![]() On the bright side, as drummer Zach Lind noted, Capitol gave Jimmy the full control required to put together their masterpiece, 1999’s expansive experimental and utterly gorgeous Clarity, free from interference or pressure. ![]() Having been gifted one such contract by Capitol Records right out of high school, they spent major-label debut Static Prevails clashing repeatedly with their new masters who very clearly had no idea what they were supposed to do with their new signees and, when Static made little to no waves, their label effectively gave up trying to manage or promote them. The Arizona quartet were supposed to be finished as major-label players, just one of the hundreds of victims in the great 90s misguided attempt to find the next Nirvana and Green Day equivalent in the alt-rock/pop-punk scenes by slapping fat contracts on the desk of any guitar band with even a modicum of buzz. “Hey, don’t write yourself off yet / It’s only in your head you feel left out or looked down on.”
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