What about the Atlantic Records connection, Aziz Goksel and Ahmet Ertegun?
CF: After a couple of years, we reconnected with Atlantic and Ahmet. Ahmet came out to see the band, and came several times to hang with me in my apartment where I had my studio, just to talk and listen to records and songs I’d written. He was very high on my songs and singing, but felt that The Enemy was good, but not unique enough to be interesting. Dance music was popular at the time and a five-piece rock band was not on Atlantic’s must-have list. He signed me to Atlantic to write and develop my songs. Ironically, that’s really what I do in my solo show; the music that caught Ahmet’s ear is well-represented in my later solo CD Deja Blue. He loved the stuff but felt he couldn’t get radio to play it, urging me to keep writing and waiting for the right time. I was impatient, and both Dave and I were itching to get back on the road, so I asked for, and was graciously allowed, to leave Atlantic to pursue a new rock band. Looking back it seems silly to not take the advice of someone like
