Eddie Van Halen Biography Coming

[VHscraps]

Didn't you just say "Cherone" or am I seeing things ...!

[DLR Bridge]

...and I thought it was Eddie "fucking" Van Halen? What was on that shirt they sold during either last Hagar or Cherone tour? I thought it was really stupid and just a huge cock stroke for Eddies ego.

True, it was, but it was also a spoof on this...

[Kristy]

I think you might be being sarcastic here, but this is 100% true. I am happier with the current shape of Van Halen than I have been since 5150.

Whatever you say Mediocre Man

[DLR Bridge]

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/inter...e_charvel.html

It's an interview with Wayne Charvel that Rosen did as part of his research for the book. He prefaces the interview with the story of the agreement he had with EVH to write the book, but says in the end that after years, and after speaking to a lot of people, Eddie just didn't want to sit down and talk. He thought that the time for a biography would be after he had quit playing / died, or similar ...

That's a fantastic read. Interesting tales of young Ed, Mike and Dave, too! The Tommy Bolan story was great also. Thanks for that Scraps!

[binnie]

The author is in his late 30s and I don't know if he has any agreement with Eddie or not.

I'm not sure how reliable he would be anyway...

He is a very, very good writer. This will be an excellent biography - his bio of Dave Grohl is excellent.

I'm really stoked about this, it could be very good.

[jhale667]

That's a fantastic read. Interesting tales of young Ed, Mike and Dave, too! The Tommy Bolan story was great also. Thanks for that Scraps!

Interesting reading about the fallout between Wayne Charvel and Grover Jackson, too. I've never met Wayne, but Grover seems nice enough...

[Zing!]

I'll probably read it, but I'll be damned if I'm reading the Ed/Al drums/guitar newspaper swap story again.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

I'll probably read it, but I'll be damned if I'm reading the Ed/Al drums/guitar newspaper swap story again.

That's my concern as well. Without Ed's input, I fear it's just going to be just another rehashing of the same 'ol stories.....

[DLR Bridge]

Who knows. Maybe the paper route story will be fleshed out to include long pondered details like, just what paper was it? How many customers were there? Did he deliver via bike or foot? Did the customers tip well? How about around the holidays?

[sonrisa salvaje]

Until Ed wants to sit down and be honest with someone there really isn't a point.

[Zing!]

Until Ed wants to sit down and be honest with someone there really isn't a point.

It took him 50+ years just to be honest with himself!

[jacksmar]

Ed's bio better have at least one statement along the lines that every guitar player would sell his first piece of ass to be 1/4 as talented as Eddie Van Halen.

Eddie may not have been the reason anyone picked up the guitar but he's definitely the reason I wanted to play better.

I don't care about the side personal bullshit.

Eddie Van Halen on stage solo is as good as the guitar gets.

[Nickdfresh]

I was not being sarcastic...

ADKOT was better than I expected...

Tattoo still sucks though...

But he's got you on his elbow...

[DavidLeeNatra]

we'll see...I hope it's not the usual collection of information we all have from countless interviews and what have you...like the Ozzy bio...total piece of shit, without ANYTHING new. Lemmy's was readable, Keef's was fantastic and the last one I read from Peter Criss was also a very good read.

[DLR Bridge]

Keef and Peter Criss wrote auto-biographies. This guy is doing an Ed bio, so it's most definitely going to be a lot of what we already know. Hopefully, he's able to dig up some unknown stuff.