Alex & Edward Van Halen 'Unfinished' from the upcoming Audio Book 'Brothers' @AVHtribute

"Brothers"
By Alex Van Halen
On Sale: October 22, 2024
$32.00 / $32.00
ISBN: 9780063265707
ISBN 10: 0063265702
Imprint: Harper
On Sale: October 22, 2024
Pages: 240 pages
List Price: $32.00
BISAC1: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Music
BISAC2: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Entertainment & Performing Arts
BISAC3: MUSIC: Genres & Styles / Rock
Official Publisher: Harper Collins/ News Corp.

Notes:
In this intimate and open account—nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever read—Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate.

Told with acclaimed New Yorker writer Ariel Levy Brothers is seventy-year-old drummer Alex Van Halen’s love letter to his younger brother, Edward, (Maybe “Ed,” but never “Eddie”), written while still mourning his untimely death.

In his rough yet sweet voice, Alex recounts the brothers’ childhood, first in the Netherlands and then in working class Pasadena, California, with an itinerant musician father and a very proper Indonesian-born mother—the kind of mom who admonished her boys to “always wear a suit” no matter how famous they became—a woman who was both proud and practical, nonchalant about taking a doggie bag from a star-studded dinner. He also shares tales of musical politics, infighting, and plenty of bad-boy behavior. But mostly his is a story of brotherhood, music, and enduring love.

"I was with him from day one,” Alex writes. “We shared the experience of coming to this country and figuring out how to fit in. We shared a record player, an 800 square foot house, a mom and dad, and a work ethic. Later, we shared the back of a tour bus, alcoholism, the experience of becoming famous, of becoming fathers and uncles, and of spending more hours in the studio than I’ve spent doing anything else in this life. We shared a depth of understanding that most people can only hope to achieve in a lifetime."

There has never been an accurate account of them or the band, and Alex wants to set the record straight on Edward’s life and death.

Brothers includes never-before-seen photos from the author’s private archives.

[fortunatomartino]

Sounds like the beginning of a love song

[bruceniblett]

Cool. That one opening riff reminds me of Tim and Eric cat. Forgot. But Eddie is the king of rock guitar.

[digitalbobby]

I hope they have enough in the VH vault to make an instrumental tribute album.

[TheChosen]

You can feel what Al and Ed are saying through this gorgeous sound 😢
As I leave this earth and ascend into Heaven this song shall play along with all my memories 😊

[Scopay]

The melody is somewhere between “Love Walks In “ and “Respect The Wind”.

[douglasmcclure]

There, s that snare same sound and time for what 40 yrs holy s

[toddprater]

If this songs “between us two” with Sammy and Al took Sammy’s vocals off, shame on him… Sammy said there’s an unreleased song from the twister soundtrack era named this… Al don’t wanna pay Sammy royalties for the lyrics.. we’d love to hear the finished song..

[frankwithrow]

Sounds like Ed might have been using a sustsiniac