{"id":30675,"date":"2024-10-22T18:02:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T18:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/alex-van-halen-explains-brown-mm-rider-request-in-new-memoir-brothers\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T18:02:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T18:02:54","slug":"alex-van-halen-explains-brown-mm-rider-request-in-new-memoir-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/alex-van-halen-explains-brown-mm-rider-request-in-new-memoir-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Van Halen explains brown M&M rider request in new memoir ‘Brothers’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alex Van Halen<\/strong>\u2019s new memoir,\u00a0<\/span>Brothers<\/span><\/em>, is out now, and in it he sets the record straight about the reports that Van Halen<\/strong>\u2019s rider would demand M&M’s in their dressing rooms, minus the brown ones.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI know. We sound like jerks,\u201d he writes in the book, according to <\/span>People<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a>. \u201cLike rock star prima donnas looking to make some poor kid sit around picking through candies till he goes blind. But it wasn\u2019t about a power trip, and it wasn\u2019t about some strange aversion to the color brown.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

While Alex\u00a0writes that over the years the band \u201cplayed it up for yuks,\u201d when asked why they put that in their rider, he now says there was a very good reason for doing so.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we see brown M&M\u2019s, we know: we are not in the hands of professionals,\u201d he writes, because it meant that they\u00a0didn’t read the rider carefully. \u201cIf they didn\u2019t bother with this, what else didn\u2019t they bother with, what other corners are being cut?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Brothers<\/span><\/em>, described as Alex’s love letter to his late brother,\u00a0Eddie Van Halen<\/strong>, was released Tuesday. Alex is currently on a book tour supporting the release and will be in Northvale, New Jersey, on Tuesday, and Culver City, California, on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Harper Collins Alex Van Halen\u2019s new memoir,\u00a0Brothers, is out now, and in it he sets the record straight about the reports that Van Halen\u2019s rider would demand M&M’s in their dressing rooms, minus the brown ones. \u201cI know. We sound like jerks,\u201d he writes in the book, according to People.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\/30675"}],"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=30675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}