Brenden Salmon: Please welcome Aimee Mann.
Aimee Mann: Nice one.
Brenden Salmon: I think yeah. Hi.
Aimee Mann: Hello I have never walked out on the stage and just sat before. I don't really know what I was supposed to do.
Brenden Salmon: Well .
Aimee Mann: So we shake hands?
Brenden Salmon: I don't know I didn't know yeah of course.
Aimee Mann: Here it is, let us commence the interview.
Brenden Salmon: It is because I was talking about the high five. So you didn't know how to start. You know, the sitting looks good. If you want to .
Aimee Mann: Starting with the high five, I don't know, I will end it with a high five.
Brenden Salmon: The hand shake was very nice. So how do you normally come out on to a stage, is it like blaring, stadium, craziness?
Aimee Mann: It's a lot of this.
Brenden Salmon: A lot of that -.
Aimee Mann: Like -.
Brenden Salmon: They could be doing it, we just can't see.
Aimee Mann: A lot of "wooh."
Brenden Salmon: A lot of that Wow.
Aimee Mann: I was I was fishing for "woohs."
Brenden Salmon: It sounds like they will do anything you ask them to do it, any how. That's like throwing money on the stage.
Aimee Mann: Yeah yeah a lot of stacks of dollars that appear on the stage.
Brenden Salmon: Hundreds that's where musicians makes their money.
Aimee Mann: I just as soon as you said throwing money, I I knew that somebody will threw a quarters. And then that's why I had to switch it to bills, yeah, because we are going to get some quarters and I don't think we want that.
Brenden Salmon: Have you ever have ever been hit by a coin on stage?
Aimee Mann: No no.
Brenden Salmon: Okay no now is no like a -?
Aimee Mann: I am not like a dancing monkey.
Brenden Salmon: What do you what do you do again? Exactly? I had a whole outline. This wasn't part of it.
Aimee Mann: What is ?
Brenden Salmon: What is the first thing?
Aimee Mann: Yeah what's your what is your first thing on your on your path?
Brenden Salmon: Well sideways after no actually I was going to hopefully see if we could start from the start, if you have a memory of I mean when you first started playing an instrument or do you remember picking up the guitar or it was like green apples if you want to -?
Aimee Mann: Does anyone eat an apple on stage? Is that what really that will really add a little something to the interview
Brenden Salmon: We are all interested.
Aimee Mann: No I I apologize -
Brenden Salmon: No, Jerry Lewis -.
Aimee Mann: - because it's a hard business to get used to.
Brenden Salmon: Jerry Lewis ate an apple and spat it on the carpet, he's the only person.
Aimee Mann: I can't believe that I thought of the same gag I guess Jerry Lewis. That's not cool.
Brenden Salmon: No, it is cool it's very cool. Okay so .
Aimee Mann: Okay so -.
Brenden Salmon: So you were picking up the guitar and what what was that?
Aimee Mann: I have started playing guitar when I was 12 because I got sick, I got mono. I am telling you by the way, if this like microphone thing is like not if it's it's like this weird and invisible mic. So if it's not you know, I feel very awkward with it. It's like the this filament that sort of you know, magically I was supposed to pick up my words. So, I got sick, I got mono and and so I was in bed for three weeks and I was sort of too exhausted to like usually reading was my thing, and I was too exhausted to read. And so for some reason I thought I would take the guitar that my brothers had got for Christmas, out of their closet and I can't and kind of help myself how to play, in a really rudimentary way. I mean I am not like much of a guitar player. It's sort of like you know, chords and just strumming chords. But but just you know, kind of teach myself how to play. I think like you know, like a Neil Young song or something.
Brenden Salmon: Did your did your brother or brothers who played to help you did they show you chords or you were just sitting like -.
Aimee Mann: Oh no no.
Brenden Salmon: They didn't want something in the mono room?
Aimee Mann: Just that if you know my family, like the sentence that starts did your brothers help like like that. That's not our family. That's not our thing. Actually the miracle was that is that my brother did not beat me up for taking things out of his closet. Like, that was a miracle like I don't may be I hid it or something, because generally, I guess like our family is very dug in the manger, like even if you are playing that guitar and like they never played it, like nobody knew how to play the guitar. I don't know why anybody got it for Christmas. But like regardless of you if you play guitar or not god damn it, no one else was going to so that was more of the Christmas miracle. So I didn't get beaten up for taking that guitar.
