The record label, on the other hand, was predictably unenthusiastic about the idea of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a video to protest a military action that roughly 70 percent of Americans supported at that point—all while not even having a single on the radio to help sell more records. A couple of days after that meeting, I got a call from Beno informing me that Sony had rejected the idea. I didn’t get angry. I didn’t curse anyone out. But in a matter-of-fact voice, I told our manager to inform the label that I was out of the band.
