I was tickled to hear the news. I don't care that it's not an official record. The fact is it was a fish that big. That's what pleased me. . . . It's still the biggest bass ever caught.

I was tickled to hear the news. I don't care that it's not an official record. The fact is it was a fish that big. That's what pleased me. . . . It's still the biggest bass ever caught.

Not only did I get to hear some great rock songs every week, but I got to know all the guys in INXS and all the singers and hang out with them a lot, ... I made some really great friends, and I also got to be a part of helping some artists reach out and touch their dreams. Whether or not they won the show wasn't the point; the point was they got to do their craft in front of millions of people. [INXS are] going to be members of my musical family forever, and hopefully I'll be the same for them.

Orville believed that those Florida bass would grow out here. And he was right.

People run out of space and they are looking for somewhere to send them. So they give us a call.

If the record company won't let you put a record out, then you've nothing to promote, and they're not going to help you out with the tour budget if you've nothing to promote. So basically we were kind of trapped. And all the songs we would have written would have been owned by Mercury until they released us. So what do you do? It's kind of like a prison sentence. You are at their beck and call a little.