Brenden Salmon: That is a good story, because its I am glad that you you have the good guitar playing, guitar learning experience. Did you sit with it, I mean you are I imagine you are in fighting your sick wood. Did you play it upright when you started or were you it was laying down -?
Aimee Mann: No it was like -.
Brenden Salmon: - because you were small.
Aimee Mann: That's probably like propped up by some pillows or something.
Brenden Salmon: Yeah. And then that was that was a, is that I want to play guitar forever and -?
Aimee Mann: No, I just think that it was like a sing, you know like when you are a kid and you know like you are 12, and you are miserable of course and and -.
Brenden Salmon: Of course.
Aimee Mann: Right?
Brenden Salmon: It seems it happened for you.
Aimee Mann: I accept just the possibility that they exist. When you are me and you are 12 and you are miserable, I think it's just like it's just that thing that like I don't know like it's that you can have and it's personal and like music is the sort of great thing and you know like if there are songs that you love then and something you sort of playing and then like I don't know, it's kind of that's I don't know, like suddenly you have something that's yours you know. And it was is really it was really nice and I think just kind of I don't know that like I just put them in my back pocket and and it's not like I mean I was never one of those kids like you know my husband Michael Penn you know, talks about like oh yeah I remember like learning how to play that Beatle song, you know like the learning like like figuring it out from the record like immediately like oh my god, like that's was just way too advanced. And you know, it's but I could like in the you know music books they have like it's just like a little grid that shows you where to put your fingers on a guitar. And so like I you know, that was more my speed. But you know, so it wasn't like I never considered myself a musician and it was kind of just a mistake almost that I became I mean it was like sort of a shot in the dark, you know like yeah I liked playing guitar and like I tried to write songs, but like they were sort of disasters and and how I became a musician was I had of heard about this school called Berklee College of Music, that was in Boston, and the person telling me about it said like, yeah it's kind of a jazz school, but just sort of pop music and and you don't have the audition, because most music schools then were you know like kind of kind of classical - - and that was it. And you know when I you know with my four chords, on acoustic guitar you know like where am I going with that, and -.
Brenden Salmon: Julliard here.
Aimee Mann: Yeah, I know. Trust me, I got something inside, you can't see it, but it's there.
Brenden Salmon: And it's like "G" four times.
Aimee Mann: Yeah, like check it out and -.
Brenden Salmon: You are going to regret this?
Aimee Mann: And I can't like really sing either. So it wasn't like I can't really do anything. You know like I kind of liked music and could play a couple of chords, like that one you know. And so I had heard about this school and I and I thought, well maybe if I learn about music, then I'll know if I have any talent, like I I don't really know like music was a big mystery to me in a lot of ways. But I was a big you know, a believer in like learning self, like you know that an idea that if you you know like really applied yourself to something that you know, that you'd get results. And and so I did this summer session at Berklee, because I actually didn't like even though they don't have auditions like I still kind of I didn't I still couldn't get in. So I mean I just said like really, like you know you got to start somewhere. I mean you know like I don't like you know I didn't have anything to offer. So but I did this seven week session where you know I had to offer was you know, the price of admission and and I did really well. And it was you know a real revelation, like a lot of things where real revelation, like first of all that that you could through taking ear training classes, you could improve your ability to like remember and sing back melodies, or like recognize chords or chord progressions. I couldn't like I was like really, like you can better, I thought like you I thought you either had it or you don't. And you can get better at you know hearing dispirit elements within you know, within the production of a song. And you know because to me like music was just like a vocal and then a bunch of stuff, you know like a big thing, and then the vocal sat on top of it. So I could never hear you know, people will go like, listen to that snare and I was like, what, like how can you possibly take out like one thing. And so I realized that through practice you could get better at those things and I started playing the bass because I always wanted to play bass and I and I and like I got I got you know, I practiced a lot and I got better and and that was sort of like so you know, the third lesson like, practice and you get better. So you know, I sort of so I thought like, well I will take this as far as I can, like until like I reach like an obstacle or a road block and then you know, then I will quit, you know, because I mean I was like like I mean I talked like this. You know, people would go like you know music business is hard, like you know it's nobody ever knew -.
Brenden Salmon: But you know it's not true.
Aimee Mann: And I knew like I don't really have that much talent, like I you know, so I mean I was like I am with you you know, like I you know, so it was like, well I would do this until you know, there is sort of a clear signal, like you are barking up the wrong tree. And I I just never got that signal. You know it was like I I formed a band and band did really well around town and and then I formed another band, then we got signed and you know, it just like kept going on.
