and those songs became our debut "Crazy Rhythm Rock" which was released in March 04'..."

"In the beginning we had "Dirty Harry" Tuominen in drums but he was playing also in another band that took his time so he had to give up his duties in DHC in May 04'...luckily we found a new drummer in an old friend Tuomas who was also a local guy...."

By the end of 2005, the band had done gigs in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Holland. It was time to start recording material for the first official release. Marc Fenech from Empire records offered DHC a fair deal for a cd release and so the long project for recording a full length cd started. Recording took place in band's rehearsal room, and the equipment used was KK's laptop." I got a 4-track soundcard that worked with my laptop fairly well...and yes, we would have gladly done everything with state of the art vintage-tube-analog-tape-whatever-gadgets but we didn't have that stuff available so we settled for what we could afford " explains KK the choice for recording method. Luckily they knew some good guys who borrowed them good quality microphones ( thanks to Pete Näsman and Pete Salmi) to capture band's raw and energetic sound in all it's glory. KK mixed and produced the material and Pete Salmi from PS-Tonelab did a wonderful job in mastering the cd into a tight, warm-sounding package.
By the end of September, KK had done the cover art for the cd and the material was ready to be sent to Spain for pressing, and finally in November, the cd " You Treat Me Like a No Good!" was released.