Troy Duffy
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And then he ended up quitting his job and becoming our manager and sort of saying, I'm going to help get you signed.
Moved to L.A.
and just went scorched earth.
Like, we're going to get signed.
Everybody turned us down.
Over and over and over again.
This is the grunge era.
Everybody's like, what the heck?
You guys are Jackson 5-ish, but you're long blonde hair, and you're from Oklahoma, and you're white.
And then also at the same time, too, we were writing songs and getting friends of ours who were better musicians than we were to make tracks for us to sing the songs live.
So the record labels, I mean, all the, like, huge guys that are still big leagues now, you know, we had...
We had MCA.
We had to sit down with them.
Lots of big labels.
All turned us down.
And then one A&R guy that was the third person at Mercury to get it was told by the president of the label at Mercury at the time, look, go see these kids play.