Stephen Pearcy

Um, at that time.

So you had a vision of it rhythmically from you here and then... And then when a friend of mine kept hounding me, we were living in San Diego, we were playing big gigs.

I mean, Mickey Ratt was, you know, we had no competition.

Robin had his band Phenomenon.

Jakey Lee had his band Teaser.

Warren had his band Exciter, and then I had Mickey Ratt, and there were other bands that were kind of big, but Mickey Ratt kind of became a big band.

We played all the Golden Hall, Plaza Hall, Bing Crosby Hall.

We were playing in big places.

But nothing was happening, right?

So a friend of mine, I mean, you think about, wow, I want to be on a record, you know?

I want to record.

And to this day, I still record off the cassette or anything I can find, you know, preferably a cassette, you know, normal.

And I started doing that back then.

So a little off the track here.

So I kind of...

When a friend told me, you got to see this band in LA called Van Halen, I was like, all right, okay, okay.

Van Halen, another band, okay.

We had gone up there before and saw Quiet Riot and made trips here and there just to see.

But the day I went out by myself, I drove out by myself and I don't know if I brought gear or anything, a pocket of weed.

And I knew there was a backstage at the whiskey.