area. By the summer of 1988, with Blasey, Hertweck, Joseph and Minarik now all out of college, the band relocated from Indiana into Pittsburgh. The Clarks closed out the 1980s playing at bars, clubs and college functions around Western Pennsylvania, heavily touring to promote themselves. Rising success (1991–99) In 1991, the band began recording their second album. A self-titled release, the album came out on August 1, 1991 on the indie Substitute Records label. "Penny on the Floor," penned by Blasey, was released as the album's main single. Thanks to heavy airplay of "Penny on the Floor" on the popular radio station 102.5 WDVE and promotion on Scott Paulsen and Jim Krenn's DVE Morning Show, the band reached an even broader audience in the region. More than 5,000 copies of The Clarks were sold in the Pittsburgh area. The four began recording a third album in 1993. To release the album, the band formed their own label, King Mouse Records. Initially scheduled to be released later that year, a delay in payment and a legal dispute with Aircraft Studios where the album was cut pushed the release back to June 30, 1994. Love Gone Sour, Suspicion, and Bad Debt begat the single "Cigarette," which (aside from the Clarks' home tri-state region of western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia and eastern Ohio) saw airplay from radio stations across the Northeastern United States. The album sold 5,000 copies within three months and went on to sell nearly 17,000. With this release, guitarist Robert Hertweck began using the stage name "Rob James," derived from his first and middle names. On the heels of the success of "Cigarette," lead vocalist Scott Blasey released his first solo album, the acoustic Don't Try This at Home, on the band's King Mouse label in 1995. The band's growing popularity did not go unnoticed by major label MCA Records, who inked the Clarks to a two-album deal in 1996. Working with Los Angeles producer Tim Bomba, the group recorded at the Club House studio in Germantown, New York—their first album to be produced away from Pittsburgh. MCA released Someday Maybe in the fall of 1996 with the intent of promoting "Stop!" and "Courtney" as the main singles. Unfortunately for the band, MCA instead decided to focus its energy in promoting Blink-182, neglecting to afford any substantial attention to the Clarks. To make matters worse, the label suffered financially in