The original version felt like a really great album, but we just thought we could use another lead single.” “Over the course of our time with Sony (parent of Columbia), we probably had 10 release dates,” says the band’s manager, Phil McIntyre, who credits the delay to several high-level executive changes at Sony (including Greenberg’s departure) and the decision - “reached by both label and management,” McIntyre says - to “go back and put together a couple more tracks. Yet the band’s album wasn’t appearing in stores. Lead single “Mandy” performed well at “TRL,” and the Jonases hit the road, playing shows with Jesse McCartney and the Veronicas. So Michael Mangini and I went into the studio with the Jonas Brothers and did it.” “I liked the idea of putting together this little garage-rock band and making a record that nodded to the Ramones and ‘70s punk. “But his voice stuck out, so I met with him and found out he had two brothers.” This was familiar territory for Greenberg - he’s the guy who discovered Hanson.
“I didn’t like the record he’d made,” Greenberg says. Included was a solo disc by Nick, a former Broadway baby with “Les Miserables” and “Beauty and the Beast” on his resume. The Jonas Brothers - Nick, 14, Joe, 17, and Kevin, 19 - were born as a band in 2005, when incoming Columbia Records president Steve Greenberg was handed a stack of CDs by Columbia artists with whom he wasn’t familiar. Though the pop-punk boy band is riding high at iTunes and Radio Disney on the strength of “Year 3000,” the brothers have taken an unexpectedly circuitous route to success. NEW YORK (Billboard) - At the Jonas Brothers’ family home in New Jersey, a wooden sign over the bathroom door reads “Patience is a virtue.” It’s a lesson the Brothers are lucky to have learned.
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