And so it wasn’t until, I think we started playing with bands like KISS and AC/DC and doing those bigger tours, where things changed.īut to tell you the truth, I think I was visually just a less obvious person, as far as being a famous dude, then Mike Tramp might have been, or Vito. Which we were used to in New York, because we were a local band, but we didn’t expect that. The only clue we had was, it seemed like people kept coming out to the clubs, and the clubs started filling up pretty good across the country. This will blow people’s minds if they think about it, and call back home and check in with my family or whoever and they’d say, “Oh my God, you guys are on TV all the time.” And we had no idea. So I put a quarter in the phone, outside of the hotel. And so a lot of them didn’t have cable, and so I had no idea. It was comfortable, it was a decent-sized RV, but we would stay at pretty cheap hotels, because we didn’t want to really spend that much money on travelling at this point, and we’d stay at hotels and there would be rabbit ears on the TV. And certainly cable TV was a luxury, so when we hit the road, when we first started out, even after we signed to Atlantic, I think one of the first tours we did was across the country, and we were in an RV, and we had our sound man driving it. We didn’t have cell phones, and computers, and certainly not like we do know. “I had no idea it was going on at that time. In terms of dealing as a young musician with all of the fame and fortune that White Lion achieved back in the mid ’80s to early ’90s, Lomenzo indicated (with slight edits):
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