{"id":30649,"date":"2024-10-18T18:02:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T18:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/alex-van-halen-wont-be-dishing-the-dirt-in-new-memoir-brothers\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T18:02:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T18:02:37","slug":"alex-van-halen-wont-be-dishing-the-dirt-in-new-memoir-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/alex-van-halen-wont-be-dishing-the-dirt-in-new-memoir-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Van Halen won\u2019t be dishing the dirt in new memoir, ‘Brothers’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harper Collins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alex Van Halen<\/strong> wants folks to know his memoir, <\/span>Brothers<\/span><\/em>, out Tuesday, isn\u2019t a tell-all.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not about the dirt,\u201d Alex tells <\/span>Billboard<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a>. \u201cIf I start throwing dirt, it\u2019ll never end … I think it divides the audience, and we\u2019re not here to divide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, Alex says he wrote\u00a0<\/span>Brothers<\/span><\/em> to get the truth out about his brother and Van Halen<\/strong> bandmate Eddie Van Halen<\/strong>, who died in October 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI really felt like a lot of the stuff that was out there was incorrect, and it didn\u2019t do justice to the more sensitive side of Ed,\u201d he says. \u201cSo before I die I would like to at least partially set the record straight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The book doesn\u2019t go into Van Halen past the David Lee Roth<\/strong> years, with Alex saying there were \u201climitations to how big the book could be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But talking about their 1985 split with Roth, Alex says, \u201cIt was a very sad moment when that whole thing fell apart,\u201d with the mag noting that in the book he calls Roth\u2019s departure \u201cthe most disappointing thing I\u2019d experienced in my life, the thing that seemed the most wasteful and unjust. Until I lost my brother.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

As for their other singer, Sammy Hagar<\/strong>, Alex was asked why he didn\u2019t want to join Sammy and bassist\u00a0Michael Anthony<\/strong> on their recent The Best of All Worlds Tour,\u00a0during which they played Van Halen hits.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not interested. They\u2019re not doing the band justice,\u201d he says. \u201cThey can do what they want to do. That\u2019s not my business.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Alex also set the record straight about selling off his drum equipment\u00a0in June, sharing\u00a0he was just getting rid of stuff he wasn\u2019t using.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not quitting. I don\u2019t know where that came from,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ll die with sticks in my hand.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Harper Collins Alex Van Halen wants folks to know his memoir, Brothers, out Tuesday, isn\u2019t a tell-all. \u201cIt\u2019s not about the dirt,\u201d Alex tells Billboard. \u201cIf I start throwing dirt, it\u2019ll never end … I think it divides the audience, and we\u2019re not here to divide.\u201d Instead, Alex says heRead 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":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30649"}],"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=30649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}