I quit piano lessons and said I want to get myself a drum kit because I like a song

glad all over by Dave Carfine and I want to play drums so I got a paper out about a

St. George drum kit for 125 bucks. My mom somehow convinced my brother to still

do something musically respectable which is take flink of guitar lessons. All I

remember is me going out and throwing the papers and coming home and he's

playing my drums and then finally I just said okay he's just better than I am.

Eddie Van Halen talking about his brother Alex failed the drummer Eddie Van Halen.

I make this fair. That is funny. I'd be out there throwing the papers. I'd come

home. He's playing my drums. That is brothers for you. That's an endearing tale.

Poor Eddie is passed now from the cancer. Shouldn't have started smoking. So

isn't the story. Didn't everybody decide so in the the early days the theory was

David Leroth was just such an asshat. Poor cute smile and Eddie couldn't deal

with his asshat in this and had to kick him out of the band. And then Sammy Haggar

comes along and he gets booted out of the band and I guess he's a jerk too and

then we find out later a lot of it from Howard Stern interviews that they're

they're okay. Eddie's the really crazy one. Eddie is like many musicians had

inflexible eccentric eccentric stubborn emotional well he had three different

guitar companies make his signature guitar and the stories about how those ended

are all you know blew up yeah and just he just you know well as it couldn't make

those kind of relationships work it would appear as speaking as a guy who's been

playing music in bands since I was 14 years old the music is the hard part

getting the music right and then the really hard part comes and that's having

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