Brenden Salmon: Well the first band is the The Young .
Aimee Mann: Yeah that was kind of like the Punky, arty band called The Young Snakes.
Brenden Salmon: The Young Snakes.
Aimee Mann: Which is it was not my name. I always thought it was kind of stupid.
Brenden Salmon: It's a good name.
Aimee Mann: I kind of like it better in retrospect. Here today well let me tell you, here is the name I wanted. It was 1980, okay, The Astro Pops. Is that the greatest name ever? The Astro Pops.
Brenden Salmon: Was it like one night after a gig and you are like, you know what, I don't want to be The Young Snakes, I want to be The Astro Pops and there was like a heated discussion?
Aimee Mann: No we had talked about we had talked about the name and that that was one of the names and the the drummer booked us a gig, the drummer wanted the name The Young Snakes and he just booked it under The Young Snakes, really a jack ass. Now its stuck the yeah.
Brenden Salmon: And did you did you tour with them? I mean I know if one thinks says -?
Aimee Mann: No no we played them we played around around Boston and I actually you know, I actually was able to make a living, playing in The Young Snakes, I could gigs around Boston, you know, like $50 here and $75 there, I mean you know -.
Brenden Salmon: Did you still like singing?
Aimee Mann: - it was like low level living, but .
Brenden Salmon: You were playing bass and singing?
Aimee Mann: Just playing bass and singing.
Brenden Salmon: Yeah and you were writing the songs at that time?
Aimee Mann: Yeah we sort of wrote them together. I mean songs as just being kind like you know, it's like a punk punk thing and you know, the the idea was like we are breaking all the rules. You know like we are not going to do anything that other people do, you know like, what do other people do like half chords is not for us you know like, melody fuck that. So it was really like it was really unlistenable like it was pretty it was pretty grading and it was mentally grading you know ee-o-o-aa-ee like it gets pretty odd, doesn't it?
Brenden Salmon: Was there any dance moves that went along with it?
Aimee Mann: No, no, no but like you know, I mean my hero's were Devo and you know like I love that sort of new wave stuff. But it was pretty like Nina Hagen and I don't know if you know who she is, but like
Brenden Salmon: No, I don't.
Aimee Mann: - she was like just crazy east German and she used to be an opera singer. So she was like it it was kind of opera punky vocals and like she was idol, so I tried to imitate that and -.
Brenden Salmon: She has got some other fans here too, oh yeah she is alive.
Aimee Mann: It was it was a tough road. But umm.
Brenden Salmon: Well I wanted-
Aimee Mann: But you know I mean that was really you know that was a lot of fun and it was like all purely experimental and and then there came a point where I sort of felt like you know, this punk thing with like its no rules is sort of like it's very restrictive. Like you know, you can't write about love or relationships or you know, like the all the stuff it's you know, there is no melody you know, like it's nothing can be pretty or you know, sentimental or you know, or emotion like like we have had songs about like I had a song about an electric dog and Carl Kanine the electric dog. I actually my brother wrote the lyrics to that. But you know that will give you like an idea, so.
Brenden Salmon: Yeah, Electric dog is very punk.
Aimee Mann: Yeah. Yeah it was super super punky new wave.
Brenden Salmon: Yeah was it punks coming to the show?
Aimee Mann: Yeah I mean you know, such as such as they were in Boston in 1980. Yeah. We had some we had some punks.
Brenden Salmon: I I believe it.I I believe it
Aimee Mann: You know we had several we have some Mohawks, I don't think we didn't.
Brenden Salmon: I I know there were Mohawks there at that time. It's on a it all on YouTube now. I now want to I want to obviously before but just briefly before we move away from childhood and all this I mean what were listening to when you started playing guitar? I mean what were you when you were in high school, what bands I know you have talked about Sgt. Pepper's.
Aimee Mann: Yeah the you know, I was I was one of those people who I am like in a way I am not a music fan. I don't there is not like a lot of stuff I like. But when I like something I really like it and I listen to it over and over. And the stuff for me was early-early Elton John, you know like Madman Across the Water, Tumbleweed Connection, that stuff. I was a big fan of his. You know Beatles, Badfinger, just I am trying to I am trying to think, because sometimes I was like odd ball stuff like Leon Russell, like you know you don't even know what I am talking about.
