Club Class: Fly AMC to California
Ralph Traitor, Sounds, 25 March 1989
"ELEKTRA WERE GONNA give us a 300,000 dollar distribution deal through Frontier so we had full artistic control. Then they saw a video of an interview I gave and said theyd never want anybody on the label saying the kinds of things I was saying – I might put down my own band and stuff, but its not true. I think were the best band in the world, sincerely. Majors approach us, get scared shitless, and then retreat!"
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