In just 3 minutes, I've come to the conclusion (first time seeing him in an interview) that Gary Cherone is a good person - which is more important than most things.
He truly is! The whole band is. After the band stood for a couple of hours of 100 meet and greet photos, they had to encounter me 😅 the last person on line. My phones flash wouldn't behave and we had to take the pic over and over. They were so patient. Nuno graciously signed a pic I had printed of him and Malala from the Nobel Ceremony where he performed with Steven Tyler. I mentioned that I had a distant relative who was a Nobel Laureate and Gary engaged me in conversation about him. He knew exactly who he was and asked some pretty specific questions about him. That got the attention of the other guys. Gary is very thoughtful and insightful and that comes through in his writing.
VH3 isn't that bad . I saw them live . One of the best shows I saw he did a great job . First time Van Halen came to Anchorage and Alaska . Sam wouldn't play up here with the band . It was his call not to play .
@@nelsonschumacher7956 I'd like to hear the songs for the next album that was planned . It was odd reading an interview that Ed fought Warner Bros for keeping Gary in the band til Gary showed up wearing an Evel Knievel/Elvis Presley tacky-type jumpsuit .
There's a few, and I mean a few (like 2 or 3) "good to ok" songs on that album. The rest was obvious that ed was really forcing some super different stuff on us
@WS6 1997 yes, true. But the vast majority of VH fans totally overlooked this album, simply because it wasn’t like anything they’d done before, which is sad, because there are some great songs on here, and Eddie had some amazing tones, and playing on this album. “Different stuff”, yes, but that doesn’t mean it was bad. Severely underrated VH album, IMO. *for the record, my favorite VH album is II.
I was really looking forward to VHIII being a huge Extreme and VH fan. The problem I had is it didn't sound like a Van Halen record. The music didn't have that poppy, edgy and catchy sound you would expect from VH. The vocals sounded mushy??? No great hooks (an Eddie signature) I do not blame Gary for that record. Nothing leaves 5150 Studios without EVH's stamp of approval. It sounded like Ed wanted to reinvent the band...again. Van Halen 3.0
@@loveiseternity or howard stern who does that Annoyingly every 30 seconds " oh no, people will forget I am here " and Joe Rogan who's just high and happy to hear his own voice.
An amazing singer that can say he’s one of three men in the entire world to sing for one of the greatest bands ever…… and no one can take it away from him.
"Without You" was the one standout song from that album. One of my favorite VH songs in fact. Wish they would have recorded another one to see what they could have done.
One of the most underrated singers of all time. Love Extreme! One of my favorite performances was Extreme on the Freddie Mercury Tribute show. Gary was UNBELIEVABLE!!
Gary Cherone is one of the most under rated front men in rock history. Just look back at the Music the Man has done! Incredible back catalogue and yet he is so humble. Congratulations to Extreme on another epic album.
Gary Cherone is an awesome vocalist but comes across as a genuinely good guy with no ego. He actually got to perform with two of the best guitarists of all time! Great interview, and I just became a new subscriber!
I met him on the Pornograffitti tour and he was a really nice guy, as was Nuno. A friend of mine was working in a theatre as a lighting tech at the time and told me how Nuno gave him a guitar lesson and even called him out of the blue to wish him a happy birthday! Great guys.
I always loved Van Halen AND Extreme..I think Gary did a terrific job on Van Halen 3. Especially "From Afar" "Without You":and "A Year to the Day". Cherone is the man!!
Gary is a class act for being as appreciative and respectful of his time with and relationship(s) with Van Halen and its individual members as he is in this interview. Sammy should take note.
Gary doesn't get enough love when it comes to VH. It's always Dave or Sammy. It was great that Gary wanted to do songs from both eras and he sounded great.
Because it was the worst Van Halen album now that said they recorded a second album together but never was released which apparently had a much more distinct VH sound that we loved. Michael Anthony interview with Eddie Trunk talks on it
What a guy, Gary Cherone. Changed the world with his magnificent voice and music. Gave it 110% every time. I mean really he is a icon,, a pioneer, an inspiration and a beacon of light for us navigating life and music. We love him, he is ours forever! Legend. Highly underrated too imo.
I just wished Gary and Ed made more music, 3 is greatly under rated, I loved it, It has Edge to it, Raw, In your Face, Gary sung his ass off! It gets better with age...
Gary got punched for the commercial "failure" of 3...Without having that data in front of me, as a kid, I listened to vh3 and the more I listened to it, the more I felt it. Its an album with many layers. a box within a box, different details. I personally love, year to day, josephina, one i want. without you. Fire in the hole the guitar has the Drop to hell bridge, it has like 3 different tunings within the same song, it's crazy. New world with that beautiful acoustic harmonics and piano. I recommend everyone to listen to it again now that ed is no longer with us. Thank you Gary, respect
Gary Cherone is One of My All Time Favorite Singers !!!❤ The Guy has Some Phenomenal Pipes on Him !!!❤ I personally Loved him on Van Halen lll !!!!❤❤❤ He's an Amazing Singer and a Fantastic Guy !!!❤ Much Respect to Gary Cherone !!!❤❤
Putting Gary in there was a genius move......it was judged a failure but it actually was a huge success. Its very convenient to forget that even most diehard fans of most classic rock bands had abandoned them during thos period and even the biggest names struggled to sell tickets and albums. Grunge killed it.....the recovery was still years away
The band Extreme was one I wore out on cassette and CD. I hope this new album has the same success it seems to be having off of just the one song, Rise. Nuno is amazing and I've always loved Gary's voice.
