This is an excerpt of an article off of Tonos Network website. It is an interview with Rick Krim, the Senior Vice President of Talent Acquisition and Marketing at EMI Music Puplishing. Below are the parts pertaining to the Mayfield Four. To see the full interview, click here.

What's the one band or artist that you signed that you thought could have or should have made it, but didn't?

RK: How about if we revise your question to didn't, but will? There's a band from Portland, Oregon called Mayfield Four who absolutely blew me away when I saw them and heard their music. I thought they couldn't miss. They were writing amazing rock songs beyond their age, which in retrospect they may have made a record that was too heady and intelligent for the market.

This was a band that I aggressively pursued. They did not want to do a publishing deal and it took months of courting. I signed them after Epic signed them to a label deal. When their record came out, it only sold 5,000 copies and I was shocked and disappointed because I thought they deserved to do so much better.

I don't fault the label; maybe the timing wasn't right. To their credit, the band has gone in and made a much more direct record, probably much more suited for the current marketplace. After hearing rough mixes of this new record, I am convinced that I will be vindicated when it's released.

I totally believe in the band and I look forward to spring 2001 when Mayfield Four's new record will drop. If that one doesn't happen, that will be my biggest disappointment ever. I feel pretty confident that everything is in place.