Brenden Salmon: No I don't. You like to the look, you know like I don't like and all that.
Aimee Mann: You know.
Brenden Salmon: You know what I am saying.
Aimee Mann: He also Neil Young I loved and Dylan but not like not even all of Dylan because in a way he wasn't really melodic enough me. And you know when I was a kid like Monkeys and the Partridge Family, you know I mean like really they are melodic song writer the stuff I loved.
Brenden Salmon: Oh I read a thing I heard you had the thing for The Rutles actually.
Aimee Mann: Yeah yeah I love them.
Brenden Salmon: Do you guys know who The Rutles are?
Aimee Mann: I love the Rutles.
Brenden Salmon: And you are in a you sang with .
Aimee Mann: Neil Innes.
Brenden Salmon: Yeah and you are in a documentary, there is a real Rutles connection.
Aimee Mann: Yeah there is a documentary that's being made right now, you know.
Brenden Salmon: Yeah, what's what's that about?
Aimee Mann: Well, I don't know. I mean I saw that I saw that movie when it was on TV you know and like it was 1976 and I just loved it. I mean you know its like who doesn't love a mockumentary. And I don't know I thought it was funny but I also I kind of loved the music. I love music parodies, like I think there is almost no music parody that I don't like like from Allan Sherman who is you definitely don't know who that is and or like "Weird Al" or you know, like anybody who does a music parody. I just I truly love it. I don't know why, but -.
Brenden Salmon: Yeah, you know I am with you on the Weird Al, on the other I'll check out the other stuff hopefully.
Aimee Mann: Allan Sherman is like he was like the Weird Al of like the 60s.
Brenden Salmon: Really?
Aimee Mann: Yeah.
Brenden Salmon: That's so hard to picture. Well okay, so and back to and then obviously fans most people here know you from that weren't punks in Boston in the 80s know you from 'Til Tuesday
Aimee Mann: Yeah.
Brenden Salmon: - and how did you guys form and I mean -?
Aimee Mann: When that was right on the heels of The Young Snakes, when I kind of got sick of that whole that whole thing and you know, sick of that whole punk scene and you know the more dance, new wave stuff was coming in and I was working on a record store and like a chain you know like strawberries, it grows like a chain, a bigger chain and and they will play a lot of dance music. And which then was sort of like, I don't even know if I can the Gap Band like I can't really remember names of bands but I was sort of then I got into the dance thing and that sort of sat with the new wavy stuff and so 'Til Tuesday, that was kind of 'Til Tuesday's thing it was you know you know, like Thompsons Twins you kind of stuff.
Brenden Salmon: Have you met the other members of 'Til Tuesday at the Berklee School of Music or -?
Aimee Mann: The drummer Michael Hausman I wasn't going about any of them Hausman went to Berklee, but he was in a you know, we have met each other just through other bands in the Boston scene.
Brenden Salmon: He is now your manager? And he turned into you guys and they are working quite a lot together.
Aimee Mann: Yeah, yeah, he sort of managed the band. He was the drummer of 'Til Tuesday, but like he was kind of like the guy who he was like the smart guy who would look through all the contracts and stuff.
Brenden Salmon: He wasn't the same guy who named you The Young Snakes.
Aimee Mann: No, no, - it was another guy. So, yeah, so we ended up working together just you know from the you know like 1980 on. Actually I think he played drums in The Young Snakes for a few you know, so it was like a re-lap.
Brenden Salmon: Yeah, and you 'Til Tuesday was named MTV's you know it was kind of hit that 1985 New Artist of The Year, I mean which was a big that's a big deal at that time.
Aimee Mann: Yeah.
Brenden Salmon: So and now looking back, I mean at that point were you thinking, we've made it, everything is fine, major labels here we come, I mean that's it.
Aimee Mann: Yeah. It's a kind of the thinking.
Brenden Salmon: So how did that go, then after it so you are obviously very excited and then who do you sign with at that point.
