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Van Halen: 'The Greatest Band That Ever Lived' [Highlight From Episode 344] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a highlight from a recent episode of book Don Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Pastoor, author of The Mighty Van Halen One Fans Journey,
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  Speaker 1: you talk about Mikey p who was wearing a T shirt,
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  Speaker 1: a Van Halen T shirt. I guess let's start there.
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  Speaker 1: I would go back to what eighty one, nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: two when you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so. I had just entered junior high school,
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  Speaker 2: seventh grade. We didn't have middle school back.
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  Speaker 3: Then, and you know, I reached out to him. He
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  Speaker 3: didn't get back to me.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm hoping that if he hears as he would
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  Speaker 2: because I do want to get him a copy of
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  Speaker 2: the book, because I haven't seen him since high school.
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  Speaker 2: And in high school, I even mentioned that in high school,
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  Speaker 2: we really really didn't hang around that much.
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  Speaker 3: It was more in maybe seventh grade, in a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: In eighth grade, but yeah, I think it was science
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  Speaker 2: class in seventh grade and he's, you know, he's sitting
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  Speaker 2: in the classroom.
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  Speaker 3: I described him as like the coolest looking kid.
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  Speaker 2: And I know you read the book and it's a
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  Speaker 2: quick read, you know I should say that, but there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of information in it. And one of the
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  Speaker 2: things I described with this particular scene is you know,
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  Speaker 2: he looked like a high school student in because as
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  Speaker 2: a seventh grade student in this particular.
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  Speaker 3: School, I was with the high school kids.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm walking around the hallways as like an eleven
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  Speaker 2: twelve year old with these seventeen year olds, and they
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  Speaker 2: look so heroic to me, you know that the feathered hair,
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  Speaker 2: the bindanas hanging out, the cones hanging out of the
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  Speaker 2: back of their pockets, you know, the jeans, and I thought,
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  Speaker 2: wow that you know, this kid looks like a miniature
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  Speaker 2: version of one of those kids, you know, and he
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  Speaker 2: had this. It must have been women and children first,
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  Speaker 2: because it was the iconic picture of Dave with the
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  Speaker 2: reaching his arm out and Michael Anthony, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: describe it as was it a cigarette?
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  Speaker 3: Was it marijuana? You know that he's holding between his fingers.
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  Speaker 2: It was I believe that T shirt and Dave is
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  Speaker 2: doing a split in mid air on the back.
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  Speaker 3: Of the T shirt, you know, And I was like, wow,
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  Speaker 3: what is this? You know, it looks so cool.
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  Speaker 2: Van Halen and I think the name of the title
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  Speaker 2: of the chapter is basically the quote that he gave me.
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  Speaker 3: I asked him, you know who's Van Hale
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  Speaker 2: He said, the greatest band that ever lived, and I
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  Speaker 2: never forgot it, just the way he said it with
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  Speaker 2: such confidence,