Kevin Cronin

John got it to the band.

They were smart to do that.

They liked what they heard and that was the song I think that got me the gig back.

I knew that if I... Because they flew me out to L.A.

Because that's where they were living.

And I knew that the only way it was going to work is if I were treated as an equal.

Because I never was.

Yeah, it was in the back of my mind that I wasn't going to be... When I first joined the band, Rich Rath would have his microphone right downstage at the far lip of the stage, but my microphone couldn't be that far up.

So I'd be singing lead.

If people really knew how bands really are... Do you know that back in those days, Gary, every night after the show, he would... The audience would leave, and of course the ground is littered with beer bottles and trash and stuff.

Gary would come around to the front of the stage, and that was back in the day of the flash cubes.

Every camera had a little...

a flash cube with four flashlights.

It would rotate, and after your fourth picture, you took it out and discarded it.

He would come and look at the front of the stage at each mic position because he wanted to make sure that there were the most flash cubes in front of him.

And they're always... That's a new one.

I heard them all, but that's a new one.

And there always were, and I knew it.

But I was determined that I was going to...

You showed him.