Aimee Mann: We signed with Epic Records and it's complicated because I think it's I think the time when you are really excited is like right before you get signed. And then you think you know, you are going to get signed and you are going to make it, and then and then you just you have venue like in the vortex, like you just realize how weird it is and how complicated it is and you know then there is always like we are political stuff of a record company and you know you didn't thank somebody and then somebody gets bent out of shape you know. You know, what I mean like I remember the music awards, I didn't thank the record company which I just you know, and sort of naively and sort of go. Oh and a word for video, thank you to the video director, like that's sort of you know, the one who made the video that's getting the award. And I remember people getting mad at me because I didn't thank the record company like nobody gives a shit about the record company. I mean like like the audience doesn't care you know, what I mean. Yeah.Then you sort of realize it's just all like crazy egos out of control and I don't know like its its weird. It was weird for me because because we have like a video that was you know, that was popular, we were really recognizable, but we weren't making like any money. We had bad managers and our managers made some weird decisions about not taking tour support, so so our first tour was opening for Hall & Oates and like and like arenas. And so we were driving ourselves in a van like you know you know, like we were driving ourselves in a van over miles and mile I mean like you know, eight hour drives 10 hour you know, like it was crazy and staying you know, like doubling it up in rooms like in motel sixes, like we worse than motel like truck's top, like brows where the bed sags and there is like cigarette burns in the bed spread and stuff. And you know like sharing a bed, so so it was like really low level. And then .
Brenden Salmon: Where were Hall & Oates staying?
Aimee Mann: You know, they were standing.
Brenden Salmon: They were okay.
Aimee Mann: Yeah they were living a life.
Brenden Salmon: They weren't sharing like bed like next door.
Aimee Mann: No, no, they had buses and stuff. You know, they were they had buses and they were doing overnight drives and they were like trying to drive during the day and make the gig on time that but I mean we just had we had no money. And you know, because usually you do is you take tour support from the you know, the record company and for some reason our manager is just is this not like it's the super dull for people .
Brenden Salmon: I don't no I don't think so.
Aimee Mann: No, no I am just kind of talking and assuming you will like shut me up when it gets boring. But for some reason our managers have this idea like we don't want to get into debt with the record company like you know, that's ridiculous idea because we are always in debt to the record company, no matter what you do. And then they I got like some publishing money and then they they like talked me into giving it, like supporting the bands or like
Brenden Salmon: The record label did.
Aimee Mann: No, no our managers .
Brenden Salmon: Oh, that's a nice of them.
Aimee Mann: Yeah, I know it was like a whole it's really weird. So like the anyway the upshot is we we were playing in arenas and making a $150 a week. And so and but like people were following us home. So it was really like there was a really creepy disconnect and and then you know, we are all like, on the roads too much and and then I just started to like lose my mind. Yeah that's really, I don't know like I you just think it would be fun and it was like it was not fun, I have to say.
Brenden Salmon: It doesn't actually .
Aimee Mann: I got to say I mean I hated then, but it was not fun.
Brenden Salmon: I mean is touring you have much more experience with that now that being your first. I mean touring just unavoidably exhausting. No matter, I mean you have toured -.
Aimee Mann: Touring is exhausting, it is exhausting, just because traveling is exhausting. You know like flying just does something to you and its exhausting and staying at different places every night, it's I don't know, it's sort of like you know, especially with touring there is no excitement of novelty, because it's all the same. But there is no comfort of routine either. So, like it's just kind of like you know, mentally exhausting. And you know, like thank god. Yeah, I really like I know musicians who go like, "They don't pay me for - you know the one hour I am on stage, they pay me for the other 23. You know so it's not like, you know, I mean the playing is great. But I think especially when I was in 'Til Tuesday and playing arenas, I felt I was totally out of my depths. I mean you know, like first of all like, what kind of clothes are you going to buy on a $150 a week like you know like those groovy, romantic clothes, don't buy themselves, people. So that was like you were just out of your depths and you were like, we don't know what we were doing. You know this giant stage and like you don't know what you are doing and and then it get like a lot of like the manager is like really where I can't stress what a problem they were, because you know because it's like you are super young and you don't know what you are doing and then people are telling you stuff and you know like, really like I you know, like where we go like you got to move around more and learn some dance moves and I am like, that's totally no I think, like you know, but you are sort of the you know, like I just didn't have you know, the wherewithal, or like the presence of mind to go like, this is what I you know, I want to do this thing and figure out what that was and you know, here I am you know, I don't know like our first time album was like sort of a dance, pop new wavy thing, because that's what we were doing at the time and then we kind of were off it and wanted to do different thing and - - you know, and then of course the record company didn't want that because it wasn't like the first one and -
Brenden Salmon: And yet I mean, and yet the songs actually I have I have been listening to everything. They really hold out, for as I mean they are a new wave, but there are great songs too.
