They never had jobs. They made their living being a band by the time they were age 16 or 17. That was the way they thought. You're going to get our record played on the radio because we're on Reprise. That doesn't work at all.
Kids have to respond.
Let's say you could go buy a radio station. If that record doesn't respond, if the kids aren't buying it, if the kids don't call in and say they really like it, and if it doesn't research or whatever it is they do to figure out what radio knows, you're not going to have a hit, no matter what. The only thing that brings kids and music fans into the stores to actually buy a record is that they are interested in what the band is saying, and doing, and playing, and what that's about. I know that's probably a real elementary thing to say, but I'm saying it as advice to the bands out there who are trying to figure it out. Unfortunately, I meet too many bands that just don't seem to know that.