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"Good band, even better book...Essential reading for fans." (Record Collector, December 2007)
"Respect is due to author Ian Christe. His book is perfectly pitched, capturing both the flamboyant excitement and inherent absurdity..." (Classic Rock UK, February 2008) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Classic Rock UK, February 2008
"Respect is due to author Ian Christe. His book is perfectly pitched, capturing both the flamboyant excitement and inherent absurdity..."
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Not a bad book if you just want to know what happened, when and where, but lacking somewhat when it comes to the why. No access to the band members themselves, no new insights, and after Roth leaves in 1984 the following years a not given the same amount of detail (rightly so of course if you hate Van Hager lol) but doesnt give a balanced history. Just buy Crazy From the Heat by DLR instead.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Disappointing would be the word I'd use to describe this book. I've read quite a few of the raucous accounts of top rock bands & up to this point it's a genre which I've found shocking, entertaining & funny in equal measures. This book somehow manages to circumvent what must have been/was one of the biggest blowouts in the history of stadium rock & somehow leaves you feeling that someone has ripped a number of pages out of the book before you started reading.
I don't normally review a product unless I consider it a 5 star item, but I was so looking forward to reading this book & finished it feeling so short changed that I felt compelled to change my policy
I don't normally review a product unless I consider it a 5 star item, but I was so looking forward to reading this book & finished it feeling so short changed that I felt compelled to change my policy
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
After reading this book I felt rather disappointed, I feel as if the author has missed the chance to really tell the story of this legendary band!
The book itself is just a series of quotes plucked from the likes of Guitar World and The Inside (VH's short lived fan magazine) padded out with minimal facts that most passing Van Halen fans would already know. The problem with this book is really that it didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know, which for me was pretty poor. I've been a fan since the early 80's and have followed the band closely during their career, so I'm well aware of the highs and lows of the band members, but Christie does nothing more than skim the surface of Eddie's repeated battles with addiction. The recording of each album and subsequent tours are little more than footnotes, when really I would have liked him to explore the recording process a little more and delve deeper into the life on the road of one of rock's truly excessive bands!
One of my other niggles is that Christie pays far too much attention to David Lee Roth's, patchy at best, solo career after leaving Van Halen! He pays much less attention to Sammy Hagar's career, which is just shameful as Hagar was in Van Halen for just as long as Roth, OK the purists may counter that Roth was the true VH frontman, but, Hagar was there no matter if you like him or not!
The bottom line though, is this is another missed opportunity and we are still waiting on the definitive history of this great band! One were the author will actually get to speak with band members and get their take on what actually happened during their career, rather than tacking it together!
The book itself is just a series of quotes plucked from the likes of Guitar World and The Inside (VH's short lived fan magazine) padded out with minimal facts that most passing Van Halen fans would already know. The problem with this book is really that it didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know, which for me was pretty poor. I've been a fan since the early 80's and have followed the band closely during their career, so I'm well aware of the highs and lows of the band members, but Christie does nothing more than skim the surface of Eddie's repeated battles with addiction. The recording of each album and subsequent tours are little more than footnotes, when really I would have liked him to explore the recording process a little more and delve deeper into the life on the road of one of rock's truly excessive bands!
One of my other niggles is that Christie pays far too much attention to David Lee Roth's, patchy at best, solo career after leaving Van Halen! He pays much less attention to Sammy Hagar's career, which is just shameful as Hagar was in Van Halen for just as long as Roth, OK the purists may counter that Roth was the true VH frontman, but, Hagar was there no matter if you like him or not!
The bottom line though, is this is another missed opportunity and we are still waiting on the definitive history of this great band! One were the author will actually get to speak with band members and get their take on what actually happened during their career, rather than tacking it together!
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