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The first definitive biography of the ultimate American rock band

How did a pair of little Dutch boys trained in classical music grow up to become the nucleus of the most popular heavy metal band of all time? What's the secret behind Eddie Van Halen's incredible fast and furious guitar solos? What makes David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar so wacky? And, are all those stories about groupies, booze bashes, and contract riders true? The naked truth is laid bare in Everybody Wants Some--the real-life story of a rock 'n' roll fantasy come true.
INTRODUCTION: LEARNING TO PLAY "ERUPTION" 1

PART I RUNNIN’ WITH THE DEVIL 3

1 The Immigrant Song 7

2 Rats in the Cellar 19

3 Hotel California 31

4 Bat out of Hell 40

5 Back in the Saddle 51

6 Girls on Film 65

7 Jukebox Heroes 76

8 Kings of Rock 94

9 Road to Nowhere 112

PART II TOP OF THE WORLD 121

10 It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine) 125

11 Roll with It 135

12 Nothing’s Shocking 148

13 Loveless 163

14 Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 180

15 Ill Communication 198

PART I I I WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD TIMES GONE? 211

16 No Way Out 215

17 Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground 231

18 Get the Party Started 242

19 A Grand Don’t Come for Free 254

20 All the Right Reasons 269

ENCORE: VAN HALEN IV 277

BONUS TRACKS

A Eddie Van Halen Extended Discography 285

B Holy Grails: Unreleased Van Halen Rarities 287

C Pictures on the Silver Screen: Van Halen in the Movies 290

D The Menu: The Covers Band from Pasadena 292

E Uncovered: Van Halen Tribute Bands 294

F Van Hagar for Dummies 297

LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE HERE TONIGHT! 299

INDEX 301

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Musique

Histoire de la musique

Van Halen

Music

Edward Van Halen

Rock

David Lee Roth

Sammy Hagar

Everybody Wants Some

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Eddie Van Halen

Ian Christie

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	13 mai 2009
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9780470536186
Langue	English

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Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Praise
Dedication
Introduction

PART I - RUNNIN’ WITH THE DEVIL

Chapter 1 - THE IMMIGRANT SONG
Chapter 2 - RATS IN THE CELLAR
Chapter 3 - HOTEL CALIFORNIA
Chapter 4 - BAT OUT OF HELL
Chapter 5 - BACK IN THE SADDLE
Chapter 6 - GIRLS ON FILM
Chapter 7 - JUKEBOX HEROES
Chapter 8 - KINGS OF ROCK
Chapter 9 - ROAD TO NOWHERE

PART II - TOP OF THE WORLD
Chapter 10 - IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT (AND I FEEL FINE)
Chapter 11 - ROLL WITH IT
Chapter 12 - NOTHING’S SHOCKING
Chapter 13 - LOVELESS
Chapter 14 - MELON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS
Chapter 15 - ILL COMMUNICATION

PART III - WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD TIMES GONE?
Chapter 16 - NO WAY OUT
Chapter 17 - DEAD LEAVES AND THE DIRTY GROUND
Chapter 18 - GET THE PARTY STARTED
Chapter 19 - A GRAND DON’T COME FOR FREE
Chapter 20 - ALL THE RIGHT REASONS

Encore
Second Encore
Second Encore
BONUS TRACK A
BONUS TRACK B
BONUS TRACK C
BONUS TRACK D
BONUS TRACK E
BONUS TRACK F
LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE HERE TONIGHT!
INDEX

Copyright © 2007, 2008 by Ian Christe. All rights reserved

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Christe, Ian, date.
Everybody wants some : the Van Halen saga / Ian Christe.
p. cm.
Originally published: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Discography: p. (296).
eISBN : 978-0-470-53618-6
1. Van Halen (Musical group) 2. Rock musicians—United States. I. Title.
ML421.V36C47 2008
782.42166092’2—dc22
2008016845

I still think that, whatever people say, you’ve got to read the book.

—Edward Van Halen on how to do things right
For Eugenia Van Halen, Sibyl Roth, Gladys Hagar, Carol Sobolewski, Josephine Cherone, and Valerie Bertinelli

