Gary Cherone

Musician

1961-07-26

Quotes by Gary Cherone

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

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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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• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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