Gary Cherone Quotes

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Gary Cherone

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 26, 1961

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

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It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.

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There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.

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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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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

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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 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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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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Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.

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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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They hated Sammy Hagar for 12 years and they hate him to this day.

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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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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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In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

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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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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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