And especially Carole Ann Bailey Christe, 1946-2006
INTRODUCTION
LEARNING TO PLAY “ERUPTION”
I didn’t think it would be fair to write this book without learning how to play “Eruption,” getting a good idea of the mental and manual speed of Eddie Van Halen plus appreciating how much work and practice goes into playing, if not developing, his style. Basically, I wanted to write this epic story about Van Halen with at least a tourist’s understanding of life in the land of big rock.
Like a lot of people, the first time I heard the guitar solo as a kid it sounded blatantly unplayable. I thought it was some kind of special effect, like a Star Wars laser blast, or a hi-tech synthesizer, or some combination of tape editing and video-game noises. That misconception only grew stronger with each successive challenge over the years—if no guitar hero could do better than “Eruption,” then it was virtually untouchable. Anyone who could play even a little piece of it—they were obviously gifted beyond belief.
If Eddie Van Halen was the best guitarist ever, the next logical position to take was not to care. Since the minions throwing themselves on the sword of “Eruption” were mostly empty sounding, as a heavy metal punk teenager it made sense to me not to bother. “Eruption” became the calling card of a certain kind of douche bag who hangs around guitar stores waiting to be discovered, bullying younger players in the meantime.
But ten years passed and there was “Eruption,” still retaining its magic, a brief postcard from some endless freak-out by Van Halen back in 1978, sounding miraculously fast and furious. On a whim, I leafed through a book of Van Halen sheet music and looked over “Eruption.” That’s when I realized it was even possible to play. I knew I could play the notes fast enough, but I had no clue where to begin—it seemed like trying to shake hands with the Tasmanian Devil. Guitar tablature uses an arcane system of notation to indicate finger slides, trills, and bent strings—and “Eruption” pretty much uses every trick in the book.
I feel much better writing this book after learning that “Eruption” was a carefully composed collection of techniques, not an off-the-cuff improvisation. Sitting down at home with my Jackson on my knee, I worked through the song, amazed with each tiny portion that I could extract from the version on Van Halen . When I finally pieced it all together after a few days work, it took me about twelve minutes to Eddie’s 90-second journey from razor blues to neoclassical tapping to outer space.
The glowing finger-tapping section turned out to be one of the simplest parts, as it’s all played on one guitar string. Memorizing the rapid-fire chord progressions behind all those notes, I’m sorry to say, took much longer. My progress was only hindered when I discovered over a thousand videos on YouTube of young kids blazing through the supposedly insurmountable “Eruption”—it must be the second most popular genre of video, next to clips of people falling off skateboards and animals biting people’s crotches.
I finally got “Eruption” under control, however, and feels great. I’ve applied the skills and shortcuts to my own playing—unlike the brilliant Eddie, I should add, who was summarizing all the little things he did to make regular songs sound special. I want to say the reason nobody has ever attempted to write this book before is there was never a writer who could play “Eruption.” Or maybe they all died trying.
PART I
RUNNIN’ WITH THE DEVIL
THE ROTHOZOIC ERA, 1950-1985

May 8, 1953: Alexander Arthur van Halen born in Holland.
October 10, 1953: David Lee Roth born in Bloomington, Indiana.
June 20, 1954: Michael Anthony Sobolewski born in Chicago, Illinios.
January 26, 1955: Edward Lodwijk van Halen born in Holland.
Winter 1962: Jan van Halen emigrates with his family to California.
1967: Edward gets $100 Teisco Del Ray guitar from Sears.
1971: Alex and Eddie Van Halen form the Trojan Rubber Company.
Autumn 1973: David Lee Roth joins the Van Halen brothers in Mammoth.
Spring 1974: Mike Sobolewski joins Van Halen, becomes Michael Anthony.
May 1976: Gene Simmons “discovers” Van Halen at the Starwood, finances unsuccessful demo tape.
May 1977: Ted Templeman rediscovers Van Halen, signs band to Warner Bros.
February 10, 1978: Release of Van Halen; leading to tours with Journey, then Black Sabbath.
October 10, 1978: Van Halen goes platinum.
March 23, 1979: Release of Van Halen II; first headlining tour runs through October.
March 26, 1980: Release of Women and Children First.
August 29, 1980: Eddie Van Halen meets Valerie Bertinelli.
April 11, 1981: Eddie marries Valerie.
April 29, 1981: Release of Fair Warning.
April 14, 1982: Release of Diver Down.
May 29, 1983: Van Halen paid $1.5 million to play for four hundred thousand people at US Festival ’83.
January 4, 1984: Release of 1984, featuring band’s first number 1 single, “Jump.”
September 2, 1984: Final show by classic lineup in Nuremberg, Germany.
December 31, 1984: David Lee Roth releases Crazy from the Heat.
April 1985: David Lee Roth exits Van Halen.
1
THE IMMIGRANT SONG
Like the stories of other great Americans from Henry Ford to Walt Disney to Fievel the Mouse, the saga of Van Halen begins in an ancient land, far from the United States and its constant supply of hot water and electricity. As a narrator would say in the old movies: Among the windmills, tulips, and wooden shoes of lovely Amsterdam, Holland, there once lived a kindly musician named Jan van Halen.
Born in 1920, van Halen played saxophone and clarinet everywhere, from political events to radio orchestras to circus tents. During World War II, he was reportedly captured while fighting the Nazis, and forced to tour Germany as a prisoner playing propaganda music for the hated Third Reich. When he was released after the war, he traveled to Indonesia, where he met and fell in love with an Indonesian beauty, Eugenia van Beers.