Skid Row’s Dave ”Snake” Sabo had a conversation with Tulsa Music Stream where he shared the piece of advice he has got from Jon Bon Jovi and iconic manager, Doc McGhee.
About this, Sabo said:
“As a band, (McGhee) told us very early on that your band has to be representative of who you truly are. Don’t be somebody else’s band, be who you truly are. Find your true self and that’s your band.
”And that was the advice given to us by him, by Jon Bon Jovi as well. Because you want to be all things to everyone when you’re first starting out, ‘I want to be Randy Rhoads, I want to be Eddie Van Halen, I want to be Joe Perry, I want to be Michael Schenker, I want to be Ace Frehley, I want to be Kiss, I want to be Aerosmith. […]
“The trick is to take all of those things and to make them your own. And I know it’s been said a bazillion times but it’s really true.
”You take what other people have done, people that you admire, songs that you love…and I was lucky enough to have a great musical education growing up.”