Pete Drivere remembers how simple life was 15 years ago.

He lived with his parents in West Middlesex, he didn't have a job and he wrote songs in his bedroom.

"I was basically unemployable," Drivere said.

He wrote those songs for his band, the Infidels, which started as a punk unit but quickly took on more musical sophistication and nuance.

Life has gotten much more complicated as Drivere runs from project to project. The Infidels are back together, he has a new band with a recording coming out and he owns a recording studio, Ampreon Recorder, in Youngstown.

"I have a planner now," said the self-professed "lazy guy in a busy guy's world." "I used to despise that as something too grown up."

But, just because he is inching closer to being grown up, that doesn't mean he's nostalgic. Although the arguably most successful lineup of the Infidels is back together, the band's first show in years, set for Sunday at Cedar's in Youngstown, is not a reunion show, Drivere said.

"It's more like a reintroduction to our previous fans and any curious onlookers," he said.

The band will play mostly songs from its two full-length albums, "9:25 and Seven Seconds" from 1988 and "Wondrous Strange" from 1990, and some surprises that long-time fans will remember.

"We brought back some of the old, old songs," Drivere said.

But the musicians are not looking to relive 1991. After Sunday's show, much of that material will be shelved as the band works on an album.

Drivere and bassist John Hlumyk were 15 when they formed the band in 1982 in West Middlesex, and the lineup stabilized by 1985 with drummer John Koury and guitarist Dave Lisko. All members sang and wrote songs.

Koury and Lisko left the band in 1991, and Hlumyk in 1992. Drivere kept the Infidels going, lastly as a trio, until 1996, when he retired the name in favor of Sac.

Drivere, of Youngstown, concentrated on Ampreon and live sound engineering, and quit live performance. Hlumyk, who lives in West Middlesex, got a real job and is now a carpenter.

Koury found regional success as a member of Slack Jaw, which also featured Drivere's childhood friend, Ron Gordon. Koury lives in Twinsburg and does regional promotion for Warner Bros. Records.

Lisko stayed in Youngstown playing with the Smarties, and does solo acoustic shows.

About a year and a half ago, Lisko asked Drivere if he would be interested in getting the Infidels back together.

Drivere agreed, as long as the band did a new album, and Hlumyk and Koury climbed back aboard.

Time has improved the members as musicians and people, Drivere said.

Musically, they play better and smarter. "What remains is a lot of the energy that people expected -- in a scary way," he said. "For guys 10 years older, it's still there."

What's not there are personality conflicts.

"It was real nice to start playing again because we had grown up a bit," Drivere said. "The old issues weren't there any more. The old conflicts, we talked about. So much of the bad blood has been thrown away and disposed of.

"Everyone has come to terms with what we were then and what we are now. All the creativity is there and none of the negativity."

Not only did the band start recording, it remastered "9:25 and Seven Seconds" and "Wondrous Strange," which will be released Saturday, and formed a label, Majestic Records. "9:25" has never been released on compact disc before.

The band booked Sunday's concert to promote the re-releases.

The show also will mark the first performance by Pete Drivere and the Pretty Demons, who will open.

Drivere has been assembling a solo album, "Pretty Demons," which will be released Saturday, for about five years, and put together a band to play the songs live.

The Pretty Demons are made up of Lisko, playing bass, drummer Dennis Kocholek of Hermitage, who played with Drivere in the latter days of the Infidels and Sac, and guitarist Don Dipiero.

Drivere called the "Pretty Demons" songs "looser" and "more home spun," than the Infidels'. They don't rock as hard, and his guitar playing is not as prominent.

"The Infidels are a smarter sounding band, but this has its charm, too," Drivere said.

Drivere, who will pursue Pretty Demons shows while recording with the Infidels, said he enjoys each of his roles, and relishes the opportunity to make a career as an independent musician.

"If we were offered a record deal today, I'd think harder," he said. "I'd wait two heartbeats instead of one."