Interview: Dave Sabo on How Skid Row’s “I Remember You” Became Their Biggest Hit

Professor of Rock · Jan 11, 2023 · 21m

Coming up the last great power Ballad of the 80s, I Remember You by Skid Row. And it almost didn’t make it onto the record because the band thought it was just okay. In fact, their exact thinking is that it was cheesy even though it rocked harder than most ballads… Well, their label and management both felt it would be a smash as did the band’s friend John Bon Jovi. So Dave the Snake Sabo, Rachel Bolan, Sebastian Back, and the band recorded it. Coming up the founder, guitarist, and co-writer Dave Sabo shares the first-hand account of one of the most chosen songs for the prom with one of the…