While I'm disappointed about how the sales of records/CDs, etc. have died, it's great how social media can give musicians access to people that wouldn't have been possible prior. Gary is a class act.
Van Halen #3 is a classic, so underrated. Gary did a good job with Eddie being a addict and his hold over the whole band. He did a good job. Would love to hear the unrelsleed songs.
Gary comes off as such a great guy. I can't wait for the new Extreme album. I'm hoping they hit many cities on tour after it's released. It's been far too long since I got to see Extreme in concert.
Gary was in a no win situation and gave it a punchers chance. It's actually a solid album at least in my opinion. Super happy for the guys finding this recent resurgence, awesome to see!
This was an incredible interview. You are the best person to interview anyone in the VH sphere! They seem more open to taking to you about VH stuff than to anyone else. Keep it up! 🤘
Gary is a gentleman and a major talent and one of the best front men ever. Also he's humble as fuck and if he had a persona he was selling like other front men rather than demanding to be himself, maybe more of us would appreciate all hes done as much as his partner, Nuno.
Van Halen should release a remastered Van Halen 3 with a bonus disc of the demo material of the follow-up. I think this would be a fan favorite and sell well
I saw Extreme at The Channel in Boston just as they were breaking out and it may have been their last club gig. Gary was, and is, one of the best rock frontmen of all time.
I so appreciate Gary Cherone as a singer and as a member of Van Halen. Had Ed been in a better headspace and the album had a guy like Bruce Fairbairn producing, we would have gotten a very strong record. Great ideas on this record.
I think Gary is such a great guy, and an awesome musician. And I honestly really enjoyed Van Halen III, I loved that time in my life and in Van Halen's sound. I believe it was unfair, many people's reception of Gary, but me personally I love him a lot. I think he has class and so much talent.
Great interview!!!! I remember when VH3 was coming out. It was definitely a big deal at the time. They announced that they were going to do an album launch live on the radio. They had an MC guy doing intros with all 4 members talking about the new material, music videos, etc. I recorded that launch on cassette tape. I believe they only played 4-5 songs off the album. They eventually came to Houston at the Cynthia Woods pavilion. It was a fantastic show. Completely blown away by how good Gary sounded in the band. VH3 is definitely not everyone's fav. If you happen to be a guitar player, then you know exactly how good the album really is. I have a feeling that Ed's drinking started to resurface and that is what led to Gary's departure. Just guessing though. Would have been nice to have had at least one or more albums with Gary. Cheers!!
Walked into a mall while working in Boston. Went in specifically to check out the latest edition of the VH Inside Magazine and on my way to the bookstore I glanced over and told my buddy that I thought I just saw Anthony Keidis from the Chili Peppers. Anyway I walked into the bookstore and after reading the new VH mag I began to look around and don’t I run right into Gary Cherone! So who I thought was Anthony Keidis was actually Gary… I told him I was there specifically to check out the new VH mag and that now I was bumping into him. We shot the shit for about 15 minutes. From everything to his time in VH and post VH, he was very personable. He was shopping for his parents Christmas presents. Great guy. Classic VH is my spirit animal!!! Lol.. The lion with the sunglasses!!!!! 😎
I read that they had about 3/4 of the follow up to "III" totally finished and in the can. That's probably why Gary is being so coy here. He knows that there ls more than just a few rough demos. When execs at Warner's came in and said that they weren't happy with what they heard and wanted the band to go back in and start from scratch. I don't know who they were producing the tracks with, but Ed got frustrated and pulled the plug on the whole thing, told Gary that it wasn't going to work out and sent him on his way. That was the beginning of Ed's deep depression and when he fell off the wagon. Such a shame too. Maybe Al and Wolfgang will find some time to dig out that stuff, have it remastered and put it out like Led Zeppelin did with "Coda". I'm sure there's some stuff with Sam and Dave that went on the cutting room floor too, that could be added as well.
@@detroitdiezel7856why couldn’t they just let the material be? Why interfere and step on Ed’s toes? He was a huge star for over 20 years at that point!!!!
@@GuitarGangsterArmi because that's what big record companies do. They want to make money and sell albums, and if they feel that one of their artists isn't producing material that will benefit the company, they'll refuse to release it. Just read up on the fights that Prince had with Warner Brothers Records and George Michael had with his label, Sony.
@@detroitdiezel7856 AND VAN HALEN IV WAS BORN!!!!! WOLFIE, AL, MIKEY, AND GARY!!!! JUST KIDDING. WOLFIE HAS TO GO ON HIS OWN OR HE'LL BE A COVER BAND PLAYING HIS DADS MUSIC FOREVER. A REALLY COOL COVER BAND, BUT A COVER BAND NONETHELESS.
