Paul: We were you know, the very first thing we did in
the States, Mike & I went down there with our manag-
er Lou Blair at the time & the three of us went to LA
to shop, because we had an appointment with Capitol
Records, but I can't remember if it was the day before or
the day after, on that same trip, we went to this outdoor
gig at the Colosseum in LA & Van Halen was playing,
Cheap Trick, Eddie Money, & all these really cool bands,
still great great great bands, we wanted to see where we
were at because we want to know are we doing the right
thing here? Are we even close? Not that there was any-
thing we could do about It, but that's who we are but we
went ‘ you know what, I think we will fit in this slot &
we're on the right track. Thankfully, what gonna do, say
let’s go write a Van Halen tune, no, but we felt, you know
we could be on a stage right now & we could be playing
these songs and we could get over with this crowd. Then
we went to Capitol Records & played them the demos we
had maybe 6 or 7 songs on a ghetto blaster, we didn't go
in like we were singing live you know we just had may-
be guitar, metadome for drums & 2 vocals because we
established that right off the bat like the Everly Brothers
two part harmony thing & John Lennon, Paul McCart-
ney two part harmony thing, we kinda had our own style
so we took it to the guy (I can't remember his name)
doesn't matter & he said, “you guys don't have any atti-
tude so there'