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Stadium Rock
- A book of interviews |
A
look inside Classic Rock Revisited From The Vault - Series I -Stadium Rock
..."The
dearest and most precious thing in my life was being in that band. It was really
taken away from me...." Dennis DeYoung - Styx
..."Instead of
making a new record, I joined Van Halen. When I joined that band, the success
exploded, and I was on that trip where I did whatever I wanted. I
said I would dress how I wanted, write the kind of lyrics I wanted,
and act on stage how I wanted. I said that if somebody didn’t like it,
then fuck ‘em. My self-confidence started building and building. By the time I
left Van Halen, I was fearless...." - Sammy Hagar
..."It was a
very daring album – we might have bordered on idiocy. It took over two years of
my life to put that thing together. It was a massive undertaking,
and I really had no idea, going into it, that it
would be that massive."... - Phil Ehart - Kansas
..."Part of
the whole trauma of going through that period of the 80s is that I had to beat
an injunction to release an album. They tried to block the release of Third
Stage. I had to beat the lawsuit..." Tom Scholz of Boston
Jeb: Is it urban legend,
or is it the truth that Aerosmith really broke up over “spilled milk”?
Joe: That was
the straw – no pun intended – it was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I
have always thought that you could not script this stuff any better. It was
really the last thing that really kind of did it. I remember it as clear as
day, one of the wives bumped into the other one and spilled milk,
and..." - Joe Perry- Aerosmith
..."It was
great. We were desperate to get in the studio. We finally got the final jigsaw
into place, when we found Boz. It just locked together. We had a
lot of material and were gung ho to get into the studio."...- Paul Rodgers
..."When I was
wearing Levis, a T-shirt and my tails, that was cool,
but before that – holy mackerel, what was I thinking?";;; - Steve Perry -
Journey
;;;"That song is not lifted from
“All Right Now” from Free, but it is a tip of the hat to them.
When I did it, I said that I loved Free and that I loved Paul
Rodgers. I said all of that in the first interview that I ever did about that
song. It was a tip of the hat to Free."... - Steve Miller
..."Five
years ago, we were working on a new album, when my
health began failing. I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor. For
the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my
brain was not functioning..." - Lou Gramm
- Foreigner
..."My own
personal life was a mess right then, and I was partying at a
dangerous pace. I was too deep in my own problems to realize that Kevin was
having some of his own."... - Neal Doughty
- REO Speedwagon
"...By this
time, we were late for our plane. I walked over to the station
wagon, and I took a hammer out, and I bashed the
window in. I pulled up the lock and in we get. We are trying to get the back of
the station unlocked. The key doesn’t work in the lock....." - Roger Earl -
Foghat
..."In
Michigan, “Little Miss Dangerous” is played every day. When that comes on the
radio, you want to drop pants and stick your d&%k in the cigarette lighter.
That’s the baddest grindingest, sexiest musical statement in the history of f*%@ing
sonics..." - Ted Nugent
