Warrant Quotes
Jani's dedication in Dog Eat Dog:
"This album is dedicated to Joey ALLEN,
one of the most under-rated guitarists in rock today."
Joey's Philosophy:
"A good song is a good song. A good guitar player can make it better."
Joey on the influence of grunge:
"All the Seattle stuff gave me inspiration to not do it the way they did
it!"
Jerry on Warrant's alleged booing by Metallica fans
at the 1990 Rochester mini-fest:"I think a Metallica fan, when
he gets home and isn't around his buddies, probably slaps a Warrant
record on and says 'This is fucking rocking'."
Jerry's philosophy on coping with success:
"There's always gonna be five or ten people who are going to flip you the
bird. I laugh at them and go 'Oh, how's your band doing, pal? Still
playing in the garage? Fuck you'."
Jerry on worrying about drinking too much on the road:
"I was [worried] for a short while. But then I came off the road and said,
'This is gonna be the test'. And I found it really wasn't a problem for
me not to drink at all. I could go three or four days without a beer and
it wasn't bugging me. I wasn't thinking about it. So I don't think it'll
become a problem."
Jerry expounds further on Warrant's philosophy:
"We give a shit about a lot of things. We do shows for leukemia research,
for the military... we do a lot of things for our fans."
Steven on Warrant's change of image and sound in 1992:
"I think that if we were jumping on a bandwagon we'd be wearing flannel
shirts and doing the Seattle thing. This is just the kind of record that
would have come out of us this time around one way or another 'cause of
all the things that we've gone through -- we learned a lot from the past
two records.
"Our new look is a natural progression -- whether it comes across like
that, I really don't care."
Erik talks about the band's big break:
"I think Heaven is the song that got us signed. Jani would sing
the first verse and then we'd have a thousand kids out there singing ---
before the album was out or anything. It was pretty impressive."
Erik on the truncated 1991 tour with David Lee Roth:
"Roth was great, though. He'd given us a bottle of his Jack Daniels, 'cause
we didn't have any in our dressing room one night. When we got back from
England after the accident, Dave called Jani and said, 'Look, the way I
see, you guys owe me a bottle of Jack and a tour'."
Erik again, this time about trouble brewing on the double-bill tour
with Poison:
"A couple people in Poison's management firm didn't want Warrant
on the tour. They were totally against it. We went through hell getting
that tour, and then when we finally did get it, someone from the Poison
camp called our manager and said, 'Do you think that Jani would dye his
hair dark? Would he consider that? Because he does look a lot like Bret.'
"We were like, 'Are you out of your fucking mind?!' "
Jani on the guys' original glam-metal image:
"We were encouraged by the fact that that's what everyone was doing. And
it was a very big part of why we got signed. You know how it works. As
soon as one band breaks, the labels all go into that area and sign all
the other bands that are doing a similar thing. In our case, there were
quite a few bands doing a similar thing in the mid-80s --- lookwise, anyway,
although with different musical styles.
"So we did it. I admit it. But we're not doing it now. And I'm not
going to say I regret doing it. It was fun when we were doing it. And people
were digging it. Times change and so do your clothes. Big deal."
Credit: Chris Spahn
