Yesterday, HBO announced the cancellation of 1970s rock drama “Vinyl” after just one season. Ray Romano, who played a record executive named Zak Yankovich on the show, has revealed in an interview with News Corp Australia that the cancellation felt like “a knife in the guts.” In the interview, he said “Vinyl” was also an opportunity for him to reminisce about his younger days: “I went to the club that I started at when I was about 26. Then the music was from when I was a teenager...It was like a little bit of time travel. Yeah, it was fun.”

Romano added, “I was so happy to have a role like that, to be able to go to those places; I’ve never had an opportunity before like that.” That chance was able to come about, in part, because executive producer Martin Scorsese had never heard of Romano or his sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond.” As Romano said, “he was looking at me fresh” and not as “the character you were playing for 10 years.” Read the full interview here.

“Vinyl” was scheduled to return for a second season. Despite high expectations for the project, which was executive produced by Mick Jagger along with Scorsese, the show disappointed in the ratings. It was expensive to produce, and canceling the show will allow its executives to work on other projects. In April, showrunner Terence Winter left the show over creative differences.

Read “How ‘Vinyl’ and Lee Ranaldo Turned a Lost ’70s Act Into TV’s Next Great Fictional Band” on the Pitch.

Listen to Sturgill Simpson’s “Vinyl” theme song, “Sugar Daddy”: