"It started very simply. Record deals weren't easy to get in the 70’s, and if you did get one, you were often worse off from having done so. Recording in a studio cost a fortune…even one day was costly. We decided to get a recorder and do a basement studio…if you could call it that. We bought a Teac 3340, and we had a $150 Tapco mixer and some mics that we used to capture the band live. Rather than use the recorder to perfect demos or experiment, we set about making a record…in fact, it was the first thing we recorded. The initial song was a slow rocker, somewhat in the style of Humble Pie that always filled the dance floor. We knew it couldn't be a big seller, so in reverse psychology, we saved better songs as not to waste them. The B-side was a ballad that we never played from five years before. We put the guitar amp on the dirt floor, tried some overdubs, and that was it. It only got a few plays and only sold a few, but what it did was get gigs…because we had a record!"

"We booked Signal Sound in Marietta, Ga in blocks scheduled around live shows. With the high cost of studio time, we were under the gun with no time to experiment or fool around, so we played everything really fast! Even with 16 tracks available, we would play the songs as we did live, leaving room on other tracks for vocals and lead guitar. We used no keyboards or outside musicians, feeling like it should be authentic to the way we played the songs live. We tore through Stop and Go in one take, and did a second safety take, but we used the first take. To try and gain headway, we did the straight rockers first. Herb was not too happy with the muffled drum sound as was the method of the studio at the time. We were heavily influenced by the Dave Edmunds Tracks On Wax4 lp, which is about the most bright and compressed album ever! We kept doubling and harmonizing until it was close. Toward the end, we got to the more melodic songs, where I could add the 12 string and more sparkling, jangly guitars. It was a good recipe for our songs and voices. they called it power pop which was about right…bringing the pop melodies we learned in the 60s and turning up the power and energy."