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RECORDING INDUSTRY CONVENTION
Atlanta, Georgia
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All those arguments about touring...
We belong on tour.
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All that stuff about you being
too old and being too white...
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What about the album, lan?
This is beginning to be a refrain here.
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There's no way
to promote something that doesn't exist.
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It's just that they're
just experimenting with, er,
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with new packaging materials.
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Experimenting?
They got monkeys opening it?
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The other thing is
that the Boston gig has been cancelled.
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I wouldn't worry about it.
It's not a big college town.
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You boys got an album
coming out or anything?
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Smell The Glove. It should be out...
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- Smell The Glove?
- Smell The Glove, yeah.
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- Provocative title.
- Wait till you see the cover.
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Very provocative indeed.
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Bobbi, can I tear you away from all this?
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- Do you have a drink?
- I don't really need one.
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But, um, listen. I really do have to
talk to you a bit about this...
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lan, just tell me what's on your mind.
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- The issue of the cover.
- Yeah.
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Um... we, er, I mean, we feel,
and it seems to be fact,
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that the company's rather down
on the cover. Is that the case?
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- Yes.
- You can give it to me straight.
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Listen... they don't like the cover.
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- Well, that's straight.
- They find it offensive and sexist.
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What do you find offensive?
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lan, you put a greased,
naked woman on all fours
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with a dog collar around her neck
and a leash,
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and a man's arm extended out up to here
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holding onto the leash and pushing
a black glove in her face to sniff it.
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You don't find that offensive and sexist?
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- This is 1982!
- That's right, it's 1982.
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We don't have this mentality any more.
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You should've seen the cover
they wanted to do!
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This is something you have to talk about.
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- We're not laying down any conditions...
- A sexy cover isn't why an album sells.