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Originally Posted by Bowser
About half way through Sammy Hagar's Red. It's interesting, but not really well written. Lots of run on thoughts and quick sentences. Cool look behind the scenes, though.
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Ok, Sammy is a pretty interesting guy. I didn't realize how much he had accomplished outside of his rock life. Obviously he struck it big with Cabo Wabo, but he's quite the businessman. He pulls no punches, even with himself. He gives a ton of disclosure on how he partied it up as a rocker, and how it cost him.
The Van Halen segments were pretty interesting. It's obvious that there is a ton of animosity still between him and the brothers. The compliments he pays them feel almost begrudging, but he does give them, and acknowledge how much they accomplished while together. The official reason as to why Vah Nalen broke up, according to Sammy, is that Eddie had gotten almost paranoid for his need to control the group, and the Van Halen brothers hired a new manager that Sam wanted nothing to do with to manage just Eddie and Alex. This guy came up with the idea of a Van Halen Greatest Hits CD, with two new tracks from both Sammy and Roth on it. The brothers put the whole thing together behind his back as one of his kids was being born, and gave him the "you're either in or out" speech as they were ready to go with the four new tracks. He told them to go get ****ed, and the rest is history.