INTERVIEW

I remember talking to Derek Shulman and John Weathers when this album came out and they were on their first really big North American tour... (as headliners). They had hoped that this album with its streamlined, pop sound would get them airtime and take them out of the "progressive rock" pigeonhole...

The immediate problem with the album was programming and the interview snippets, which were not very interesting and made the record difficult to play on radio without editing... Many of the stronger songs were on the second side, and the band obviously heard something in tracks like "Interview" and "Give it Back" that their hosts could not.

If this is a concept album, the theme is surely how sick the band were of touring and promoting their records... quite a departure from the fantasy / literary references of their previous works... and not something that the fans were likely to identify with.

We started worrying about them at this point.