Eddie Van Halen Biography Coming

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  • DavidLeeNatra
    TOASTMASTER GENERAL
    • Jan 2004
    • 10715

    #46
    Originally posted by 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.
    Ozzy's was supposed to be an auto-bio, too...it's all put together by some author who went through documentaries and interviews...there is literally NOTHING in the book that I haven't read or seen before. If that guy does the same...fuck it...take a bit here write around some shit there...that's what I expect
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    • fraroc
      Commando
      • Jun 2012
      • 1172

      #47
      Originally posted by DavidLeeNatra
      Ozzy's was supposed to be an auto-bio, too...it's all put together by some author who went through documentaries and interviews...there is literally NOTHING in the book that I haven't read or seen before. If that guy does the same...fuck it...take a bit here write around some shit there...that's what I expect
      Ozzy has dyslexia so he wasn't able to commited to write it all by himself, so Chris Ayers basically wrote the entire book as Ozzy told his life story to him (or what he remembers from it.)
      How do you spell pretentious? S-A-M-M-Y H-A-G-A-R

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      • Seshmeister
        ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

        • Oct 2003
        • 35587

        #48
        'Write it all'?

        Get serious, he probably has no idea what is in that book even if he knows it exists...

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        • twonabomber
          formerly F A T
          ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

          • Jan 2004
          • 11289

          #49
          Originally posted by 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.
          Like Ed claiming he doesn't use a tuner but tunes the guitar to itself?
          Writing In All Proper Case Takes Extra Time, Is Confusing To Read, And Is Completely Pointless.

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          • Seshmeister
            ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

            • Oct 2003
            • 35587

            #50
            Or that he didn't use any guitar effects...

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            • Terry
              DIAMOND STATUS
              • Jan 2004
              • 12108

              #51
              The thing with Ed for me is...like, Ed's just one of those rock musicians where I just wanna hear him play. I just totally dig listening to Ed Van Halen play guitar, and I don't even wanna read about him anymore...or even read interviews given by him these days.
              While Roth's book was an excellent read, that was kind of to be expected, because Roth is a great storyteller and was always a great interview subject. Roth has led a very interesting life.
              Ed's life is obviously different from most in that he's a rock star, but as rock star lives go Ed's life wasn't really all that interesting. Bizarre and sad in the late 1990s and early-to-mid 2000s because he was fucked in the head, but I gotta say that I really didn't get much pleasure from seeing him nearly flush his life down the toilet because he couldn't control his drinking (and god knows what else he was on).
              Like most around here, I've probably read more than enough about Ed's life that it'd take a really special type of biography to tell me something I didn't know. A book that's a compilation of past articles and interviews is of little interest. But hearing him play guitar, still after all these years of listening to him, it still rocks my world...and that's enough, you know? What else do I need to know about him at this point?
              Scramby eggs and bacon.

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              • DLR Bridge
                ROCKSTAR

                • Mar 2011
                • 5479

                #52
                You're dang right Terry. If anyone on this Earth should let the music do the talking for them, it's this guy.

                I am still excited about the Van Halen Rising book as it seems that it will be as close of a chronicle to the club days explosion as we're gonna get, short of Dave, Ed and Al (and Mike) sitting down with someone and pouring out every last detail.

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                • DavidLeeNatra
                  TOASTMASTER GENERAL
                  • Jan 2004
                  • 10715

                  #53
                  Originally posted by fraroc
                  Ozzy has dyslexia so he wasn't able to commited to write it all by himself, so Chris Ayers basically wrote the entire book as Ozzy told his life story to him (or what he remembers from it.)
                  I bet Ozzy didn't spend one single minute with the guy.
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                  • Terry
                    DIAMOND STATUS
                    • Jan 2004
                    • 12108

                    #54
                    Originally posted by 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.
                    The Peter Criss book was so frank and raw...like, he put some stuff in there that I couldn't believe he had the nerve to. Things of such a personal nature that he would have easily been forgiven for not including them.
                    But that's what you want from such a book, right? There's nothing more boring than reading a rock star bio or autobio that's just a bunch of generalized gloss, or an obvious case of idol-worship by the bio author (or x amount of pages of self-love by the autobio author).
                    Criss just let it all hang out, let the chips fall where they may and didn't worry about the consequences. Keith's was like that, too.
                    Scramby eggs and bacon.

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                    • katina
                      Commando
                      • Mar 2012
                      • 1469

                      #55
                      Originally posted by Terry
                      The Peter Criss book was so frank and raw...like, he put some stuff in there that I couldn't believe he had the nerve to. Things of such a personal nature that he would have easily been forgiven for not including them.
                      But that's what you want from such a book, right? There's nothing more boring than reading a rock star bio or autobio that's just a bunch of generalized gloss, or an obvious case of idol-worship by the bio author (or x amount of pages of self-love by the autobio author).
                      Criss just let it all hang out, let the chips fall where they may and didn't worry about the consequences. Keith's was like that, too.
                      I'm glad Peter wrote that book, so brave and sincere.
                      I would like to see more rock stars write a book like that.

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                      • Diamondjimi
                        DIAMOND STATUS
                        • May 2004
                        • 12086

                        #56
                        Originally posted by ELVIS
                        Yes he does...

                        He gave us a killer album and he's still working with Dave...

                        Rock star books rank right up there with the old adage:

                        Shut up and sing!


                        And don't forget.... Log out and fuck off!
                        Trolls take heed...LOG OUT & FUCK OFF!!!

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