Every time we'd be dealt some bad news, you'd be miserable for a day or two then ultimately I kind of prided myself in getting back up and taking another shot. We ended up doing a demo in the summer of 1998 after we had been turned down by everyone. We went back in the studio and did a demo of three songs. The irony here is that we spent a year demo-ing four songs with a producer that we got passed on and then spent three days doing three songs with no producer, sent it out, and a month later we had five labels who wanted to sign us. Everything we always heard about the band was that none of us are superstars.
Nobody's the next rock icon here.
Labels tend to sign bands for a few reasons and one being is if you see somebody who's a star then there's reason enough to sign 'em. Whether or not their music is great, they are going to sell records. The other reason they sign bands is if there's an undeniable song. The funny thing is, when we recorded it we sat on it for like a month because we were so exhausted from shopping our songs to labels. Our manager had sent just a few out to people that were very positive about the band.