Mark Mothersbaugh

But...

At that point, they had just labeled, pretty much had written us off as just weirdos that we signed because of Bowie and Dino.

They talked us into it.

And it was after the third album, you know, the third album had Whippet on it.

So it was after the third one.

Maybe he's overwhelmed, you know, because this is where it happens.

We were in a scenario where...

We went in to do our fourth album.

We were writing it and we were working on it.

And there would be people from the record company coming in and popping their heads in the door and going, hey, how you doing?

We'd go, oh, we're doing fine.

And they'd never shown up before.

I mean, I remember we played the forum and there were people from Warner Brothers who said, I didn't even know you were on our label.

You know, it was that kind of a thing before that.

And then after Whip It, it became, they said, Whip It.

well, go ahead, good luck, but whatever you do, do another Whippet.

And we're like, well, we never thought about music that way.

No.

You know, it was kind of responding to Thomas Pynchon, really.

There was, like, in Gravity's Rainbow, there were this very serious story that's really complicated.