Great interview, Jeremy. I love how down to earth and wise Gary is. I sure as hell hope they don’t release the whole album on Spotify, though. These guys need to make money too…
Just Interview Jeremy, I got to Meet and hang with Gary when he was in VH in Australia in 98 and he was such a great guy. My band and Vh had a photo taken together and years later I meet up with Gary again in Australia and was able to give him a copy of that photo which he loved as he had never seen it and he said he was going to ring Ed and tell him about the photo. I'm not sure if he did but I'm glad he has it now, now that Eddie has passed.
When VHIII came out I was working in a Sam Goody and we had to play it on heavy rotation. I went from totally unwilling to consider it as a VH album to one of my favorites.
I actually liked VHIII and won the album from the local radio station who was giving away the CD to the third caller after playing a new cut from the album (Fire In The Hole, I believe). Gary was awesome live, and it was such a fresh experience for people like myself who were too young to see VH with Dave, and never got to hear the Dave stuff live with Sammy. I'd love to see WB or the VH camp release some of these old songs someday...
I was fortunate to meet Gary and Nuno and everyone in Extreme along time ago. I was hanging out with some people from Malden mass and he took me to their band practice just before they released mother don't want to go to school today and they were all so cool great guys well we were all still pretty much kids back then. I honestly think k VHIII is an awesome album I hate when people bash it and bash Gary for being in Van Halen. He in my opinion was the right singer at the wrong time. I think he said it perfectly if they had did a tour before doing the album it would have been received better. I was happy to see Gary with Van Halen at the Boston Garden it was a great show. Thank you Gary for your contribution to the world of Rock n Roll. Can't wait to get the new Extreme album
I saw them twice this month at both their London shows, on the 19th Gary and Nuno came and shook hands with all the fans in the front row, myself included
I never saw Van Halen live but have been a fan since Diver Down. I did see Extreme live on the 3 Sides To Every Story tour at the James L Knight Center in Miami, FL. I rode my bike to that concert from my Dad’s house. It was a great concert and it was fun being there. Good vibes for sure. They rocked the house. I have the tour book.
Gary is super cool. Met him once shortly after their first album. He was totally approachable and very down to earth. Extreme even in the club days was terrifyingly good! Tight band, professional and very confident in what they were doing. Awesome interview!
Been a Van Halen fan since the late 80s and an Extreme fan since I heard Pornograffiti soon after it came out. I saw Extreme in Sydney in '93 and saw VH on their first ever Australian tour with Gary Cherone in Newcastle in '98. Both were amazing. My favourite singer from one of my favourite bands joining another of my favourites bands of all time, what's not to love?
I totally agree with Gary that the record needs to be remixed. The lead vocals production was horrible. Gary got a raw deal on this album. I would LOVE to hear a remix. The songs are great.
I saw the VH 3 tour. The night I saw them, I think Mikey and Gary stole the show. I mean EVH was great, but you could tell he was battling some stuff and Alex had his neck brace on and was recovering from his injury and they sounded great, but their energy wasn't nearly as high as Gary and Michaels. Gary sang all the VH songs great.
Gary Cherone honestly had THE best voice out of the three lead singers for VH. However, somehow it didn’t vibe. There’s a great video of Gary and Eddie singing Josephine on a Japanese variety type show. It’s so good. It’s hard to find anything on RUclips with Eddie’s voice isolated. Eddie had a great voice.
Dude you are an EXCELLENT interviewer. This is the first thing I have watched with you and I am so impressed. You never get in the way of the interviewee. Such an underrated skill. Automatic subscribe!
Great interview, really enjoyed it. And I would absolutely love to hear a remixed VHIII and any new material. I’m a big fan of that album, but I agree it is a “harsh” sounding album. A remix would really bring it to the next level and get it some new fans.
Back in 84, I walked into gym class and to my surprise, Gary was the substitute gym teacher. I was was like WTF…. Long hair, concert short, ripped jeans, and HIM cock blocking all the girls. True story
Gary is one of the greatest front man ever. Saw him 3 weeks ago and he was fire. Met him after the show and e really just an awesome guy and gentleman.
For me the best guitar Eddie has played in this album- I think he played things never heard in previous albums. It was a great album everyone in it was in top form.
I have always loved Gary's voice and while 3 wasn't VH's best album, it was a refreshing album. The albums previous were mainly just party songs with very few deep meaning. Gary's lyrics told a story and addressed societial issues of the time. I would love to hear 3 remixed because it is a very underrated album that had so much potential. I listen to it a few times a year.
Thank you for telling us about the new album at the beginning, I’ve just pre-ordered it on CD AND VINYL! Great stories from Gary, he likes you. Cheers Jeremy! - R
If you have the opportunity, go see Extreme live. Yes, Nuno is underrated. Gary is underestimated. Pat, the bass player, is not widely known and deserves to be. Kevin, the drummer, is the heartbeat of the band and the crowd....you can literally feel it. All four together create a real live show that is beyond belief.
