It was kinda funny, but I didn't like "Dream On" and hated my playing on it. It was a simple song and I could've done better if I'd hung around the studio a little longer. But I let it go by. Maybe I was pissed at Steven that day. Then I'd hear the song on the radio and cringe. As big as the song was, I hated it. We were a hard rock band and now we owed our reputation to a slow song. But that's the way things were then. A couple years ago, you had to look like Guns N' Roses. Ten years before that, you had to have hair like Bon Jovi. In 1973, you had to get your songs on the radio and the only way a band like us got on the radio was by having a ballad. - Walk This Way, page 198.
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