Aimee Mann: Thank you.
Brenden Salmon: So yeah, so that's nicely you did that because we have them now.
Aimee Mann: Well, thank you.
Brenden Salmon: So, okay so getting of bad management so you you have the wherewithal to at some point start your own record label and you kind of have to -.
Aimee Mann: That's really jumping.
Brenden Salmon: Well you want to or we could go in the back. I just feel like you know, you got bogged down. Well okay, so so you had buy your -.
Aimee Mann: He told it like it was I mean, I asked for it.
Brenden Salmon: Well, that okay, so you had to where from that did you end up not having a record that that you could release for three years, I think this is on Geffen, that you ended up having to buy the masters one day?
Aimee Mann: That was the one.
Brenden Salmon: - eight years ago.
Aimee Mann: I had yeah. That was like, we were on Epic and then 'Til Tuesday kind of dissolved a little bit and and you know, basically what happens in record companies is they look at you like there is always like the personnel always changes. And then the new guys comes and they goes, "Hah, you should do this." And then you are like, "I don't do, that's not my thing and and "Well, hope you don't mind not having your record released". Or like, "Well we will release your record and then bury it." You know, so that's kind of the vibe that that I when we actually got that link every record because every record had different people working at the record company and so this is period where I just was like, I am not going to make another record for you people and have you throw it away. So, you know and they really wanted me to write with different people like you know like super commercial writers, and stuff. And so that was like a three year sort of embargo where I sort it secretly made another record, I sold the record and just waited it out, you know. And then, I guess they are finally they are like, "Well, her career is over." So we can release her now."
Brenden Salmon: Yeah.
Aimee Mann: But you know, the same thing, it just happens over and over. And I wound up and at Geffen I was sort of okay for a while and and then there was like a big merger and that was the same thing and but they said like; you know you could stay you can stay on the label if you want. But but, no they said, we want you to stay. But but you know we think; you know, you are going to have to keep working on this record that you know, that I had already finished and and you know write with more people and blah blah blah. And but you know when they said that you can leave if you want, I was like, I am out of here.
Brenden Salmon: Had they heard -?
Aimee Mann: I was like take it and run.
Brenden Salmon: Had they heard what you have been working on?
Aimee Mann: Oh yeah.
Brenden Salmon: So at least to get more this, more that and you .
Aimee Mann: Well, it was one of those things. It's just like you have them meeting with Mr. Big and you know, like the guy. And you know I got my lawyer $400 an hour waiting there and you know the guy does something like an hour late and you know its like; this record is not done until I say it's done. You are like, all right, well is it done, like well I haven't heard it yet. You know, you are like "Ooh". And I was just like I just didn't want to go through that again. We are like you wait til the guy hears it, then he says, you know you need need to do this, you need to do that. I just wanted to make records. I just wanted to make the records I wanted to make.
Brenden Salmon: So they let you go and you now and you have the -?
Aimee Mann: And then I bought it back, like we worked that the .
Brenden Salmon: You bought it back. And then that became Bachelor No. 2?
Aimee Mann: Yeah.
Brenden Salmon: And that was on this is at the first record on your record label.
Aimee Mann: Yeah.
Brenden Salmon: And so how did you sign I mean, so you really had become kind of business savvy.
Aimee Mann: No.
Brenden Salmon: No not at all.
Aimee Mann: No. I don't I don't do of any of that. That's my that's Michael Hausman.
Brenden Salmon: Okay. So you started the way where
Aimee Mann: Well, just a word, I I you know, don't get the impression I know anything. I am still all at, ding-dong ding-dong' right, I'm writing my little song.
Brenden Salmon: You're not like crunching numbers, like; bring me more pencils, like -.
Aimee Mann: Yeah, exactly.
Brenden Salmon: Carry the one?
Aimee Mann: Carry the one, yeah I don't know any I don't know any of that stuff.
Brenden Salmon: And how well how was Super Ego different from as in independent label, different from the majors?
Aimee Mann: That's it's because its it's only me. It's got one well we did not try to like sign anybody.
Brenden Salmon: That that sounds perfect.
Aimee Mann: Yeah.
Brenden Salmon: So you really get to creative control.
Aimee Mann: I do what yeah, I make what you know I pay for it. If I can pay for it, I can do it, you know. So, if I have money to have a string session; you know or like hire some horns, then I can do it and if I don't I don't do it.
