How was it making a record for a major label?
GG: We got signed in March and we had written some songs since we had put out our full-length independent [album] so we went into a development stage with the label. We were to write songs and demo them up and when they felt we had enough stuff to make a record, then we’d go into the studio. That lasted until September of the same year. So we had the songs accumulated and demoed up. With the help of our A&R guy we went through the process of thinking about who would produce it, which was kind of odd because we had always been self-produced. We talked to several different producers and settled on a guy named Howard Vincent, who has had a lot of success since then. We thought he would be good and he was in L.A. and we wanted to be out in L.A. and do the rock star thing. We went in and did some pre-production and started to make the record. The actual making of the record was about 180 degrees different than what any of us thought that it would be. It was very, very different and odd and
