Gary Cherone Quotes
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When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.
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You are in a state of mixing, and you just live with it. There is not one musician who is completely happy with a mix.
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I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
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I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.
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People know my name and that can get me in the door but on the same hand people know my name and that can have them shut the door.