Go To Blazes, a Philadelphia-based band who took their name from their 1988 vinyl record of that title, have mixed country, rockabilly and blues music in three CDs. Even though they're all doing day jobs to keep body and soul together (one of the original members, Chris Horner '85, recently left the band for a full-time teaching job), "It's a real serious thing," according to lead guitarist and vocalist Tom Heyman. "Love, Lust and Trouble," their second record, appeared on Skyranch, a French label, followed in September 1994 by "Anytime . . . Anywhere" on East Side Digital. That record also was picked up by a German label and netted the band "a hell of a deal," said Keith Donnellan--a tour of Switzerland, Germany and Holland last August. Go To Blazes also toured the States in support of "Anytime . . . Anywhere," performing in Chicago, Cleveland, Minneapolis, San Francisco and other cities. "We did well for them. We sold the five thousand records they'd hoped we'd sell," said Donnellan. The band members, who began playing in their teens and shared musical tastes formed on Aerosmith and other '70s groups, played together or were in competing bands at Colby. "There weren't very many of them, and we were in them," Heyman said. "We just were friends." Three of the four were English majors, but the exception, biology major Donnellan, said, "I've lived with Tom Heyman almost as long as I lived with my parents." That's because he and Heyman always shared "a similar world view, a certain cynicism about . . . you name it . . . the slice of American pie that we chose not to chase." In 1988, after Heyman and Donnellan "scurried back to Waterville for a while" to regroup ("I think there's a certain mellowness to being in Maine," said Donnellan), they migrated to Washington, D.C., "out of convenience," according to Heyman, "because it's better than central Maine for a band." When they got their first record deal soon after, Heyman said to himself, "We can do this." Donnellan remembers a time when he and Heyman and Ted Warren were living together in Washington and commuting together to work with the same construction company. "Driving to Maryland, we saw just a little bit too much of each other," he said. But, Heyman said, "Basically we like what we're doing, and the fact that we're friends makes it work. We were friends before we did it. We're doing good stuff. Belief in that keeps you going." Go To Blazes has made vinyl 45 singles for collectors' markets and has two songs each on the soundtracks of three films, including a soon-to-be-released soundtrack record for Kill the Moonlight. For the German company they recently recorded "And Other Crimes," mostly acoustic, obscure cover songs, knockoffs of Lou Reed and Gordon Lightfoot and others, Heyman says, which they're selling in the States themselves to cut out the middlemen. "For years we've been doing our best to keep our names in people's minds," Donnellan said. "We got a little buzz going with `Anytime . . . Anywhere.' We're still moving forward." The buzz hasn't led yet to offers from a major label, but when Atlantic snapped up East Side's top act, a vacuum was created, and Donnellan thinks Go To Blazes will be East Side's priority for the next year and that the majors will look again at what the label is doing.