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Episode Transcript
Here's a highlight from a recent episode of book Don Rock.
Michael Pastoor, author of The Mighty Van Halen One Fans Journey,
you talk about Mikey p who was wearing a T shirt,
a Van Halen T shirt. I guess let's start there.
I would go back to what eighty one, nineteen eighty
two when you.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, it was so. I had just entered junior high school,
seventh grade. We didn't have middle school back.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Then, and you know, I reached out to him. He
didn't get back to me.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
And I'm hoping that if he hears as he would
because I do want to get him a copy of
the book, because I haven't seen him since high school.
And in high school, I even mentioned that in high school,
we really really didn't hang around that much.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It was more in maybe seventh grade, in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
In eighth grade, but yeah, I think it was science
class in seventh grade and he's, you know, he's sitting
in the classroom.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I described him as like the coolest looking kid.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And I know you read the book and it's a
quick read, you know I should say that, but there's
a lot of information in it. And one of the
things I described with this particular scene is you know,
he looked like a high school student in because as
a seventh grade student in this particular.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
School, I was with the high school kids.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
So I'm walking around the hallways as like an eleven
twelve year old with these seventeen year olds, and they
look so heroic to me, you know that the feathered hair,
the bindanas hanging out, the cones hanging out of the
back of their pockets, you know, the jeans, and I thought,
wow that you know, this kid looks like a miniature
version of one of those kids, you know, and he
(01:26):
had this. It must have been women and children first,
because it was the iconic picture of Dave with the
reaching his arm out and Michael Anthony, you know, I
describe it as was it a cigarette?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Was it marijuana? You know that he's holding between his fingers.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It was I believe that T shirt and Dave is
doing a split in mid air on the back.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Of the T shirt, you know, And I was like, wow,
what is this? You know, it looks so cool.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Van Halen and I think the name of the title
of the chapter is basically the quote that he gave me.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I asked him, you know who's Van Hale
Speaker 2 (02:00):
He said, the greatest band that ever lived, and I
never forgot it, just the way he said it with
such confidence,
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