He was so pissed off.

He said, I'm selling that piece of crap that Mercedes has broken down on me so many times.

He says, what have y'all been writing? We're playing the song.

He says, damn, that's Alabama's next single.

Ronnie and I are looking at it and it's like, what in the hell is he talking about? There ain't no way Alabama's cutting a song in this country.

And he said, you don't understand.

The radio guys have been saying that Alabama's not country.

He was on

When did you first realise he was going to be so significant to your industry?

I don't think any of us did early on, actually.

I think we thought that...

Yeah, it's a very good question.

I guess it was Jurassic Park.

When you do something that big, I think that was when you started.

But at that stage, he wasn't necessarily doing a lot of New Zealand things, and there were periods when he didn't.

Did he do a lot for Kiwi actors that were trying to make it?