I hoped that I would someday," said guitarist Wayne Sermon (bassist Ben McKee and drummer Dan Platzman round out the group). "I just didn't think I'd ever play with them again to be honest. Three of the band members met while "playing jazz together a lot" at the Berklee College of Music. "It was so important that we built that organic, independent fan base." "We had offers from those labels all throughout the years and we turned them down," he said. Lead singer Dan Reynolds said the group was "dead set" on being an independent act. They released four EPs and toured America. Imagine Dragons had been building a buzz on the music scene as an independent act before Alex da Kid got hold of them. The band currently has two songs in the Top 25 with "It's Time" and "Radioactive" and they are on a sold-out U.S. Imagine Dragons released its debut album, "Night Visions," in September and so far has reached gold status, selling more than 600,000 units, according to Nielsen SoundScan. So instead of using the alternative band to collaborate on the score by Bono and The Edge, Alex da Kid - the creator of Eminem and Rihanna's colossal hit "Love the Way You Lie" - immediately signed the Las Vegas-based foursome to his label imprint KIDinaKORNER Records, distributed through Interscope Records. There was just one problem: The demos they recorded were too good. "I thought they would be great to help me come up with ideas for U2," the Grammy-nominated English producer said.
When he first started working with Imagine Dragons, music producer Alex da Kid was looking for some inspiration for the Broadway musical, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."
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