Van Halen is a work in progress.
I think people forget even though we were labelled a synth band because of 'The Hurting,' but keyboards are not our native instruments. Roland's a guitar player and I'm a bass player.
I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.
When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.
I'm a huge Glenn Hughes fan.
The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.
An important part of being in a band is the rhythm section.
Peter Baltes was the best bassist I ever played with.
But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.
I have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched drummer.
Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.
My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.
Our bassist, Tim Staffell, was at art college with Frederick Bulsara, who changed his name to Freddie Mercury and joined the band on vocals after Tim left in 1970.
