"In the spring [of 1981], the Project stated working at my house on the new record. Then we moved over to the Wherehouse, where we developed songs by Charlie Farren ("East Coast, West Coast") and David Hull ("Dirty Little Things" and "Buzz Buzz"). We cut a version of Elvis's Heartbreak Hotel," intended as a single. I took a shuffle I'd been working on and turned it into "South Station Blues." The record, originally titled Soldier of Fortune, was produced by Bruce Botnick, who had worked with the Doors as an engineer and had produced their last great album, L.A. Woman. We brought the Record Plant's truck back up to Boston, parked it on Washington Street in front of the Boston Opera House, and cut the album inside the elegant but decrepit old theater."