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Later that year Lane and Brown got divorced. Argumentative and controlling, especially when he was drinking, Lane frequently fought with his bandmates about their image and musical direction. He put out a power-pop solo album Back Down to One , which tanked in , and entered rehab for alcohol abuse that same year.

He left Warrant in due to personal and creative differences and, as a solo artist, dropped off the Bad Boys of Metal tour, which also featured Kevin DuBrow, Steven Adler and Bang Tango, in August , after eight shows. During the show he talked about his alcohol addiction, and viewers seemed to sympathize with his struggle. Even so, his musical career failed to reignite.

Lane made several guest appearances on albums by Liberty and Justice and Saints of the Underground in and , respectively, and in he filled in for vocalist Jack Russell on a tour for Great White. Lane died quietly and tragically. The former catapulted Warrant to the top of the hard-rock heap with the No. They owed much of their success to Lane, who had already begun establishing himself as a whip-smart songwriter and powerhouse singer.

Lane's creative development would continue on Cherry Pie — though it was nearly obscured by the album's greatest commercial achievement. Warrant originally planned to call their sophomore LP Uncle Tom's Cabin and lead with the track of the same name, a muscular, ominous hard rocker about two murderous police officers. But shortly before the record hit shelves, Columbia Records phoned Lane and said they didn't hear a single. In response, Lane scribbled the lyrics to "Cherry Pie" on a napkin in 15 minutes — and unwittingly altered the course of his life forever.

The song fattened everybody's coffers and cemented Warrant's superstar status at the turn of the decade, but it also overshadowed the album's objectively much better songs: horndog hard rockers "Sure Feels Good to Me" and "Love in Stereo"; brooding, mid-tempo stompers "Song and Dance Man" and "Mr.

Rainmaker"; and the heartrending piano ballad "I Saw Red," inspired by Lane walking in on his then-girlfriend in bed with his best friend, which prompted a nervous breakdown that delayed the release of Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich and perhaps contributed to his future struggles with booze and mercurial behavior.

As the grunge storm reached a fever pitch, Warrant attempted a commercial hat trick with 's Dog Eat Dog, a no-frills, hard-rock opus running the gamut from pseudo-speed metal "Inside Out" to post-apocalyptic sci-fi balladry "April ".

It was a stunning artistic achievement that admirably went gold, but the writing was — literally — on the wall: Warrant's time in the sun was over. With his stardom evaporating before his eyes, Lane left Warrant in to pursue an abortive solo career, though he returned six months later and the band released the grunge-influenced Ultraphobic in The album failed to scrape the Billboard , as did 's Belly to Belly and the covers album Under the Influence , the last two Warrant records to feature Lane.

Who says you can't teach people to embrace new music? Not me. I'm thankful for it. Asked if he ever feels "the spirit of Jani Lane " out there when he is singing Jani 's songs, Robert said: "He and I were friends. Of course, there's a legacy of songs that I do my absolutely damndest to faithfully pay tribute to my friend and what fans remember.

That's why the name of the band ain't gonna change, playing those songs ain't gonna change. I embrace the fact, and I was a fan first anyway, and a friend. So the fact that I get to do this — coolest job in the world for me. I was in the band for three and a half years before he passed.

Like I said, he and I were friends. He was probably not as comfortable with it because of his own personal reasons, but the guy couldn't keep himself heathy, and nobody in the band wanted to have him die on the road. It was five cylinders and only four cylinders working.