Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock
Format: kindle
ASIN: B003YRJD4U
Publish date: March 15th 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
The "Van Hagar" version of Van Halen is my favorite, but this book wasn't as good as I thought it would be. Bought it for DH who breezed through it (I love to see him read! He does it so seldom!), but I had a little more trouble with it. Good enough read, just not what I expected, I guess.
Red comes off like a long, rambling conversation in a bar, with Hagar holding court. Everything from his poorer than dirt childhood in Fontana, California to his rocky relationships with his first wife, his Montrose bandmates, and later on the Van Halen brothers, is relayed in choppy sentences that ...
I have to be honest, this book bored me up until Sam speaks of joining Van Halen.I really didn't care about how he earned his first ten cents, how he met neighbours to jam with, and his idiotic girlfriend who would later become his first wife. I just didn't care. Why? Because I'm a Van Halen fan....
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