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TO THE RESCUE!
TO THE RESCUE!

ohn Fred looks back to when the think that Mascot had the best fit for us. It as a band. “Gosh, it’s 15 years this year
Jband split with Roadrunner was great. We went out to eat with the since 2001,” he reminisces. “Everything
Records. “It’s funny because when we got owner, Ed. He started talking about guitars we’ve been through has been worth it.” He
dropped, we were sitting around going, and his music knowledge was really what remembers some awkward and uncomfort-
“This is the greatest thing that’s ever hap- pushed us over the edge to go with him be- able times though. “There are some things
pened – because now we have control of cause a lot of time you get with unique we did… working with people as we were
what we’ve always been wanting to do”. record people and they have no idea what coming up… I don’t look at anything as a
Then we sat there and were like, “Y’know, a guitar is – and in our world that’s kind of waste of time… At the time, when you’re a
this is scary, a little bit.” You don’t know if disappointing. Meeting with him and meet- growing musician, you think that that’s the
anyone’s going to want to work with you or ing the people who work at Mascot has most important thing, you’ve got to get this
push your new product, but fortunately, it been wonderful. We’ve been doing press right and you put so much emphasis on
was really cool. We had about seven or every single hour!” he laughs. “It’s a fresh working on a specific part of your career
eight labels that we met with and talked to breath of air. It’s awesome.” that you realize later that you really didn’t
that were passionate about the band, but I He says that they’ve been through a lot have to do that. I think a lot of musicians get
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