{"id":30568,"date":"2024-10-09T18:02:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T18:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/alex-van-halen-talks-to-brother-eddie-van-halen-in-audio-excerpt-from-his-memoir-brothers\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T18:02:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T18:02:37","slug":"alex-van-halen-talks-to-brother-eddie-van-halen-in-audio-excerpt-from-his-memoir-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/alex-van-halen-talks-to-brother-eddie-van-halen-in-audio-excerpt-from-his-memoir-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Van Halen talks to brother Eddie Van Halen in audio excerpt from his memoir, ‘Brothers’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Van Halen<\/strong> fans are getting their first preview of Alex Van Halen<\/strong>\u2019s upcoming memoir,\u00a0<\/span>Brothers<\/span><\/em>, with a\u00a04 1\/2-minute audio sample shared on<\/span> Spotify<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In\u00a0a clip titled \u201cOverture,\u201d Alex talks\u00a0to and about his late brother and Van Halen bandmate,\u00a0Eddie Van Halen<\/strong>, sharing, \u201cWithout my brother I would not be … there is a bond and unconditional love very few people ever experience in their lifetime.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMusic was our heart and soul. That’s what we did, that’s what we loved, that’s what we enjoyed and that’s what we were good at,\u201d he says. \u201cIt’s also the thing that made us as close as two brothers can be. We were connected in every way – genetically, artistically, financially, emotionally and though neither of us stuck with Catholicism, I’m going to go ahead and say spiritually.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alex shares that Eddie was \u201cmore introverted, more impressionable and more sensitive\u201d than him, noting that sensitivity made Eddie a \u201cbrilliant musician … there is only one Edward Van Halen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

“Since you\u2019ve been gone, I catch myself talking to you. Yelling at you, in my head or sometimes out loud. I still have trouble believing you’re gone and probably for me, you never will be,” he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Outliving my little brother? This just wasn’t the plan,\u201d he concludes. \u201cAs the older brother, I was supposed to die first. Same as always, Ed … butting in line.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Brothers<\/span><\/em> is due out Oct. 22. The audiobook features the song “Unfinished,” written by Alex and Eddie and described as \u201cthe last piece of music they wrote together.”<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alex will promote the book with a three-city book tour\u00a0kicking off Oct. 21 in New York, followed by Oct. 22 in New Jersey and Oct. 24 in Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harper Collins Van Halen fans are getting their first preview of Alex Van Halen\u2019s upcoming memoir,\u00a0Brothers, with a\u00a04 1\/2-minute audio sample shared on Spotify. In\u00a0a clip titled \u201cOverture,\u201d Alex talks\u00a0to and about his late brother and Van Halen bandmate,\u00a0Eddie Van Halen, sharing, \u201cWithout my brother I would not be …Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}