Ill never forget. I went with a concert with my cousin back in 1988 It was at a high school football field in Hudson MA . We went to see this band Extreme. never heard of em. anyway. They were second or third on the bill with other acts from the Boston area. They were great. Met all the guys and actually got Paul Gearys autograph and talked to the band a bit in passing . Pat was walking around in the crowd. Never forget that day. They were a class act then and a class act now. EXTREME!!!! oh.. Nuno was kicking ass way back then. mesmerizing. Great interview
We had a whole chat about his love for Da Coop in the full interview, watch it on Spotify or listen wherever you get podcast! Look up “The Jeremy White Show” 🤘🏻
I got that bitch on vinyl…greatalbum 1978…Alice kinda shunned it because he was going thru alcohol addiction and went away and this album was born afterwards ..it’s a a concept album and all the songs are about people in a insane asylum and Bernie taupin (Elton johns lyricist)wrote it…it’s the best of Alice in my opinion.
had the great pleasure of spending some time with Gary, Eddie, Michael and Alex (and their families) in 1998, wonderful memories to look back on - and all were gracious and loved it here in NZ :)
Cherone is such a good guy. I'd love to hear that unreleased material with him and Van Halen.
yep me too with all of those 20 who liked your post ) never gonna happend unfortunately
Amen
I'm sure it sucks lol. I mean let's be honest
he looks like a compost heap
Gary rocks
I have so much respect for Gary, he is a class act through and through. He doesn't get nearly the credit he deserves for his time in Van Halen.
In just 3 minutes, I've come to the conclusion (first time seeing him in an interview) that Gary Cherone is a good person - which is more important than most things.
He’s the best!! You can check out the full video interview on Spotify or listen to the episode where ever you get Podcasts. Hope you subscribe! 🤘🏻
@@JeremyWhiteShow Thank you so much.
He truly is! The whole band is. After the band stood for a couple of hours of 100 meet and greet photos, they had to encounter me 😅 the last person on line. My phones flash wouldn't behave and we had to take the pic over and over. They were so patient. Nuno graciously signed a pic I had printed of him and Malala from the Nobel Ceremony where he performed with Steven Tyler. I mentioned that I had a distant relative who was a Nobel Laureate and Gary engaged me in conversation about him. He knew exactly who he was and asked some pretty specific questions about him. That got the attention of the other guys.
Gary is very thoughtful and insightful and that comes through in his writing.
@@pittstaffio Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
@@LoyalOpposition yw! Sorry for the long reply. But it is so rare to see/meet someone so down-to-earth who is so talented in the industry.
Gary is such a thoughtful and intelligent man, and an excellent frontman!
Genuine dude and I can respect that. Damn good singer too, him and Nuno are killing it again.
Thanks for watching! Lots more rock and VH content on the channel 🤘🏻
VH3 isn't that bad . I saw them live . One of the best shows I saw he did a great job . First time Van Halen came to Anchorage and Alaska . Sam wouldn't play up here with the band . It was his call not to play .
@@akfreed6949
yep, the first time they came to australia is with gary, so for that reason alone he is immortal
still my favourite vh singer though
@@nelsonschumacher7956 I'd like to hear the songs for the next album that was planned . It was odd reading an interview that Ed fought Warner Bros for keeping Gary in the band til Gary showed up wearing an Evel Knievel/Elvis Presley tacky-type jumpsuit .
I saw VH live twice with Gary and they, and he, absolutely slayed both times. I frankly like the VHIII record.
There's a few, and I mean a few (like 2 or 3) "good to ok" songs on that album. The rest was obvious that ed was really forcing some super different stuff on us
@WS6 1997 yes, true. But the vast majority of VH fans totally overlooked this album, simply because it wasn’t like anything they’d done before, which is sad, because there are some great songs on here, and Eddie had some amazing tones, and playing on this album. “Different stuff”, yes, but that doesn’t mean it was bad. Severely underrated VH album, IMO. *for the record, my favorite VH album is II.
@@King5150Ed he wasnt forcing anything
Van Halen lll = GARBAGE
I was really looking forward to VHIII being a huge Extreme and VH fan. The problem I had is it didn't sound like a Van Halen record. The music didn't have that poppy, edgy and catchy sound you would expect from VH. The vocals sounded mushy??? No great hooks (an Eddie signature) I do not blame Gary for that record. Nothing leaves 5150 Studios without EVH's stamp of approval. It sounded like Ed wanted to reinvent the band...again. Van Halen 3.0
I have such respect for an interview that doesn’t interrupt the person they are interviewing.
Yeah - this is important to me to. It's very rare and quite noticeable. Respect!
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Or the interviewer who thinks they're the celebrity, like Eddy Trunk.
@@loveiseternity or howard stern who does that Annoyingly every 30 seconds " oh no, people will forget I am here " and Joe Rogan who's just high and happy to hear his own voice.
@@loveiseternity trunk is terrible
An amazing singer that can say he’s one of three men in the entire world to sing for one of the greatest bands ever…… and no one can take it away from him.
