Somebody walked around and said, ‘Hey, Blink is here to present their new record!’ Out of the entire office, five or six people came to listen. We played the first song, then the second song, then by the third song people started checking their BlackBerrys, saying, ‘Uh, I have to go make a phone call.’ By the fifth song, it was one person, who was on their BlackBerry the whole time. By song six or seven, it was just me, Scott, and Tom sitting there by ourselves. That was our reception from MCA when we presented our first major-label record, recorded in a real studio, with a real producer. We
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