1.   An executive at Epic Records happened to be a fan, and he signed the band to a seven-album deal.

2.   As it turned out, however, the band got signed after its very first gig in Nashville.

3.   At Mercury, where he signed successful bands like Hanson, Greenberg stuck with the Baha Men as a pet project.

4.   A few years later, Gurewitz signed the band to Epitaph.

5.   All four members had day jobs until the band was signed to a recording contract.

6.   Durst also got the band signed with the Firm, a management agency that represents Bizkit and Korn.

7.   Elektra signs the band in late November.

8.   For much of this time, Coffey was basically running Trance from tour buses and hotel rooms by lugging along a laptop computer and slowly signing bands.

9.   Godhead, from Washington, D.C., was making crunching music for years before Marilyn Manson signed the band as the first act on his Posthuman Records.

10.   He has started to sign rock bands like Fuzz Bubble to his label.