Yuuupp! His performance on the new EXTREME album is insane… make sure you pre order it!
Don't forget Mitch Malloy. I'm not a VH expert, but it was interesting to hear his story.
"Without You" was the one standout song from that album. One of my favorite VH songs in fact. Wish they would have recorded another one to see what they could have done.
One of the most underrated singers of all time. Love Extreme! One of my favorite performances was Extreme on the Freddie Mercury Tribute show. Gary was UNBELIEVABLE!!
He’s the man!!
Yeah that medley was insane.
I was there the excitement was off the scale. Extreme totally won the band's section. :)
@@JeremyWhiteShow 3 side to every story was the best thing they did.
Gary is such a kind, intelligent dude. So thoughtful in his answers. I love he said "To me, that is sacred ground."
Gary Cherone is one of the most under rated front men in rock history. Just look back at the Music the Man has done! Incredible back catalogue and yet he is so humble. Congratulations to Extreme on another epic album.
Look at Gary’s eyes. Those are the eyes of insight. Intelligence. Intrigue. The guys a deep thinker. You hear it in his craft
Yeah, lyrics like “rinse cup spit. Your brain has decavities …” deep stuff.
"Hole Hearted" is still one of my personal favorites from Extreme to this day. I was 6 years old when it was released. I'm now 38. Man time flies.
Do something you've never done or go somewhere next year you'd never other wise like Portugal Spain Switzerland etc You'll wish you did at 48.
"A Year to the Day," especially the live version, will always be a favorite!
The acoustic version of Josephina from Japan is also great.
Saw them at MSG. It was Unbelievable performance🎉
EVH's solo on that live version is my absolute favorite.
I love how keyed Gary is to the questions, so thoughtful on his answers, nothing canned.
Gary Cherone is an awesome vocalist but comes across as a genuinely good guy with no ego. He actually got to perform with two of the best guitarists of all time! Great interview, and I just became a new subscriber!
I met him on the Pornograffitti tour and he was a really nice guy, as was Nuno. A friend of mine was working in a theatre as a lighting tech at the time and told me how Nuno gave him a guitar lesson and even called him out of the blue to wish him a happy birthday! Great guys.
@@SimonLloydGuitar awesome!
I always loved Van Halen AND Extreme..I think Gary did a terrific job on Van Halen 3. Especially "From Afar" "Without You":and "A Year to the Day". Cherone is the man!!
You’re such a great interviewer! And you get the best guests as well 🤘🏼
Gary is a class act. I speak from meeting him on a few occasions. Nothing phoney about him. The new Extreme album is gonna blow people's minds.
It's their best.
Gary is a class act for being as appreciative and respectful of his time with and relationship(s) with Van Halen and its individual members as he is in this interview.
Sammy should take note.
Gary doesn't get enough love when it comes to VH. It's always Dave or Sammy. It was great that Gary wanted to do songs from both eras and he sounded great.
Because it was the worst Van Halen album now that said they recorded a second album together but never was released which apparently had a much more distinct VH sound that we loved. Michael Anthony interview with Eddie Trunk talks on it
@@ShootersShitzShow I would rather listen to Gary sing the Dave songs.
That's because Van Halen 3 absolutely sucked. I'm a huge Van Halen fan and I've tried to listen to that album but it is just terrible.
@@alexn4843 come on be real honestly
@@HAMMERHEAD-g3h fully fully agree worst album ever made
What a guy, Gary Cherone. Changed the world with his magnificent voice and music. Gave it 110% every time. I mean really he is a icon,, a pioneer, an inspiration and a beacon of light for us navigating life and music. We love him, he is ours forever! Legend. Highly underrated too imo.
Gary is the common thread between two of my favorite bands! Wishing Extreme all success in the upcoming release!🤘
New EXTREME album is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥
Awesome Love Gary Cherone and Extreme . I loved Van Halen 3
I just wished Gary and Ed made more music, 3 is greatly under rated, I loved it, It has Edge to it, Raw, In your Face, Gary sung his ass off! It gets better with age...
Don't hear the edge or in your face.. seems quite the.opposite to me....it was just odd and boring
@@RtroyD Could be you just have shitty taste and poor hearing...
For me Year To The Day it's one of the best tracks Van Halen has ever produced in its history.
Gary Cherone seems like a great guy and entering Van Halen when he did was an impossible situation
As a fan since 1978, I can truly say that Mikey and Gary were the two most stand-up guys VH ever had.
Gary got punched for the commercial "failure" of 3...Without having that data in front of me, as a kid, I listened to vh3 and the more I listened to it, the more I felt it. Its an album with many layers. a box within a box, different details. I personally love, year to day, josephina, one i want. without you. Fire in the hole the guitar has the Drop to hell bridge, it has like 3 different tunings within the same song, it's crazy. New world with that beautiful acoustic harmonics and piano. I recommend everyone to listen to it again now that ed is no longer with us. Thank you Gary, respect
Gary Cherone is One of My All Time Favorite Singers !!!❤ The Guy has Some Phenomenal Pipes on Him !!!❤ I personally Loved him on Van Halen lll !!!!❤❤❤ He's an Amazing Singer and a Fantastic Guy !!!❤ Much Respect to Gary Cherone !!!❤❤
Great Interview. You can tell how much his time in VH meant and means to him.
