Hib-Tone

A dear, sweet friend of mine, April Malin Verney, had been very close with John Lombardo before she moved south.

April was aware of my work with R.E.M., but she introduced me to, to John, got word through John the Maniacs were eager to be on Hib-Tone Records, uh, which was my indie label.

He took some interest in us, and he had a, he had his own label.

His name was Hibbert, so he had a, a label called Hib-Tone Records with basically him and R.E.M. and maybe one other band.

So we got down there, and we thought we were gonna record on his label right away.

They were kind of a, a real go-for-it group of, um very young musicians at the time.

I

just know this because I've got a compilation that says original, like it's a version of Radio Free Europe, which was the, and it says in parentheses, original Hibtone single.

Yes.

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