“All (of the record people) were amazed by the service that they got. They were casually greeted at the door by one of our ‘staff’ members, dressed in NASA-looking Space Opera jumpsuits. The people who served the ‘guests’ must have been girlfriends, but not reduced to servile wenches or anything. They really liked doing it. The ‘guests’ would be waited on and we would sit down and give them our pitch. And in all but one case, we said thank you very much, we’ll get back to you. (More than once), we decided not to go with a label because they were telling us we were not going to get a better deal in this business. You’re hooked up with a producer, boys. That’s the way the system works. We were among the first to change that.