Absolutely LOVED 3!!! Would love to hear the rest of the stuff they didn't put out!! Gary is a magnificent guy!
Gary's awesome. Always has been. Just a genuine, good person.
Putting Gary in there was a genius move......it was judged a failure but it actually was a huge success. Its very convenient to forget that even most diehard fans of most classic rock bands had abandoned them during thos period and even the biggest names struggled to sell tickets and albums. Grunge killed it.....the recovery was still years away
Very underated great vocalist and songwriter
I’m not surprised by how awesome this interview is. Well done brother Jeremy.
Thanks for asking the real questions, and tactfully pushing for the real answers!
Now that was a great interview. You asked some really good questions and Gary was great with the answers. Loved the stories.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks Gary and Jeremy for this interview! I would love to hear these VH songs as would the rest of the world. RISE is the shit! Love to all! 🤘
Gary is a great guy and he was great live to play stuff from both prior versions of the band- really good setlists!
Agreed!
@@JeremyWhiteShow Where'd you get those inner ear monitors???
The band Extreme was one I wore out on cassette and CD. I hope this new album has the same success it seems to be having off of just the one song, Rise. Nuno is amazing and I've always loved Gary's voice.
Gary is a class act. Always has, always will be
While I'm disappointed about how the sales of records/CDs, etc. have died, it's great how social media can give musicians access to people that wouldn't have been possible prior. Gary is a class act.
Van Halen #3 is a classic, so underrated. Gary did a good job with Eddie being a addict and his hold over the whole band. He did a good job.
Would love to hear the unrelsleed songs.
Gary comes off as such a great guy. I can't wait for the new Extreme album. I'm hoping they hit many cities on tour after it's released. It's been far too long since I got to see Extreme in concert.
seeing them tonight; I cannot WAIT
Gary was in a no win situation and gave it a punchers chance. It's actually a solid album at least in my opinion. Super happy for the guys finding this recent resurgence, awesome to see!
This was an incredible interview. You are the best person to interview anyone in the VH sphere! They seem more open to taking to you about VH stuff than to anyone else. Keep it up! 🤘
Wow, thank you!! I’ve been trying to get Sammy on the show but his publicist just won’t respond to me anymore. Maybe some day!
Gary is a gentleman and a major talent and one of the best front men ever. Also he's humble as fuck and if he had a persona he was selling like other front men rather than demanding to be himself, maybe more of us would appreciate all hes done as much as his partner, Nuno.
Van Halen should release a remastered Van Halen 3 with a bonus disc of the demo material of the follow-up. I think this would be a fan favorite and sell well
I saw Extreme at The Channel in Boston just as they were breaking out and it may have been their last club gig. Gary was, and is, one of the best rock frontmen of all time.
I so appreciate Gary Cherone as a singer and as a member of Van Halen. Had Ed been in a better headspace and the album had a guy like Bruce Fairbairn producing, we would have gotten a very strong record. Great ideas on this record.
I think Gary is such a great guy, and an awesome musician. And I honestly really enjoyed Van Halen III, I loved that time in my life and in Van Halen's sound. I believe it was unfair, many people's reception of Gary, but me personally I love him a lot. I think he has class and so much talent.
Great interview!!!! I remember when VH3 was coming out. It was definitely a big deal at the time. They announced that they were going to do an album launch live on the radio. They had an MC guy doing intros with all 4 members talking about the new material, music videos, etc. I recorded that launch on cassette tape. I believe they only played 4-5 songs off the album. They eventually came to Houston at the Cynthia Woods pavilion. It was a fantastic show. Completely blown away by how good Gary sounded in the band. VH3 is definitely not everyone's fav. If you happen to be a guitar player, then you know exactly how good the album really is. I have a feeling that Ed's drinking started to resurface and that is what led to Gary's departure. Just guessing though. Would have been nice to have had at least one or more albums with Gary. Cheers!!
I've watched Van Halen live from Sydney about 100 times! I always enjoyed how seeing how tight the band was at that time.
And that was only their 6th show of the tour (I went to the 2nd one, Auckland NZ)
I was at Sydney Canberra n Newcastle. I'm on the panama thumbnail on youtube
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Walked into a mall while working in Boston. Went in specifically to check out the latest edition of the VH Inside Magazine and on my way to the bookstore I glanced over and told my buddy that I thought I just saw Anthony Keidis from the Chili Peppers. Anyway I walked into the bookstore and after reading the new VH mag I began to look around and don’t I run right into Gary Cherone! So who I thought was Anthony Keidis was actually Gary… I told him I was there specifically to check out the new VH mag and that now I was bumping into him. We shot the shit for about 15 minutes. From everything to his time in VH and post VH, he was very personable. He was shopping for his parents Christmas presents. Great guy. Classic VH is my spirit animal!!! Lol.. The lion with the sunglasses!!!!! 😎
Gary is in top 3 of lead singers...Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger and Gary Cherone...all brilliant vocally and showmanship
Didn't they have a whole album pretty much done? Gary is such a class act.
