A Quote by Jason Bonham
I never imagined in my wildest dreams when I was 17 watching Van Halen at a Donington Park rock festival and seeing Sammy Hagar later on when I was in the United States playing that I would end up with a band of guys I bought albums of.
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That song ["Don't Tell Me"] didn't take us anywhere, and I know why now. It wasn't what Van Halen fans wanted. It showed the darkness of Van Halen, and basically the end of the band.
I do remember being a kid and hearing Van Halen. My dad was always playing Van Halen in the car.
I was even more of a Hagar fan when he was just Hagar and not Van Hagar.
I never in my wildest dreams could have imagined I would be on TV.
I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have turned pro at 17.
Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that I would become the Bachelorette.
Just about every rock band and every guitar player from 1964 to 1984. To me, that's the golden period of rock. From the first Beatles album hitting America to the last Van Halen album with David Lee Roth. That's where all my favorite rock exists.
Greg Ginn was certainly a huge influence on my guitar playing. I put him up there with people like Eddie Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen changed everything; I don't necessarily like everything he did, but he definitely changed everything.
I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
I've heard my share of Van Halen. I never liked rock.
I think all my albums have concentrated on songs, I've never taken the typical Van Halen route to try and become a guitar hero.
I had never in my wildest dreams imagined that I would actually be singing on a top 10 Billboard song.
A lot of people ask how I ended up doing classical music given that I'm in a rock band. The truth is that it's the other way around. I was trained as a classical musician and then started playing in a rock band later.
Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.
Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.
At some point I decided I didn't want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Halen and I didn't really like Van Halen.
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