When did the band begin to think along the lines of starting their own record company?
It seems like a real headache. TN: It’s an overwhelming proposition. The first thing we did independently was Another Joyous Occasion, I believe. Then after that we met Sanctuary Records and they were really good to us in the same way that they would give us the money–a quarter of a million bucks-to record your album. I’ve been John’s (Keane) studio before, working with other artists, and he’d be getting fucking emails from people at record companies putting in their two cents worth for the mixes. And it’s like is that’s the way it is? It’s a fucking nightmare. Like I said, that’s one thing we never had to deal with…we were on Capital Records for a short time through Capricorn. They’d lost distributorship. I remember going to New York to the board room at Capitol Records and listening to somebody else tell us what they are going to do for us–or whatever, but our relationship with record companies were–we never took money from them. We were always self–sufficient. We didn’t give away a