I read that they had about 3/4 of the follow up to "III" totally finished and in the can. That's probably why Gary is being so coy here. He knows that there ls more than just a few rough demos. When execs at Warner's came in and said that they weren't happy with what they heard and wanted the band to go back in and start from scratch. I don't know who they were producing the tracks with, but Ed got frustrated and pulled the plug on the whole thing, told Gary that it wasn't going to work out and sent him on his way. That was the beginning of Ed's deep depression and when he fell off the wagon. Such a shame too. Maybe Al and Wolfgang will find some time to dig out that stuff, have it remastered and put it out like Led Zeppelin did with "Coda". I'm sure there's some stuff with Sam and Dave that went on the cutting room floor too, that could be added as well.
@@detroitdiezel7856why couldn’t they just let the material be? Why interfere and step on Ed’s toes? He was a huge star for over 20 years at that point!!!!
@@GuitarGangsterArmi because that's what big record companies do. They want to make money and sell albums, and if they feel that one of their artists isn't producing material that will benefit the company, they'll refuse to release it. Just read up on the fights that Prince had with Warner Brothers Records and George Michael had with his label, Sony.
@@detroitdiezel7856 AND VAN HALEN IV WAS BORN!!!!! WOLFIE, AL, MIKEY, AND GARY!!!! JUST KIDDING. WOLFIE HAS TO GO ON HIS OWN OR HE'LL BE A COVER BAND PLAYING HIS DADS MUSIC FOREVER. A REALLY COOL COVER BAND, BUT A COVER BAND NONETHELESS.
I’m blessed to have seen VH with all 3 singers and enjoyed them all! Also a big Extreme fan. Gary is a great singer.
Great interview, Jeremy. I love how down to earth and wise Gary is. I sure as hell hope they don’t release the whole album on Spotify, though. These guys need to make money too…
I saw VH with Gery at the Woodlands Houston, TX, and I loved it. I am still rocking to VH III.
Thanks!
Just Interview Jeremy, I got to Meet and hang with Gary when he was in VH in Australia in 98 and he was such a great guy. My band and Vh had a photo taken together and years later I meet up with Gary again in Australia and was able to give him a copy of that photo which he loved as he had never seen it and he said he was going to ring Ed and tell him about the photo. I'm not sure if he did but I'm glad he has it now, now that Eddie has passed.
Great interview. Gary rocks!!
Eddie's 5150 studio is jam packed with recordings from what I saw in the video of Wolfie showing the studio. I'd love to hear THAT material!
When VHIII came out I was working in a Sam Goody and we had to play it on heavy rotation. I went from totally unwilling to consider it as a VH album to one of my favorites.
I actually liked VHIII and won the album from the local radio station who was giving away the CD to the third caller after playing a new cut from the album (Fire In The Hole, I believe). Gary was awesome live, and it was such a fresh experience for people like myself who were too young to see VH with Dave, and never got to hear the Dave stuff live with Sammy. I'd love to see WB or the VH camp release some of these old songs someday...
Great interview. You’re the man Jeremy !! Much respect from Australia 🇦🇺
Cheers Steve!! Alright M8!!!
They were really good live with Gary.
I was fortunate to meet Gary and Nuno and everyone in Extreme along time ago. I was hanging out with some people from Malden mass and he took me to their band practice just before they released mother don't want to go to school today and they were all so cool great guys well we were all still pretty much kids back then. I honestly think k VHIII is an awesome album I hate when people bash it and bash Gary for being in Van Halen. He in my opinion was the right singer at the wrong time. I think he said it perfectly if they had did a tour before doing the album it would have been received better. I was happy to see Gary with Van Halen at the Boston Garden it was a great show. Thank you Gary for your contribution to the world of Rock n Roll. Can't wait to get the new Extreme album
Great interview! Gary is so down to earth and a pleasure to listen to.
I just saw Extreme on the new tour and they crushed it. Go see them!
I saw them twice this month at both their London shows, on the 19th Gary and Nuno came and shook hands with all the fans in the front row, myself included
Van Halen 3 is prolly my favorite VH album tbh.
Gary is a CLASS ACT !!! Great interview Jeremy!
Gary said perfect when he says VH3 should be remixed and change the sound. ❤ Mad respect for Gary.
I never saw Van Halen live but have been a fan since Diver Down. I did see Extreme live on the 3 Sides To Every Story tour at the James L Knight Center in Miami, FL. I rode my bike to that concert from my Dad’s house. It was a great concert and it was fun being there. Good vibes for sure. They rocked the house. I have the tour book.
Gary is super cool. Met him once shortly after their first album. He was totally approachable and very down to earth. Extreme even in the club days was terrifyingly good! Tight band, professional and very confident in what they were doing. Awesome interview!
