I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.
I definitely prefer to be in a band. There's too many solo people, and bands are suffering. There's too many great bands that have split up because somebody's got an ego, and then he goes solo.
When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.
I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.
To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.
It was an extraordinary connection, the synergy within the band. There was an area of ESP between Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and myself.
When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant.
I'm closest to the music when I'm onstage with the band, playing.
It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that's what we had in GN'R.
I can sing these tunes the rest of my life, but when you get the four of us together, it's magical onstage. That's Motley Crüe.
It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.
If you bring somebody into the band you are going to be with them a lot whether it's in the studio, on the tour bus, or at dinner every night; you want somebody you enjoy being around. You don't want an annoying guy .
