BROTHERS

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 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 mum 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 behaviour 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 America 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 p