Been a Van Halen fan since the late 80s and an Extreme fan since I heard Pornograffiti soon after it came out. I saw Extreme in Sydney in '93 and saw VH on their first ever Australian tour with Gary Cherone in Newcastle in '98. Both were amazing. My favourite singer from one of my favourite bands joining another of my favourites bands of all time, what's not to love?
I totally agree with Gary that the record needs to be remixed. The lead vocals production was horrible. Gary got a raw deal on this album. I would LOVE to hear a remix. The songs are great.
Always a talented cool guy.
I saw the VH 3 tour. The night I saw them, I think Mikey and Gary stole the show. I mean EVH was great, but you could tell he was battling some stuff and Alex had his neck brace on and was recovering from his injury and they sounded great, but their energy wasn't nearly as high as Gary and Michaels. Gary sang all the VH songs great.
Gary Cherone honestly had THE best voice out of the three lead singers for VH.
However, somehow it didn’t vibe.
There’s a great video of Gary and Eddie singing Josephine on a Japanese variety type show. It’s so good.
It’s hard to find anything on RUclips with Eddie’s voice isolated. Eddie had a great voice.
Dude you are an EXCELLENT interviewer. This is the first thing I have watched with you and I am so impressed. You never get in the way of the interviewee. Such an underrated skill. Automatic subscribe!
VH III is my favorite VH album and the only one in their catalog where I don't skip a single track.
Gary is such a great guy and talent. VH is my number 1 but Extreme was always one of my faves. 🙌🙌
Mr Cherone we love you !!!!
Great interview, really enjoyed it. And I would absolutely love to hear a remixed VHIII and any new material. I’m a big fan of that album, but I agree it is a “harsh” sounding album. A remix would really bring it to the next level and get it some new fans.
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Gary is down to earth
For a long time with me, Gary was down the street.
Back in 84, I walked into gym class and to my surprise, Gary was the substitute gym teacher. I was was like WTF…. Long hair, concert short, ripped jeans, and HIM cock blocking all the girls. True story
Gary is one of the greatest front man ever. Saw him 3 weeks ago and he was fire. Met him after the show and e really just an awesome guy and gentleman.
For me the best guitar Eddie has played in this album- I think he played things never heard in previous albums. It was a great album everyone in it was in top form.
I have always loved Gary's voice and while 3 wasn't VH's best album, it was a refreshing album. The albums previous were mainly just party songs with very few deep meaning. Gary's lyrics told a story and addressed societial issues of the time. I would love to hear 3 remixed because it is a very underrated album that had so much potential. I listen to it a few times a year.
So good and Finish what you started had me concerned in the Hagar days. To be honest I completely missed VH III
Keith-We all hated that album,
Decades later,ego free and more mature yes it might sound ok.
But when it came out?nay,none of us did.
@@stevedamien638 Some of us did.
“Wisdom…to the tooth…”.
Uh really??
Gary's a class act.
Love Gary's voice & SO much talent! 💯👍👊
VHIII is one of my all time fave albums; I LOVE that one! I always LOVED Gary he can sing anything!
I don't care what anyone says that album has some great Eddie Van Halen riffs, good stuff
Thank you for telling us about the new album at the beginning, I’ve just pre-ordered it on CD AND VINYL! Great stories from Gary, he likes you. Cheers Jeremy! - R
Rock on!
Just came across this channel. Good interview. Extreme has had some really good songs. That Nuno is one underrated guitar player.
If you have the opportunity, go see Extreme live. Yes, Nuno is underrated. Gary is underestimated. Pat, the bass player, is not widely known and deserves to be. Kevin, the drummer, is the heartbeat of the band and the crowd....you can literally feel it. All four together create a real live show that is beyond belief.
My fav vh singer
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Ill never forget. I went with a concert with my cousin back in 1988 It was at a high school football field in Hudson MA . We went to see this band Extreme. never heard of em. anyway. They were second or third on the bill with other acts from the Boston area. They were great. Met all the guys and actually got Paul Gearys autograph and talked to the band a bit in passing . Pat was walking around in the crowd. Never forget that day. They were a class act then and a class act now. EXTREME!!!! oh.. Nuno was kicking ass way back then. mesmerizing. Great interview
Love the From the Inside album by Alice Cooper behind Gary....one of my all time favourites...man has gòod taste and is a class act !!
We had a whole chat about his love for Da Coop in the full interview, watch it on Spotify or listen wherever you get podcast! Look up “The Jeremy White Show” 🤘🏻
I got that bitch on vinyl…greatalbum 1978…Alice kinda shunned it because he was going thru alcohol addiction and went away and this album was born afterwards ..it’s a a concept album and all the songs are about people in a insane asylum and Bernie taupin (Elton johns lyricist)wrote it…it’s the best of Alice in my opinion.
had the great pleasure of spending some time with Gary, Eddie, Michael and Alex (and their families) in 1998, wonderful memories to look back on - and all were gracious and loved it here in NZ :)
When the interview came to touchy areas, you both handled it with respect and vulnerability. Kudos. Gary seems like a fantastic guy.