sentences:  The band took extensive vacations and Tyler and Perry were working with producer/songwriter Glen Ballard in the mid-1990s, writing, recording, and rehearsing songs, in sessions including ones in Miami, Florida.Some of the Columbia executives felt that since Tyler and Perry were working independently with Ballard in penning songs and that the entire band would not be working together for months at a time, that the band in whom they had a $50 million dollar investment in had the potential of breaking up.However Tyler and Perry were noted for writing songs together and then having the band record the songs during recording sessions.