Andy Taylor
Andy Taylor
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Local government represents the cornerstone of the United States, and we fully support the critical role that localities play in protecting consumer and citizen rights. However, with 78 car rental excise taxes in 37 states, and 45 more such taxes pending or under discussion, we must speak out on behalf of our customers. These arbitrary taxes unfairly single out our customers and potentially interfere with interstate commerce by hindering free trade in the nationwide car rental industry.
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What you're seeing is that American consumers are using rental cars in their home towns and neighborhoods for many needs beyond replacements for automobiles that are in the shop. They're renting for corporate and leisure needs, driving vacations, an extra car, or a different kind of car.
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We recorded a bunch of the shows because they were the first shows we'd done back together. We wanted to have a memento of them.
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That way we'll be on a level playing field and remedy the harm to the party has put on us so far.
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The past 12 months have been the most difficult and challenging period that Sanctuary has ever had. As a result, we have had to make some fundamental changes and difficult decisions, but it was essential to make them and we have acted quickly to do so.
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When I first moved to Houston, I had to spend some time figuring out what I wanted to do. The last year has been sort of dormant, but now things have just exploded. It's been kind of crazy how things have just blown up.
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I am totally focused on repairing the short-term damage to what is fundamentally a robust business,
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When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.
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Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.
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I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.
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When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.
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We play a long show, and you can't beat yourself up too much over it, as physically you just kill yourself. It was always good fun on the road and it still is.
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From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.
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We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.