Raven Quotes

We don't really know how much of an influence we made in America since we're not here much. But I was just talking to one of the guys in Galactic Cowboys and he was telling me what an impact we had on a lot of these bands, like Flotsam And Jetsam, apparently they used to play Raven cover songs. People have told me Billy Sheehan is a big fan of ours, as well as the guys in Skid Row and Phil from Pantera.
John Gallagher

We weren't really trying for that. We used to play with the punks when we were kids...we opened for The Stranglers in '77. We've actually been together since '74. We used to play clubs and it was wall to wall punks, there were very few metal bands at the time...you had Priest, Motorhead, and Sabbath, and Iron Maiden and Saxon were just starting up. We all played the same clubs.
John Gallagher

With any "new" form of music, the originators are usually good bands that have good music and good ideas, like Nirvana. But then you get all the followers and wannabes, bands like Silverchair, etc...and that really sucks.
John Gallagher